The National Organization for
Marriage's (NOM) Marriage Anti-Defamation Alliance on Friday released
a video in which a former Canadian educator warned that the
legalization of gay marriage would lead to schools teaching that boys
could marry boys.
Phil Lees, the founder of Public
Education Advocates for Christian Equity (PEACE), a group opposed to
gay-inclusive schools, said that Canada's marriage law clashes with
the values of “traditional principled faith families.”
“The last 15, 16 years, I've noticed
that curriculum started coming into the schools that was somewhat
challenging and in conflict with the values of, we'll say,
traditional principled faith families,” Lees said in the 4-minute
video. “The change was extremely fast. By 2006, 18 school boards
in the province of Ontario implemented sexual orientation policies
mandating curriculum that affirms LGBT values.”
As an example, Lees said that a
third-grade boy married another boy at school.
Lees explained that the boy told his
mother, “Today, I married my best friend, Jimmy.”
“And the mother said, 'How did that
happen?' 'Well, today we had somebody come in and talk about
marriage, about same-sex marriage, and the teacher thought it was a
good idea that we all decide to choose someone that we think we would
like to marry. And in the classroom, we had a marriage ceremony.
And we even had a person come in who looked like a minister do a
ceremony. And then afterward, we had cake and ice cream.'”
“If same-sex marriage is passed in
your state, your children, your grandchildren will be exposed to the
same kinds of instruction. … One of the problems in Ontario is the
people of faith withdrew from the system. And when you withdraw from
the system … other values come in.” (The video is embedded on
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Lees, also the leader of the Family
Coalition Party (FCP), has previously recounted the same story while
testifying against bills throughout Ontario.