Just when you think it can’t get any worse…

Excerpt:

As for Friday’s wedding of a lesbian teacher and her longtime partner, Newsom wasn’t aware that the first-graders would be skipping school for the event, Jaye said. The mayor performed the ceremony because one of the women was a friend of a friend. The students didn’t attend the wedding itself but surprised their teacher on the steps outside City Hall.

Newsom believes the students should have stayed in school that day, Jaye said. “He doesn’t think it’s a good idea for students to come out of class to attend any wedding,” Jaye said.

Political insiders say images of children attending a same-sex wedding play right into the hands of the proponents of a same-sex marriage ban. The more proponents can make the issue about protecting children and less about removing people’s rights, the better their chances, several people said.

Already, the pro-Prop. 8 campaign Web site is prominently displaying a reaction to Friday’s wedding.

Frank Schubert, campaign co-manager of the yes campaign, writes on the Web site, “Taking children out of school for a same-sex wedding is not customary education. This is promoting same-sex marriage and indoctrinating young kids. I doubt the school has ever taken kids on a field trip to a traditional wedding.”

Whether Newsom was aware of the student involvement or not, political analysts said it’s just a matter of time – days, probably – before Prop. 8 proponents find a way to capitalize on the mayor’s role in schoolchildren celebrating a same-sex wedding.

Political consultant David Latterman, who opposes Prop. 8, called the wedding a “gimme for the right-wingers.”

“I really hope Newsom had no idea those kids were going,” he said. “If this in his mind was a publicity stunt, that just boggles my mind. The mayor of San Francisco officiating a gay wedding that kids took off class to go to – I’d be disappointed if I didn’t see an ad made out of that. It’s an ad crying to be made.” (Source)

So, no, the very impressionable children were apparently not there to witness the “Do-you? – I-do” part, but, based on the photo (and others on the news site), the children saw enough. And I am sure someone “explained” to them where they were going and why — and since their teacher is…, they presumably have some idea of what “gay” means. No thanks to whoever’s brilliant idea this was, some of them now think there is such a thing as same-sex “marriage.” GOD doesn’t recognize those kinds of unions as blessed, they are apparently cursed because HE considers homosexuality and all sexual immorality as abominable sin. Is one also to assume that these kids’ parents signed some type of agreement to allow this “field trip?”