California First-Graders Taken to Teacher’s Same-Sex Wedding as Official Field Trip

There is an interesting feud in San Francisco after first-grade students to the wedding of their Lesbian teacher’s wedding. Opponents of same-sex marriage object that this is a major religious and political controversy and that the event (where students threw rose petals on teacher Erin Carder and her now wife Kerri McCoy) was “indoctrination.”

While I support same-sex marriage (I actually support the term civil union for everyone), I tend to agree that this was not an appropriate trip given the on-going political dispute and a pending referendum to ban same-sex marriage.

Nevertheless, Liz Jaroslow, the Creative Arts Charter School’s interim director, insisted “It really is what we call a teachable moment. I think I’m well within the parameters.” I don’t see that way when the matter is part of the coming election and opposed by so many parents on religious and political grounds.

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