Attorney General Report

As you’ve probably heard by now, Janet Mills, Maine’s Attorney General, has finished her report on whether or not the same-sex marriage law would have any impact on schools. Her findings were concrete, and what we’ve been saying all along. "I have scoured Maine laws relating to the education of its children for any references to marriage in the public school curricula," Mills wrote in her opinion. "I have found none." She also says that state educational standards do not include the teaching of marriage, but that individual school boards "determine the exact content of each district's curricula."  If parents have concerns about what is being taught in their local school, they can ask the school board to make accommodations for their religious beliefs, she wrote.  Regardless, those provisions are in place now and won't be changed with the outcome of the Nov. 3 election, she said in an interview.  "The state's definition of marriage has no bearing on curricula of public schools," she said. "It's apples and oranges."
 
While our opposition dismisses the report as nothing more than “a shameless political ploy,” no one is really surprised by the outcome.  Maine people know that it’s their friends and family who are on those school boards determining what is being taught in schools. Surprised or not, it feels great to have the Attorney General set the record straight on schools.

To read the full Kennebec Journal article, please click here.