Stand For Marriage Maine: Massachusetts Couple Shares Experience of Second Graders Being Introduced To Gay Marriage In Class

Massachusetts Couple Shares Experience of Second Graders Being
Introduced To Gay Marriage In Class

Stand For Marriage Maine today began airing a new television commercial called "Everything To Do With Schools." You can watch it here. This powerful new ad shares the story of Robb and Robin Wirthlin who were shocked when their seven year old son came home from school in Lexington, Massachusetts and told them that he had been taught that a boy could marry another boy! The child's public school teacher read to the class the story of "King and King," a book about a homosexual prince who marries another prince and goes on to rule the kingdom happily ever after.
Much has been in the news recently about whether homosexual marriage will be taught to children in Maine's public schools.

This new advertisement, and a longer video interview with the Wirthlin's that is available on our website, make it clear what happened in Massachusetts.

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The only way to be sure that homosexual marriage won't be taught in Maine is to pass Question 1. Question 1 will veto LD 1020 which would legalize homosexual marriage if allowed to go into effect.

Our opponents have spent the past week claiming that, "Question 1 has nothing to do with schools or education," as Jesse Connolly told the Kennebec Journal Morning Sentinel. Massachusetts parents didn't think that the legalization of gay marriage there would result it in being taught in Massachusetts schools. But it did.

The concerns Stand For Marriage Maine have raised about homosexual marriage being taught in public schools are legitimate and well-founded, as Robb and Robin Wirthlin have made clear in our new television ad. Our opponents hide from this real experience by saying LD 1020 doesn't even mention schools. This is a diversion.

While we all know that curriculum decisions in Maine are largely up to local school boards, we also know that there is already tremendous pressure on local school boards from Augusta to adopt "gay friendly" curriculum TODAY, and gay marriage isn't even legal now. If they succeed in defeating Question 1 and legalizing homosexual marriage, this pressure on local school boards will dramatically increase. This is what happened in Massachusetts, and it will happen in Maine too.

Any instruction on marriage cannot avoid a discussion of homosexual marriage, since the law will define marriage as genderless - traditional and homosexual marriage will legally be the same thing. Further, the federal courts with jurisdiction over Maine have already ruled in Parker v. Hurley that Massachusetts parents like Robb and Robin Wirthlin do not have the right to notice about this instruction or to opt their children out of it. Thus, when homosexual marriage is discussed with children in local Maine schools, this instruction will be mandatory. It's not that gay marriage education is mandated in LD 1020, it's that LD 1020 will inevitably lead to it being taught in schools, which will be mandatory for those students.

Thank you for your continued support of traditional marriage. May God bless you and your family.

Sincerely,
Marc Mutty