MARRIAGE IN SCHOOLS: From the Willamette Week

[emphasis added by Eve]

Fools that we are, the Rogue Desk naively assumed that if the constitutional ban on gay marriage fails to pass, the only result will be continued debate about the issue. Thank God® the Defense of Marriage Coalition is around to set us, uh, straight.

In a letter sent to the 244,587 Oregonians who signed their petition, the DMC revealed what's really at stake for kids if the amendment doesn't pass.

"Beginning in kindergarten, children will be taught that marriage between two men is the same as marriage between a man and a woman," the letter says. "Sex-education classes will be required to teach homosexuality as a legitimate option."

This was all news to Gene Evans, spokesman for the state schools. "The Oregon Department of Education couldn't require kindergarten teachers to do that even if we wanted to," Evans says. "The curriculum is set through a public process, and right now there is no marriage curriculum in any grade."

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