The Marriage Defense Education Network

Associated Press writers Lisa Leff and David Sharp wrote about the issue of public education and marriage neutering, and how successful marriage defenders have been when focusing on that aspect of the debate.

"It's drawing on the fears of the unknown," said Sandy Maisel, director of the Goldfarb Center for Public Affairs and Civic Engagement at Maine's Colby College. "There's no evidence that it's going to happen, but there's very clear evidence that it's an effective campaign tactic."

Maisel's statement is ridiculous. Education unions support marriage neutering. The same groups pushing for marriage neutering have long pushed the rest of their agendas in public schools, often deciding to go ahead without parental approval and leaving it up to parents to find out, object, and pull their individual students out of the situation - and even then the parents face hurdles. Do they think we don't know that GSAs exist? We don't base our stance on the unknown but what we do know.

After signing up to lead the campaign, political consultants Frank Schubert and Jeff Flint noticed that polls were showing voters tended to not have much of a problem with gay relationships.

Right. We're a very tolerant people. Even people who find the very idea of homosexual behavior repulsive generally think homosexual people should not have their freedom of association restricted more than anyone else, and should be able to live their lives the same as anyone else. However, most of us also have the notion that marriage unites the sexes.

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In California and Maine, gay marriage supporters countered the claims with spots featuring prominent elected officials such as California's chief of public instruction and Maine's attorney general, who both insisted that same-sex marriage had nothing to do with schools.

And the voters don't believe it, because we've been lied to too many times. Parental authority has been undermined too many times. Just read further down:

But the issue persisted, according to advocates on both sides, in part because gay marriage supporters failed to discuss a key fact: Many public schools already have lessons that refer to gay families in the younger grades and confront anti-gay discrimination for older students.

It's not just that. Students are being taught that they must not only affirm, but celebrate homosexual behavior, and not express any disapproval. Plus, public schools are going to teach official state policies, and if the official state policy is that there is no difference between marriage and pseudomarriage, that is what will be taught.

Previously on my namesake blog: "Schools Aren’t Required to Teach Marriage"