Homosexual agenda advances in schools - SB1437 and SB1441 pass in California
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This is really scary. Two bills, SB1437 and SB1441, passed out of the State Senate today. The first mandates the promotion of homosexuality in all public schools and prohibits any negative teaching about homosexuals or those of any non-traditional sexuality. The second creates special rights for those of any non-traditional sexuality, including freedom from "discrimination" (and with our judges, that could easily become any statement that is negative toward this group) by people who receive any money in any way from the state.
Read on:
According to the California Family Council:
Existing law prohibits school instruction or activity that reflects adversely upon persons because of their race, sex, color, creed, handicap, national origin or ancestry. This bill would add sexual orientation to that list. It also requires schools to teach children about the contributions of gays, lesbians, bi-sexuals and transgendered persons to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States. The bill says governing boards must adopt materials that "accurately portray the cultural, racial, gender, and sexual diversity of our society..."
This is a truly terrible bill. It would force California public schools to adopt textbooks which
- Must say nothing bad about homosexuals, bisexuals or transsexuals and
- Must promote the positive actions of homosexuals, bisexuals and transsexuals AND identify these people by their sexuality. This is to eliminate the "enforced invisibility that so many minority groups have gone through in terms of their contributions to California history," according to Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica (who is openly homosexual).
And this is as early as kindergarten. Elementary students do not need to know anything about adult sexuality. How are you going to explain that some people have sex with both sexes or have undergone sex change surgery to 5-year-olds?
This is an obvious attempt to indoctrinate the children of California into total acceptance of all forms of sexuality. At early elementary ages, children are very impressionable, especially when information comes from adults - and this info would come from teachers. Many people (especially Christians) in California see these forms of sexuality as perversions. Rather than allow a child's parents to instruct him or her in sex or religion, the California State Senate has decided what children should think about sex and religion. After growing up under these ideas for 14 years in public schools, California students will be well-bred secular humanist progressives.
Government-enforced textbook regulations in California will cause producers to make books that promote non-traditional sexuality. As California is the nation's largest textbook market, this could cause the pro-homosexual textbooks to be sold to schools throughout the country. So don't think that just because you don't live in California that this doesn't have the potential to affect you.
SB1441 was also approved today by the State Senate. Again from the California Family Council:
Current laws prohibit discrimination against any person because of race, national origin, religion, sex, age or disability in any program or activity conducted, operated, or administered by the state or by any state agency. SB 1441 adds the term "sexual orientation" to those laws. The bill would also expand the definition of discrimination to include a perception that a person has any of these enumerated characteristics.
This bill effectively creates special rights for one group of people. Potentially, this law could be used to prosecute anyone who receives public money in any form who says anything that is perceived to be "discrimination" by homosexuals. This could prevent anyone in California schools, not to mention other government jobs, from voicing dissent.
What is really scary is that we are on the verge of the effective illegalization of evangelical Christianity. This would be done simply by expanding the law from those who receive public money to all citizens of California. Christians would not be able to preach their faith without fear of prosecution. It is a sad state of affairs that California is a stone's throw away from totalitarian-style religious oppression. We must pray and do all we can to stop this from happening - and that starts with stopping these bills.
The bills now go to the State Assembly. This being California, they will likely pass. The only hope may be that Schwarzenegger will veto these bills. Already a social liberal, he has been moving left since the defeat of his fairly conservative initiatives last year. Yet he will likely need the support of social conservatives to win re-election in November. If we put enough pressure on him, there's a chance we could prevent the pending disaster of these bills passing. Here's how to contact him.
is to take the kids out of public schools. Private, religious, home schooling whatever, just no public schools.
Both our kids went this way. It was expensive and difficult but there was no way our kids were going into the zoo that the public schools have become.
Don't you know there is NO "homosexual agenda"? It's all a figment of your imagination. Get with the 21st century please. Sheesh.
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Do we need to come up with gay/lesbian/transgendered/bisexual math problems as well?
I'll bet money that you'll see it everywhere. My kid goes to a private school, but they still purchase textbooks from the big publishers (Harcourt for math). You should read the dumb@$$ word problems.
