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Comment on: The Chair

California Teachers Association Supports Gay Marriage & Opposes Prop. 8

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CTA and Prop 8

Tearing down the married mother-father family will give public schools more power over students, and that is what the CTA wants. Teachers themselves, however, will have an easier time doing their job the stronger the Californian family.

"That is a legal concept that depends on the compared parties being similarly situated."

That is so true and something that is forgotten in all of this. For example, just because I get a group of people together (let's say, shoe sniffers) does NOT mean we can declare ourselves a nonprofit organization under the law. We need to meet the criteria. If the shoe sniffer lobby was strong enough, though, we could convince enough judges that we were being denial "equal treatment" because we were shoe sniffers, even though we were free to form real non-profit organizations.

http://walrus.blogtownhall.com/2008/07/23/neutering_marriag e_devalues_and_discourages_marriage.thtml

Interesting point, Ken

I hadn't thought much about the shift-in-power aspect. It rings true. The family is the primary bulwark against all kinds of potential state mischief. Still, I think long-term fertility will decline even more than it already has. More power over less children.