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Wednesday, October 15, 2008
Maggie Gallagher :: Townhall.com Columnist
Imposing San Francisco Values On First-Graders
by Maggie Gallagher
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That's right. Taxpayers paid for first-graders to take time from reading, writing and 'rithmetic to strew rose petals after a lesbian marriage ceremony -- no doubt in the belief that there was something educational about witnessing a historic civil rights victory the courts have endorsed as the law of the land.

Let me be clear about one thing: I know many, many gay people who have no truck with the arrogance of so many leaders of the gay marriage movement in California (see for example www.gaypatriot.net). I even know some gay people (though, not very many) who think marriage means a husband and wife, and that the California solution struck down by the courts -- civil unions for gay couples, marriage remains marriage -- is common sense, not some kind of gross injustice motivated by seething hatred to gay folks.

If Prop 8 loses, expect a lot more public schools to join Mayor Newsom's crusade to promote gay marriage, "whether you like it or not."

People who think that's a good thing should have the decency to stand up before California voters and say so, instead of pretending it's not going to happen.

It already has.


COPYRIGHT 2008 MAGGIE GALLAGHER Distributed by Universal Press Syndicate

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Maggie Gallagher is a nationally syndicated columnist, a leading voice in the new marriage movement and co-author of The Case for Marriage: Why Married People Are Happier, Healthier, and Better Off Financially.

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Since the first graders and their parents are San Franciscans, what values should they be raised with?

Where conservatives should be on prop 69
I'm going to assume that the TH readers who weighed in against "Prop. 69" are either libertarians or liberals, but not genuine conservatives. Genuine conservatives should have no problem with legislating Biblical morality. All of the arguments against such legislation came originally from the liberal playbook anyway.

American conservatism is essentially religious conservatism. Consider the following definition of conservatism from "American Conservatism
An Encyclopedia" ISI, 2000. [For those of you who don't know--although you should--ISI is the Intercollegiate Studies Institute, a conservative educational organization founded in 1953.

Here's the definition, found on p. 180: "Conservatism is a philosophy that seeks to maintain and enrich societies charactrerized by respect for inherited institutions, beliefs and practices, in which individuals develop good character by cooperating with one another in primary, local associations such as families, churches and social groups aimed at furthering the common good in a manner pleasing to God."
In the Bible God makes his views on gays quite clear--or so you religious authorities on the Right tell me--so what is "pleasing to God" just happens to coincide with the conservative agenda.
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