Amendment Targets Gay Marriage in Massachusetts

News:

This week, Massachusetts lawmakers will consider a constitutional amendment intended to roll back the state’s law, unique in the country, which allows same-sex couples to wed. The initiative has been championed by Republican governor Mitt Romney, said to considering a presidential bid, and several of the state’s high-ranking Catholic officials. The bishops have rejected criticism of the amendment as discriminatory, saying same-sex couples are suffering from “an exaggerated sense of entitlement” in believing they deserve the same rights as other American citizens. 165 prominent business and civic leaders, including the mayor of Boston, have taken out an ad in Boston papers urging the state legislature to reject the amendment.

No coincidence

It's more than a coincidence, it's a systematic attempt to destroy the system. Vouchers for private schools will help fund the schooling for rich kids to good private schools, and leave the poor kids who get enough together to get the tuition for a private school in the kind of private school where none of the teachers are credentialed. One of my relatives teaches in a private school because she couldn't pass the state credentials exam IN ANY OF THE STATES where she tried. I have yet to be convinced that any but the most elite private schools does a better job than public schools. Where SAT and ACT scores are concerned, they don't. That's why in Colorado all the kids in public schools are forced to take the tests, to lower the SAT and ACT test scores at public schools and make the private school scores look more favorable in comparison.
And don't even get me started on NCLB!

"And Saint Attila raised the hand grenade up on high, saying, 'O Lord, bless this thy hand grenade, that with it thou mayst blow thine enemies to tiny bits, in thy mercy.'" --Monty Python and The Holy Grail

By MichtouJuly 10, 2006 - 10:47am