Conservative Warns Same-Sex Marriage Could Prime Public Schools for Homosexual Agenda
by Jim Brown
November 1, 2004
(AgapePress) - A conservative group is warning Oregon voters that if they fail to pass a constitutional amendment banning same-sex marriage, the resulting fallout in public schools could be devastating.
Oregon is one of eleven states voting Tuesday on constitutional amendments to protect traditional marriage. In hopes of avoiding a complete shutout, homosexual activists and their supporters have targeted Oregon as the state where they are most likely to defeat the amendment.
The Portland-based Defense of Marriage Coalition and other pro-family groups are urging Oregonians to support Measure 36 when they head to the polls tomorrow. The measure, stated below, defines marriage specifically as being only between a man and a woman.
"The Constitution of the State is amended as follows: It is the Policy of Oregon, and its political subdivisions, that only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or legally recognized as a marriage."
Coalition executive director Mike White is warning pro-family Oregonians that if homosexual activists are willing to sue to overturn Oregon's constitution and 200 laws protecting traditional marriage, they will not stop there. He says if that happens and public policy in the state allows homosexual couples to marry, "it's not going to be long before they go to court and insist that public schools teach same-sex relationships as equal to heterosexual relationships."
White notes that something similar has already begun in Massachusetts schools. There, he notes, some junior high teachers that have been emboldened by the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court's legalization of same-sex marriage have begun using charts and graphs in the classroom to discuss homosexual sex.
The Defense of Marriage Coalition spokesman believes promotion of homosexuality in Oregon's public school classrooms is sure to intensify if the people do not pass the ballot measure affirming traditional marriage tomorrow. He says many conservative teachers and administrators are concerned that a new interpretation of marriage in the state could pave the way for explicit teaching of homosexuality in schools.
"One of the largest groups of supporters that we had -- speaking on our behalf, being in our commercials, and signing our petitions and circulating them -- was educators," White says. "We have a tremendous number of educators who are very concerned that the next step is to use the classrooms as not just a place for education, but for actual indoctrination in a lifestyle that a lot of people just aren't comfortable with."
White adds that Oregon's homosexual community has spent millions of out-of-state dollars from pro-homosexual marriage contributors targeting the state as their best chance for a victory. One mid-October poll indicated voters favor the measure, with 57 percent in favor, 36 percent opposed, and the rest undecided.
