1st Grade Field Trip: to the teacher's lesbian wedding

I remember chaperoning a kindergarten field trip to ride the Staten Island ferry. I was so afraid that one of the boys was going to run right off the boat. I never volunteered to chaperone field trips after that.

That was Brooklyn circa 1990. What follows is San Francisco 2008. I simply can't imagine it.

A public school in San Francisco bused 18 first-graders to City Hall [Friday], so the youngsters could scatter rose petals in celebration of their lesbian teacher's wedding.

The students, from Creative Arts Charter School, waited on the steps for their teacher with bags of pink rose petals, bottles of bubbles and, at least for some, with political buttons asking Californians to vote down Proposition 8, a ballot measure that seeks to define marriage in the state as a union between one man and one woman.

Read it all here; at the end of the article, you're invited to participate in a poll of your opinion.

Thank goodness, the MSM Chicago Tribune at least mentions that "there was a question of justifying the field trip academically."

The school's interim director Liz Jaroflow "decided she could."

"It really is what we call a teachable moment," Jaroflow said, noting the historic significance of same-sex marriage and related civil rights issues.

"I think I'm well within the parameters."

And then there's this quote from one of the first-graders:

"She's a really nice teacher. She's the best," said 6-year-old Chava Novogrodsky-Godt, wearing a "No on 8" button on her shirt. "I want her to have a good wedding."

Chava's mothers said they are getting married in two weeks.

In an earlier post, we heard Naomi Ragen saying

.... I have no idea what has happened to the America I knew. I have no idea what happened to the American Jewish community's support for Israel, how it has been washed away by deceptive self-interest and propaganda lies. But when I think what is in store for the America which is doing this to herself, and the American Jewish community who thinks by selling out Israel it will somehow achieve "change" that will benefit it, my heart aches.

I also have no idea what happened to America, and my heart aches too. This time for little 6-year-old Chava -- even though I'm 100% certain that her mothers would say she's perfectly happy...

with no daddy :(