So what does Mayor Newsom, the poster boy for arrogance among
gay marriage advocates, do in the middle of this campaign to
deceive California voters about the real consequences of gay
marriage?
Why, he presides over a lesbian teacher's wedding ceremony at
City Hall, to which public school children are bused, at taxpayer
expense, during school hours. (Newsom claims he wasn't aware of
that fact when he agreed to preside.)
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.
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