[rhombus]

how are you going to keep it out of the public schools? once gay marriage is as legal as the marriages we have today, how are you going to stop gay activitists and the courts from forcing public schools to adopt this as part of the curriculum? can you imagine taking young children, who have not formed their own sense of reality on this topic due to their age and maturity level - from being taught that Eddie marrying Bobby is the same as Eddie marrying Susie?

How does one keep anything out of the public schools? Pick any issue... Drug abuse, project DARE. Overeating, purging and dieting programs. Media bias, NY Times case studies. Racism, diversity programs. Local action, local control. States should provide competency testing for reading, writing and arithmetic so schools don't have time for nonsense. The problem is activist judges and the Constitution, gay marriage is just the latest issue.

[oceanview]

I don't see how the other issues you list apply. schools don't advocate drug use or overeating.

even in NYC, the most liberal public schools around, gay textbooks were beaten back a few years ago. once gay marriage is legal, there will be no basis for stopping it anywhere.