{"id":1013,"date":"2004-08-06T07:55:31","date_gmt":"2004-08-06T15:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2004\/08\/06\/teaching-marriage-in-schools\/"},"modified":"2004-08-06T07:55:31","modified_gmt":"2004-08-06T15:55:31","slug":"teaching-marriage-in-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1013","title":{"rendered":"Teaching Marriage in Schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From the current <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wweek.com\/story.php?story=5376\"><i>Willamette Week<\/i>:<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"snip\">In a letter sent to the 244,587 Oregonians who signed their petition, the Defense of Marriage Coalition revealed what&#8217;s really at stake for kids if the [Oregon anti-same-sex-marriage] amendment doesn&#8217;t pass.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Beginning in kindergarten, children will be taught that marriage between two men is the same as marriage between a man and a woman,&#8221; the letter says. &#8220;Sex-education classes will be required to teach homosexuality as a legitimate option.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This was all news to Gene Evans, spokesman for the state schools. &#8220;The Oregon Department of Education couldn&#8217;t require kindergarten teachers to do that even if we wanted to,&#8221; Evans says. &#8220;The curriculum is set through a public process, and right now there is no marriage curriculum in any grade.&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the current Willamette Week: In a letter sent to the 244,587 Oregonians who signed their petition, the Defense of Marriage Coalition revealed what&#8217;s really at stake for kids if the [Oregon anti-same-sex-marriage] amendment doesn&#8217;t pass. &#8220;Beginning in kindergarten, children &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=1013\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-same-sex-marriage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}