Californians — Call Today to Stop Controversial Curriculum

Several pro-homosexual bills that will dismantle our social framework and particularly affect the school curriculum are poised to become law in California.  Your help is needed today to stop these bills with a call or email to your legislator and to Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office. 

Today SB 1437 is scheduled to be voted on in the Assembly, and that is why your call or email is urgent.  Specific links and contact information are given below, so it will take you less than five minutes to act.

The first bill, SB 1441, has already passed both houses of the legislature and is already on the desk of Governor Schwarzenegger. It would forbid recipients of California government funding from portraying homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality in a negative light.

A critical bill is SB 1437, which is scheduled to be voted on today by the state Assembly. SB 1437 introduces the concepts of uncertain gender and sexual orientation into school instruction.  Most parents send their kids to school with the hope their child will learn what they need to know, practice good citizenship, and go on to higher education or other training. They do not expect their taxpayer dollars or their child’s time to be spent by someone pushing a new world order where a mom and a dad are optional, if not irrelevant, and gender and marriage can mean anything.

SB 1437 adds “gender” and “sexual orientation” to the things which must not be discriminated against in school instruction or activities. 

The existing list was essentially the same, except for the addition of “gender” and “sexual orientation.”< Legally, gender means sex, real or perceived, and includes transsexuality and transvestitism. Sexual orientation means heterosexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality. The intent of this law is to present all sexual lifestyles as equal, and to squash any disagreement.

Free speech is at risk here.

Tools of the Trade

SB1437 takes the tools that are meant to cultivate education, and uses them instead to plant acceptance of controversial sexual lifestyles.

Instruction and School Activities

Instruction can be anything a teacher or principal says, and for example, if it favors traditional marriage, or falling in love with someone of the opposite sex, it breaks the law because that would reflect adversely on a homosexual lifestyle. 

School activities that are boy/girl based in anyway, such as proms or sports, would be easily challenged or altered because they violate someone’s perceived gender.

Instructional Materials

Instructional materials means “all materials that are designed for use by pupils and their teachers as a learning resource, and help pupils to acquire facts, skills, or opinions”…

So, anything from children’s books, to handouts, to videos, to guest speakers, could include stories where two boys get married, assemblies that celebrate alternative sexual lifestyles, and movies with bisexual or transvestite themes, because to exclude them would be to discriminate against them.

Packing the curriculum with random sexuality is not in the best interest of young minds. Parents and teachers would have no right to openly disagree.  In a democracy we use our laws to promote our vision of society, and in this scenario sexual expression takes precedence over every other liberty, duty, moral principle, or institution.

Votes and Vetoes

After introducing this bill, Sheila Kuehl, (D., Santa Monica), added provisions to put information in textbooks about historical figures, noting their homosexuality, bisexuality, or transsexuality.  This drew the attention of the media, and enough negative public response to prompt the governor to say he would veto it.  Senator Kuehl removed those provisions, apparently hoping to prevent a veto. But the aim and inevitable outcome of this original bill is the same:  The state usurps the role of parents and elected school board members, and uses the authority of the classroom to make children accept sexual practices that go against the convictions of many families and teachers.

Action Alert

SB1437 is set to go before the Assembly today, quickly back to the Senate, and most likely on to Governor Schwarzenegger.  He will have 15 days to decide whether to sign it, veto it, or allow it to become law.

Please contact your Assemblyman by clicking here and entering your zip code. http://capwiz.com/familyleadernetwork/state/main/?
state=CA&view=myofficials.   Urge him or her to vote against it AND speak out against it. This will alert the Governor and the media that there is still strong opposition to this dreadful bill.

Please contact the Governor. During this election season the governor is asking for our votes, and we need his vetoes-on SB1437, AB606, AB1056, and SB1441.

Governor Schwarzenegger’s office numbers:

AB606 tells schools what they must do to promote gay lifestyles, on threat of losing funding.  SB1437 tells them what they cannot do to show any opposition to them, or to show support for the long held standards of marriage and family as the foundation of our society and welfare of children.  AB1056 establishes pilot programs that teach children to actively embrace various sexual lifestyles, and SB 1471, also by Kuehl, targets sex education programs, ensuring they are “comprehensive,” and unbiased toward any sexual preference.

Most schools have fences to keep out dangerous characters, but who will keep harmful laws away from children?  It is going to have to be our voices, our votes, and any influence we can exert upon lawmakers and fellow citizens to uphold principles of integrity.