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If you live in California or have friends in California, send this article on to them. We can only stop this outrageous new law that would sexually indoctrinate our school children if enough people quickly band together and successfully complete this petition to create a referendum on the bill. Family Leader California is in the thick of this battle and we need an army of volunteers to step forward — not just for the sake of their children, but for unborn generations to come. If we cannot stop this law from taking effect January 1st, we will never have the opportunity again. This is a doable job, but not easy one unless everybody stands up to help.

Those of us who do not live in California have a stake in this as well, because textbook publishers are national and books prepared for California may end up in your school.

We need you. Read below to see how you can help.

Most Californians don’t know what just hit them. The press has hardly mentioned it, but Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger recently signed into law a bill that is an outrageous attack upon the natural family and traditional values, turning schools essentially into indoctrination centers for homosexuality and alternate lifestyles.

“In California, sights have been set upon the schools as a place to sway the next generation to let go of the traditional notions of family and gender,” said Chris King, Family Leader California Communications Director.

Those who push this aggressive agenda know that if they can capture and distort the minds of our children regarding sexuality, they can radically change the culture.

SB777, which purports to be about creating safe schools, prohibits any "instruction" or school-sponsored "activity" perceived to "promote a discriminatory bias" against "gender." This means it would ban any textbooks, teaching or school activities from “reflecting adversely” upon homosexuality, bisexuality or transsexuality, including cross-dressing and sex-change operations.

Banned would be any factual discussion of the health risks of alternate lifestyles or any religious objections on the part of students.
“Under this latest advance toward a Brave New World of polymorphous perversion, California textbooks will no longer be able to use words like 'mother and father' and 'husband and wife,' because they suggest that heterosexuality is the norm,” said Alan Carlson of the World Congress of Families. “Unbelievably, the law even allows students to use the restrooms and locker rooms of the opposite sex if they identify with that gender.”

Carlson charges, "It will prohibit anything that suggests that the natural family — a man and a woman, married, with children — is normal or typical."

What does this mean? Here are some possible examples.

SB 777 will govern any school that is publicly funded, including public schools, charter schools, alternative schools and post high school institutions. “In short,” says King, “every California student in a school that receives any public money will be taught that all sexual lifestyles are equal.”

What’s a Parent to Do?

Once in awhile an issue comes along that is so important that you can’t ignore it without regretting it for years to come. This is one of those times. If this law goes into effect, there is no putting that genie back into the bottle, and not only this generation of children, but generations to come will be influenced.

Like so many parents, every morning I put a child on the bus to go to school, and I watch as she waves goodbye through the window, looking somewhat vulnerable, as I send her off to others, hoping they will not harm her mind or values in any way. California parents and grandparents no longer have an assurance that their children will not be harmed.

There is only one way to stop this law, and that is by putting it on the ballot next year in California. Family Leader California is joining the Capitol Resource Institute in a petition drive to gather 770,000 signatures on petitions to make this a referendum, requiring the people’s vote. If that petition gathers enough signatures, the law will be stayed until California citizens can vote on it.
But we only have 90 days to gather this huge number of signatures, and this means that you are needed.

You can help in two ways: