Family Advocate Fears Pro-Homosexual Education Bill Will Pass California Senate
What better place for the homosexuals to force their aggenda down everyones throats then in liberal California? If this passes, I hope that Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetos it.
(AgapePress) - A California pro-family activist says a bill in the state Senate requiring public schools to teach homosexual, bisexual, and transgender history is an assault on the minds and bodies of school children.
A bill sponsored by lesbian Senator Sheila Kuehl, SB 1437, places new mandates on California public schools to approve a curriculum that promotes and celebrates the lives of transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual "role models." The legislation has already passed the Senate Judiciary Committee, despite pro-family opposition.
Randy Thomasson with the Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) testified against SB 1437 at a recent hearing. He is calling on California citizens to ask Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to veto the controversial measure.
Thomasson believes the pro-homosexual bill is aimed at encouraging children not just to tolerate but to emulate homosexual behavior. "This is really teaching children this is how [they] can be, too," he says.
"Under the proposed curriculum changes homosexuals, transsexuals, and bisexuals will be depicted as 'heroic,'" the pro-family activist contends, "and this is all part of their agenda -- to be role models for children, so more children will enter these sexual lifestyles, perhaps even get a sex change."
According to Thomasson, the California Department of Education will undoubtedly use SB 1437 to erase all traditional distinctions or gender standards. He says the bill is designed to penetrate the academic purpose of schools with sexual, social engineering targeting children as young as kindergarten by requiring every aspect of the public education system in California to accept, embrace, teach, and promote homosexuality and other harmful sexual lifestyles.
The CCF spokesman fears the bill is likely to pass the Senate. For that reason, he is urging Californians to contact their governor and ask him to pledge to veto SB 1437, as his response to the measure is not something conservative and pro-family citizens dare take for granted.
"We need to understand that Democrat politicians all across California and more so across the country are in favor of all of the transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual agenda," Thomasson asserts. "We also need to understand that liberal Republicans like Arnold Schwarzenegger are going to go back and forth on whether to sign or veto."
SB 1437 is "frightening for parents who want trustworthy schools," the pro-family advocate adds. He hopes those parents and other Californians will join him in calling on Governor Schwarzenegger to veto a bill that requires schools to teach students favorably regarding deviant and unhealthy sexual lifestyles.
Thomasson believes Christians in particular should be speaking out against SB 1437. He says the church is a problem when it is uninvolved and a solution when it is involved in fighting such proposals.
posted by Steve | 4/12/2006 07:39:00 AM
3 Comments:
Its not enough that every time I turn on the tv I have to hear from the homo crowd, but now they want to teach our kids their perverted lifestyle? Surely Gov. Arnold (I cant spell his last name) has enough decency to see this as an attack on our young people. I would suggest that the people of California need to rise up and speak their minds, but I fear that most of the Californians either dont care or agree with the bill. I hope I am wrong.
Hi Beth!
It even goes further, with them wanting to teach our kids their perverted lifestyle with the exclusion of all others. They continue to use every method at their disposal to silence the viewpoints in contention to their own.
I hope that California has not become bad enough to pass this bill.
I seem to have hit a nerve because of my lack of unconditional support for California's "We're going to force homosexuality down your throat" bill.
Your passion for your beliefs is admirable, but I think you missed the point.
What the homosexual community refuses to do is present both sides of the issue. Let's, for a moment, leave out the moral and religious views and concentrate on the health issues.
A recent report released by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) said that syphilis rates in the country rose for the fourth consecutive year. The rise was due primarily to the increase in risky sexual behavior among homosexually active men.
"Syphilis has increased 8 percent during 2003-2004," said Dr. John M. Douglas, director of the CDC division for prevention of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). "The overall increase is attributable to men who have sex with men."
The CDC stated that 64 percent of all adult cases of primary and secondary syphilis were among homosexually active men -- a huge jump from the 5 percent of cases represented by that category in 1999.
