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Article: School issue sways gay marriage voters
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- Charleston Gazette
- Article date:
- November 7, 2009
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SAN FRANCISCO - Gay marriage opponents pulled off another victory
at the ballot box this week by using a tried-and-tested argument:
Approve it and children will be taught homosexuality in school.
Voters seemed to be swayed by the message, both in Maine and in
last year's gay marriage battle in California. It has become an
important part of the ever-evolving playbook of gay marriage
opponents, who have now won 31 consecutive statewide ballot measures
against the issue.
In Maine and California, voters were besieged with ad images of
what would supposedly happen if same-sex marriage were legal:
students going on a field trip to a lesbian wedding, elementary
school kids reading books featuring ...