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Governor
Schwarzenegger Signs Bill Targeting People of Faith
SB 1441 an Assault on Freedom of Organized Religion, Religious Schools
Governor Schwarzenegger
signed SB 1441 (Kuehl-D) into law today. SB 1441
would require all businesses and organizations receiving funding from the
state to condone homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality
or lose state funding. There is no exception for faith-based
organizations or business owners with sincerely held religious convictions.
“This isn’t even a veiled attempt at subtly
advancing the radical homosexual agenda,” stated Karen England, Executive
Director of Capitol Resource Institute. “SB 1441 is an outright, blatant
assault on religious freedom in California.”
This legislation will prevent parochial schools, such as private,
Christian, Catholic, Mormon, and many other religious universities, from
receiving student financial assistance if they also maintain a student code
of conduct preventing behavior deemed immoral by their religious beliefs.
By withholding state funding from schools, students’ educational
opportunities will be severely limited. And limiting educational
opportunities will result in a less diverse, less educated citizenry.
“As a citizen of California and a religious person, I am
terribly disappointed in Governor Schwarzenegger,”
stated Meredith Turney, Legislative Liaison for
Capitol Resource Institute. “It is bad public policy to add to the list of
protected classes a sexual behavior. Equating sexual preference with the
immutable characteristics of age, national origin or race will result in
other variable behaviors being added to the list of invariable classes
rightfully protected.”
Forcing private education institutions to accept students engaged in
behavior offensive to the school’s moral code is
a serious infringement of the constitutional rights to freedom of assembly
and freedom of speech.
“This bill is yet another attempt to prevent citizens with moral and
religious principles from expressing their beliefs and educating their
children according to those beliefs,” continued England. “On behalf of California families, private schools and
other private organization, I express our outrage at this attack on our
freedom. Unfortunately for California families, there are several other
radical homosexual bills heading towards the Governor’s
desk.”
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More Radical Bills We Need Your
Help On!
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Now is the time to contact the
Governor and urge him veto the following bills:
AB 1207—Preventing Free Speech in Elections (Yee-D)
This attack on religious candidates for public office would curtail their
ability to express personal religious beliefs. AB 1207 would add to the
Code of Fair Political Practices the requirement they not “use or permit
any appeal to negative prejudices based on, sexual orientation or gender
identity.” Such language could be interpreted to mean that candidates are
not allowed to support traditional marriage since that could be construed
as appealing to negative prejudices about homosexuals. <
SB 1437—Homosexual Indoctrination in Schools (Kuehl-D)
This bill prohibits textbooks, teaching materials, instruction and
“school sponsored” activities from “reflecting adversely” upon others
based on actual or perceived gender and sexual orientation. This means
the terms “mother and father” or “husband and wife” could be removed from
textbooks because they reflect adversely upon homosexuals. This is the
most blatant attack on California families thus far.
AB 606—Superintendent of Public Indoctrination (Levine-D)
AB 606 was amended this week. It now requires the State Board of
Education (instead of individual school districts) to increase
sensitivity to so-called “discrimination.” This amendment may be a
response to criticism that mandating policies at the school district
level constitutes “micromanagement.” Either way, mandating these policies
through a state department confiscates even more local control of school
curriculum and policies. Policy decisions are best made at the local
level, where parents and teachers are in direct contact with the needs of
students. In yet another gigantic step towards total government control
of education, the State Superintendent of Public Instruction (currently
Jack O’Connell) will have unlimited discretion
to withhold state funds from schools that do not comply with his
interpretation of the law this bill would produce. Schools should focus
on reading, writing and arithmetic, not trying to silence students’
freedom of speech and religion. No public official should have the power
to blackmail schools into brainwashing students.
AB 1056-- Thought Police Redefine Tolerance (Chu-D)
This bill is the most blatant attack on freedom of speech and religion to
date. AB 1056 integrates tolerance training into history and social
science curriculum and starts pilot program that force students to learn
a “new definition” of tolerance. According to this new definition,
students will be forced to not only accept, but advocate homosexuality by
“conveying respect” for a lifestyle that violates their religious beliefs.
This is an outright assault on the freedom to not only speak out against
homosexuality, but the ability to think it is immoral.
SB 2560—Public School Health Center Expansion (Ridley-Thomas-D) This Orwellian piece of legislation seeks to establish,
retain and expand “health centers” in public schools. These health
centers will collect data on children and then compile a biennial report
on the collected data. AB 2560 allows school-based health centers to
provide diagnostic and treatment services. This means that teachers and
school staff may remove students from class, examine them and then
“treat” them for maladies including “mental health disorders.” School
officials may also immunize students and provide counseling for “newer
morbidities” such as teen sex, substance abuse, smoking, violence and
behavioral problems. Under this legislation, the rights of parents to
direct their children’s healthcare will be
denied. School officials will possess the power to prescribe medication
to students they believe have “behavioral problems.”
SB 1471—Sex Education in Schools (Kuehl-D)
This legislation would prohibit teaching or promoting “religious
doctrine” in sex education classes. It also prohibits any teaching that
“reflects or promotes bias” against people based on their sexual
orientation. This legislation would apply to any school or program that
receives state funding—it is not limited to
public schools. Young children should not be exposed to sex “education”
in schools—it is subject matter best left to
the instruction and authority of parents. In addition, sex education
classes could be prevented from sharing negative statistics about
homosexuality if it reflects or promotes bias against sexual orientation.
If schools are required to provide sex education, they should provide all
the facts about risky sexual behavior. This bill would prevent accurate
sex education in public schools.
SB 1827—Joint Tax Filing for Domestic Partnerships (Migden-D)
This bill would permit domestic partners to file joint state income tax
returns. This is the final benefit of “marriage” to be withheld from
domestic partners by the state of California. All other rights and privileges of marriage have been
granted to them. This bill is a backdoor attempt by the homosexual lobby
to get state approval for homosexual “marriage.”
AB 2510—Bias Survey Promotes Homosexual Agenda (Lieu-D)
AB 2510 would require the Attorney General’s
office, working with the State Department of Education, to survey
students on bias-related discrimination and harassment incidents in
public schools. 7th, 9th and 11th graders in public schools will be
forced to fill out questionnaires asking whether they have experienced
bullying, discrimination or harassment based on sexual orientation or
gender (actual or perceived). Surveys of this nature are not only an
invasion of students’ personal beliefs and experiences,
they are an intrusion into the jurisdiction of parents’ authority. These
surveys could also be used to search for isolated so-called “incidents”
of harassment in order to bolster arguments for more pro-homosexual
legislation, such as AB 606 and AB 1056.
Contact
Governor Schwarzenegger and ask him to VETO these bills!
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