When one acre of forestland is logged in America, habitat for 2,126 animals is destroyed. How many animals lose their homes if 75 acres of forestland is destroyed by an evil capitalist?
book in the history of mankind cannot be used as a text in public schools.
Too bad. I had an English teacher in high school who shared the beautiful poetry and prose of Ecclesiastes with us.
were kidding with he evil capitalist bit.
Puhleeze! WTH is with this being in a private school?
That was just a joke. But they really do word their questions in such a manner as to imply that the liberal position is just simply the fact. Particular on environmental matters. That's where I've noticed it.
I know there are Christian publishers out there...they're probably more expensive though. But most of my books were published by Christian publishers. You just have to find a school that uses one.
However, my public high school did have at least one English class that taught the book of Job as literature - that was last year. My public University taught much of the new testiment just a few weeks ago (we focused on Paul). However, the new law would at least bar the Romans 1 passage (which we were assigned) and the Leviticus 18 and 20 passages. If they just reproduced other passages as literature, they might get away with it ... though, I don't know for how long.
Christian publishers don't put out much better. The narrow scope in science in particular concerns me with some. As does some of the social studies curriculum I have come across. They portray American Indians in a negative light as a whole. I'm thinking it was a Bob Jones curriculum.
I have determined after sending my kids to public and private, that regardless of the setting, I still have to be very hands-on with their education and I am constantly surveying what they are learning.
We are currently in a private setting, but I do not know what the next location will dictate. I have to work in order to pay the tuition, but it is worth it for now. Bills like they just paased in CA lead me to think that I will continue to work and pay the private tuition unless we go someplace fairly conservative.
I could never go back to one. Ever, ever, ever. I know things are worse now than when I was there, but looking back, there was a lot of propaganda and ignorance when I was there, too.
I think the whole state is lost, in almost every cultural way.
absolutely. So many people in this country offended by so many things - we oughta make sure the school isn't promoting any point of view.
Still a pretty decent-sized group of people in this country who are anti-miscegenation - so why do our textbooks show black people and and white people committing perversions together? Why did the Supreme Court have to end this debate so abruptly in Loving? Can't the people of Virginia decide for themselves?
Similar with women working. Why is this society-destroying trend ever portrayed in a positive light?
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Seriously, I'm so sick and tired of people harping on and on about states' rights and then complaining when states take advantage of them. I will proudly admit to being especially perturbed when said people also consider homosexuality a perversion - but, thankfully, this view is a rapidly shrinking minority one. Substitute "homosexuality" in all of these compliaints with "being black" and you'll understand why it's so repugnant.
"After growing up under these ideas for 14 years in public schools, California students will be well-bred secular humanist progressives."
Sounds good to me. Curious as to why you use the phrase "well-bred", which seems approving, when you seem to regard this as a bad thing.
Serious question -
[I]prohibits any negative teaching about homosexuals or those of any non-traditional sexuality.[/I]
Are there actually any negative teachings in the classroom just now? What will this actually change? Are there textbooks that say homosexuality is bad?
I'd love to see some convincing analysis that shows a plausible way in which California can be brought back from such far-left lunacy, but I've yet to anything. The demographics are daunting. The state's shrinking white population is too liberal, while the rapidly growing Hispanic and Asian communities prefer the Democrats by large margins. So I'd expect to see more of such legislation in the future.
and it looks like California. They're just twenty years or so further down the slope of decadence than the rest of the country. Too bad, because it's really a nice place in many respects.
Some schools will use old textbooks for quite some time, if there's no compelling reason to change them. I do recall seeing "Perhaps some day, man will land on the moon" in one of my science textbooks. In the mid-80s.
All these goofy textbook laws that CA passes affects everyone else as well. So not only are they dictating to all the local CA schools what stupid stuff they have to have in their textbooks, they are also, in effect, dictating it to the rest of the country. I sure like legislators 2000 miles away in another state deciding what our kids get taught.
Some of the environmental stuff gets exported to other states as well, though at least I have a few dozen items around the house that are prohibited for sale in California. Everything else I own is "known by the state of California to cause cancer."
One thing here is does this only apply to history books or does it apply to every kind of textbook? Do we need to come up with gay/lesbian/transgendered/bisexual math problems as well?