How about this for a 1st grade field trip

How narrow-minded to think that the only thing educational about attending a wedding would be in reference to what gender the participants are! I can think of many things that would be teaching opportunities to a young child attending a wedding. For example...formal etiquette. Customs and traditions ("something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue", wearing white, bridesmaids and grooms, tossing garters or feeding each other cake). A look at the different fancy types of foods served at a wedding as opposed to every day foods. An opportunity for girls and boys to dress to the hilt, if they so desire, and to learn how to sit in a dress or button and unbutton a dress coat as they sit and rise. How to tie a tie. You guys are killing me with your over-reactions to gender issues.

 

I can teach my child to tolerate a behavoir, attitude, lifestlye, but that does not mean I have to support the couple and their choice. When I got married I only invited my family and very close friends to my wedding! I did not invite people just to get lots of free gifts or to show off how much money I could throw into a wedding. I feel that people that attend a wedding should be people that will support you and your marriage through thick and thin. Teaching someone to tolerate others is not a bad thing... however I do not have to support their choice and lifestyle as in saying I got your back no matter what? I mean seriously what is wrong with that???? :banghead:

 

Narrow minded? Seriously??? From the person that said this once Senator Helms died

 

Yeah, some first graders are all about learning some etiquette. PLEASE! Nice spin tactic, but I'm not buying it.

 

While I have no issue with same gender weddings, I do have an issue with people making an issue of it.

You do make a valid point if the school had ever taken the kids to a heterosexual wedding as a field trip. However, since there is no indication that this was the case, it would appear that the field trip was, at least at some level, because it was a same gender wedding. I disagree with this.

 

agree

 

wow

 

Your avatar helped me remember that! LOL

 

Is the appropriate gift for a lesbo wedding carpet cleaner or ace bandages? :lol:

 

As for people not liking those who dislike gay weddings.....calling us homophobes etc.

My old man said it best. "I'm not scared of dog **** but that doesn't mean I don't try to avoid stepping in it."

 

Pretty much! LOL .

 

Just as much as the fifth graders are "all about" learning about some NC symphony.8) Just because it isn't chucky cheese fun doesn't mean it isn't something worth teaching, or something worth learning. I've been working on social etiquette with my children since they could sit up and smile. No spin here, just a different view point.

**Just for the record, for whoever posted my earlier statement about the death of Jesse Helms, I will stand by my statement that the world is indeed a better place. Thanks for reminding me!

 

Etiquette classes in the first grade? A lil early I think.

The only "better place" as a result of Jesse's death is the cemetery in which he is buried.

 

Once again, if the school had ever taken the kids to a heterosexual wedding on a field trip, then I would agree with you. However, since there is no indication that this has been the case, then it obviously, at some level, had something to do with the fact that it was a same gender wedding.

 

:ack: I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

 

Maybe this was the first teacher at that school to get married. Maybe they plan on offering field trips to all teachers' weddings in the future.

 

Fair enough but I would never speak that way of Ted Kennedy no matter how many people he's killed.

 

Or it could just be that this is the first group of parents to love their child's teacher enough to want to attend the teacher's wedding and to get motivated and creative enough to incorporate it into the school day. So would your argument still hold water if next week another class went to a heterosexual teacher's wedding? Why does the attendance of a heterosexual wedding have to come first in order for it to be unrelated to gender?

Again, my point was the narrow focus on the only aspect of the wedding being gender, and not giving credit at all to the idea that there are educational opportunities there.

 

I posted this.... however since you brought up narrow minded I can not see how the death of someone who never killed anyone, abused someone personally, or sold drugs but is better off dead is not considered narrowminded.. He was someones husband, father, uncle so for you to say that is flat out wrong and worst than me not supporting their marriage but accepting them.

 

Divorce rate is 50% so the children can go to the lesbo's second marriage when they are in the 8th grade. Maybe by then they will have a better grasp at what is going on.
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