I’m concerned that public schools will be required to teach about gay marriage.

Maine’s marriage laws have no relationship to the state’s curriculum guidelines.  Long before the same-sex marriage law passed in Maine, some schools chose to include and acknowledge the existence of gay and lesbian families.  In these cases, school officials decided it was important to teach students to be respectful of the families of their classmates.  These schools teach students how to behave towards their classmates, not what to believe.