The Baytown Bulletin Board

California's Prop. 8 vital for school children
Charlie Butts and Jody Brown - OneNewsNow - 7/31/2008 7:15:00 AM

A pro-family advocate argues that if California's Proposition 8 does not pass, kindergarten age children could be cheated of their innocence.


Prop. 8 is the ballot measure that would negate a California Supreme Court ruling legalizing homosexual "marriage." And Randy Thomasson of the Campaign for Children and Families believes children ought to be protected.

He says current sex education includes training on marriage to all students, and failing to pass the amendment would mean the teaching of homosexual marriage to the youngest of students. "Because homosexual marriage has been ordered by the California Supreme Court, that means children are being taught to honor and respect homosexual marriages from fifth-grade on in sex education school districts-- and from kindergarten on up when the other state law is applied," he details.

Opponents of Prop. 8 told the San Francisco Chronicle such predictions are "all nonsense and scare tactics," but a spokeswoman for the "Yes on 8" campaign disagreed. Jennifer Kerns asserted last week that under current California education law, students at every grade level must now be taught that same-sex marriage is the same as traditional marriage. In response, a Prop. 8 opponent said California law requires only that students be taught "at some point" before graduation from high school about the legal and financial aspects of marriage.

Regardless, Thomasson suggests it is vital for Californians to approve the constitutional amendment in order to protect "[c]hildren's innocence." And he argues that adult choices should not be pushed upon small children.

But apparently, Thomasson thinks the adult choice of heterosexual marraige is OK, right? What a hypocrite.

How exactly is teaching children from a young age to accept humans as humans "cheating them of their innocence"? They will not be showing gay porn. They will not try to convert them into homosexuals. So, how are you cheating them of their innocence? Anywhere you go in public, you are likely to see homosexuals. Perhaps you might see two men holding hands, or two women holding hands in public. When your child asks about it, what are you going to tell them? Are you going to tell them that they are going to hell because they do not fit into your christian lifestyle? Are you going to tell them that they are wrong because they do not live life the way you do? Or are you going to tell them that perhaps they are in love, much like mommy and daddy, and choose to embrace each other in public, regardless of the scorn they may receive? Nahh, you would never allow your christian child to understand the reality of the world. That would just be the right thing to do, and we all know that does not fit into your agenda. So, because you disagree with a lifestyle that has no effect on your right to live your life, or the rights of any other human to live their life and pursue their personal happiness, you would like to make a constitutional amendment banning their rights to the pursuit of happiness. Way to be. Amend the constitution to change perhaps one of the greatest liberties granted by it.

If that’s your view of the issue Caymon,that’s fine.
But, there is no need to deamean and degrade many of us that believe homosexuality is immoral and a perversion. Many Americans use the Bible as their compass to decide what’s moral and what’s not.
Of course our Constitution provides and protect all of us wiht the freedom to decide what’s moral and what’s not.

So what happens, or I should say what should happen in cases such as this where there is such division?

Does one side shove their morals down the throats of the opposing side, and just say deal with it?

One side believes so.

That’s what the liberal are trying to do. They don’t want the people to vote on this issue, which is what is supposed to happen. The fact is the people of California did vote on it, and four judges voided the millions of California voters who voted not make gay marriage legal. .

That’s not America.

Then the Gay activists tried to have the amendment taken off the ballot. So Californians would not even have a voice on this issue.

That’s not America.

That effort failed.

But now these activist are trying to get their way by confusing voters with the language on the ballot.

The ballot title originally approved for Proposition 8 described the proposal as an amendment “to provide that only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California.” But after homosexual activists failed to get the initiative removed from the ballot, Secretary of State Debra Bowen changed the title to describe the proposal as amending the state constitution to “eliminate the right of same-sex couples to marry.”


If gay marriage is going to be legalized in this country lets not ram it down our throats, lets do it the American way, by having the people vote on it.

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If gay marriage is going to be legalized in this country lets not ram it down our throats, lets do it the American way, by having the people vote on it.


AMEN!!!!!

There is nothing to vote on. There is no legal justification for disallowing same sex marriage. The are trying to make a law requiring everyone to adhere to their religious values.

Once you remove marriage as a religious establishment, and turn it into a legal contract between 2 people, bound by the state, if you define it to fit your religious definition of the word, you are creating a law in respect to the establishment of religion, which is expressly prohibited in the United States Constitution.