The proponents of Prop 8 don't want to not teach about gay marriage in schools. They want to ensure that schools teach about marriage, and teach that gay marriage is evil and wrong and the voters of California said so.
They don't want to acknowledge that the state recognizes marriages that their religion doesn't. It's a head-in-sand thing, though. It's already true, there are already many California marriages that different religious denominations don't recognize (Catholics and divorceés who remarry, for example), but they're invisible; they can be easily ignored. They can teach that all kinds of marriages are wrong, and their students will never realize that married people they know aren't recognized by their church.
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Date: 2008-10-31 02:20 am (UTC)The proponents of Prop 8 don't want to not teach about gay marriage in schools. They want to ensure that schools teach about marriage, and teach that gay marriage is evil and wrong and the voters of California said so.
They don't want to acknowledge that the state recognizes marriages that their religion doesn't. It's a head-in-sand thing, though. It's already true, there are already many California marriages that different religious denominations don't recognize (Catholics and divorceés who remarry, for example), but they're invisible; they can be easily ignored. They can teach that all kinds of marriages are wrong, and their students will never realize that married people they know aren't recognized by their church.