Chlamydia, an STD which is linked to cervical cancer, also increased last year -- up about 6 percent. While the CDC had reports of nearly 930,000 cases of chlamydia in 2004, public health experts with the agency estimate as many as 2.8 million new cases each year.
Gonorrhea rates reached their lowest level in the U.S. since the government began tracking the disease in 1941. However, that good news was tempered by the fact that, in 28 cities, a CDC survey found an increase in cases of gonorrhea that were resistant to antibiotics.
Once again, the homosexual community experienced the worst of the news: The incidence of drug-resistant gonorrhea was eight times higher among homosexual men than for heterosexuals.
These STDs -- and others such as AIDS, genital herpes and human papilloma virus (HPV) -- are more than simply a public health issue. The CDC press report noted: "CDC estimates that 19 million STD infections, including HIV and other non-notifiable STDs, occur each year. In addition to their immediate and long-term health consequences, these diseases result in direct medical costs of an estimated $13 billion annually."
So Nan, my question is:
When the homosexuals push for a bill like California's SB 1437, why are they afraid to present the negative side of the lifestyle, so that young people can have all the information necessary to make an informed decision?
The answer is that they know the homosexual lifestyle is dangerous and if that information was presented to questioning young people, with the same emphasis that the homosexual message is getting, that most young people would shy away from it. It is only by presenting the "glamorous" side, complete with homosexual "heroes", while either shying away from or silencing any forum that might present the opposing view, that the homosexual agenda can make headway.
I take umbrage to your statement that children of homosexual parents are cared for better then children of heterosexual couples. There are good parents and bad parents on both sides of the coin. Any "couple" who adopts a child is going to typically appreciate that child very much because of the added trouble it took to adopt. Comparing a child born to a panicking teen mother to a responsible couple looking to adopt is very irresponsible of you. The reason children are "thrown away in a garbage cans and school bathrooms" is because the mother is unable or unwilling to cope, in the correct manner, with an unwanted pregnancy.
I do not, in any way, fear homosexuals. I find the methods they use to advance their agenda of social engineering, deplorable. As I stated above, they refuse to present both sides of the issue in a balanced forum.
Now, let's reintroduce the Biblical take on this, which to me, is the bottom line that eclipses all other arguments.
Homosexuality is a sin according to the Bible. From God's standpoint, it is no worse and no better than any other sin. God sees all sin the same, whether it's murder, adultery, theft, lying or even cursing. All of us have sinned and because of that are separated from God. It is only through our belief in Jesus Christ, as the Lord and Savior that we can be reunited with God.
In order for me to accept the homosexual lifestyle as being "normal" and "good", I'd have to go against what Jesus, the Apostles and the Bible teaches that we are to do when confronted with unrepentant sin. To encourage someone to continue sinning goes against everything Jesus teaches. At no time did Jesus ever associate with unrepentant sinners. He actually called them a "brood of vipers". All the people who came to Him were sinners who wanted to stop sinning and start living a life for God.
Nan, You're not the first person who has accused me of being "unloving" of people and "intolerant". Believe me, I've been called a lot worse. These are just "buzz words" that attempt to shame the person who holds to a strong belief into submitting. I'm so immune to that.
But let me ask, who is more loving? The person who allows another to sin without saying anything about it, or the person who is willing to take personal attacks in order to tell someone "I love you like Jesus does; please turn from your sin and live life the way He asked us to"? It is the latter. I love all people. It would be so much more pleasant to just ignore not only the sin of homosexuality, but all sin and not say anything about it. I'd catch a lot less flack that's for sure. But the Bible tells us to Contend for the faith and spread the Word of God to the world. That includes pointing out what the Bible teaches about all subjects, ever when that teaching runs contrary to social mores.
I'm sure you are a good parent and I congratulate you on raising a daughter who will be responsible in today's uncertain world. It takes a lot to raise good kids these days.
I too am glad that Jesus is Lord. It is only by His grace and mercy that I am saved from sin. He is truly an Awesome God and I worship Him for loving me so much.
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