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California wants lesbians as mandatory 'role' models ~ Family advocates call plan 'worst school sexual indoctrination ever'

~ The Rebel ~ 2011/02/12 18:26:56

Lawmakers in the state of California are proposing a law that would require schools to portray lesbians, homosexuals, transsexuals and those who have chosen other alternative sexual lifestyles as positive role models to children in all public schools there.


"SB 48: The worst school sexual indoctrination ever" is how officials with the Campaign for Children and Families describe the proposal, SB 48, sponsored by state Sen. Mark Leno.


Openly homosexual, Leno boasts on his website of founding a business with his "life partner, Douglas Jackson," who later died of AIDS complications.


That description as "worst" is considerable, considering the Campaign for Children and Families was a key player in the battle in the state in 2007 and 2008 over a variety of laws that now forbid any "adverse" portrayal of those alternative sexual choices in school, class, curriculum and by teachers.



On its website, the organization explains the plan by "homosexual activist" Leno "would require all students in social studies class to admire 'lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender' role models.













"The Democrat state legislators pushing this radical bill want to recruit boys and girls to support the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda, personally and publicly," the organization's Action Alert explains.


"They want them to become 'LGBTIQ' activists [and] help trample religious freedom, free speech, parental rights, business-owner rights, private property rights, the Boy Scouts, and everything else you hold dear."


Equality California, an organization that advocates for homosexuality, said others sponsoring the plan include Sen. Christine Kehoe, D-San Diego; Assembly member Tom Ammiano, D-San Francisco; Assembly member Toni Atkins, D-San Diego; Assembly member Rich Gordon, D-San Mateo; and Assembly member Ricardo Lara, D-East Los Angeles.


On his state website, Leno expressed his worry: "Most textbooks don't include any historical information about the LGBT movement, which has great significance to both California and U.S. history.


"Our collective silence on this issue perpetuates negative stereotypes of LGBT people and leads to increased bullying of young people. We can't simultaneously tell youth that it's OK to be yourself and live an honest, open life when we aren't even teaching students about historical LGBT figures or the LGBT equal rights movement," he said.


He said it is confirmed that where schools promote homosexual lifestyles, those who exhibit that lifestyle "are treated more fairly by their teachers and peers."


But the Campaign for Children and Families, which teaches people to stand up for "what's right in God's sight" and encourages them to challenge "liberal forces" and "impact the next generation," is promoting a campaign to have state residents contact state officials with their own concerns


The message warns that if the plan becomes law, "children as young as kindergarten will be taught to admire homosexuality, same-sex 'marriages,' bisexuality, and transsexuality.'"


"Children will be enticed into political activism in support of everything pushed by 'lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, intersex and questioning' political groups, as the bill requires 'particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society.'"


Further, it would require that "teachers will be made to positively portray homosexuality, same-sex 'marriages,' bisexuality, and transsexuality … because to be silent opens them up to the charge of 'reflecting adversely.'"


"This is radical, in-your-face sexual indoctrination that parents genuinely don't want and children certainly don't need," the statement says.


The California Legislative Counsel's commentary on the plan affirms it would "require instruction in social sciences to also include a study of the role and contributions of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans … to the development of California and the United States."


It also would require "alternative and charter schools" to "take notice of the provisions of this bill."


The law itself requires that schools teach "particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society."


The Campaign for Children and Families, run by executive Randy Thomasson, notes that it would demand that school boards select textbooks and other materials that actively promote homosexuality, because to be silent "opens them up to charges of 'reflecting adversely.'"


It also notes parents would not be able to exempt their children from the mandatory teaching.


Thomasson told WND that this is the next progression following a multitude of earlier laws adopted in California that serve the dual purpose of cracking down on traditional families and promoting the "alternatives."


"The California public schools are no longer safe places for boys and girls morally," he told WND. "This new bill, SB 48, reflects the desire of the Democrat state legislators to recruit boys and girls to support the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda both personally and publicly."


Under the law, he said, "textbooks, teachers and school boards will be forced to promote homosexuality, same-sex 'marriage,' bisexuality, transsexuality, sex change operations, cross dressing as positive role models."


"Pushing this slop bucket in the face of impressionable kids is disgusting to most people," he said.


It was just two years ago when the Campaign launched the Rescue Your Child effort to encourage parents to withdraw their children from public schools because of such indoctrination.


That followed work by the legislature and then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to establish Senate Bill 777 and Assembly Bill 392 as law. Those institutionalized the promotion of homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism and other alternative lifestyle choices by banning any "adverse" references in schools.







Homosexual former San Francisco leader Harvey Milk


At the time, officials said SB 777 "functionally requires public school instructional materials and school-sponsored activities to positively portray cross-dressing, sex-change operations, homosexual 'marriages,' and all aspects of homosexuality and bisexuality, including so-called 'gay history.'"


The second bill, AB 394, "requires public schools to distribute controversial material to teachers, students, and parents which promotes transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, all under the guise of 'anti-harassment' training."


Those laws ban in any school texts, events, class or activities any discriminatory bias against those who have chosen alternative sexual lifestyles, according to Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for Capitol Resource Institute.


But there are no similar protections for students with traditional or conservative lifestyles and beliefs. Offenders will face the wrath of the state Department of Education, up to and including lawsuits.


California also has mandated that public schools honor Harvey Milk – a homosexual activist and reported sexual predator, as well as an advocate for Jim Jones, leader of the massacred hundreds in Jonestown, Guyana.


SaveCalifornia.com led a statewide battle against "Harvey Milk Day" before California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed the S.B. 572.


The bill designates May 22 – Milk's birthday – a date of "special significance" and encourages all California public schools to "conduct suitable commemorative exercises … remembering the life of Harvey Milk and recognizing his accomplishments as well as the contributions he made to this state."

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  • Thomas Rea: Gay Christian A... 2011/02/17 13:07:49
    Thomas Rea: Gay Christian Advocate
    If I had a LGBT role model in school. I would have discover myself sooner than in my early 30's.
  • Mikey Pooh 2011/02/16 15:23:19
    Mikey Pooh
    Progress is wrong. I, for one, wish we lived back in the 50's and 60's when the men were forced to be men and the women were forced to be in the kitchen. Or even earlier before people could even vote unless they were white males... Ahhh.. The simpler times. They were good ones. No one preached about "equality" for all people and prejudice wasn't only accepted... Damnit, it was the law and we liked it that way.

    Who are these homosexuals, anyway? You want to be treated as equals? Well start paying taxes... Oh you pay taxes? Well, stop looking at my junk at the gym, I am not a piece of meat... Oh, just because you are a gay male and I am a male doesn't mean you wanna jump my bones? Well, stop trying to form "families" and raise intelligent kids and stop telling them that it's ok to be "different"... Damn it, this country wasn't founded on people being different and being able to express it... Tell me where in the constitution that it says you can be yourself and speak your mind... Oh, always with the Bill of Rights...

    Sorry, I just felt the need to jump on the side of inequality for a moment to see how the world looks with my head up my own rear... Murky, dark, and a very pleasant aroma... No wonder you guys are always so cantankerous. Pull your head out for a second and see the light. You may like the view.
  • RageFury 2011/02/14 04:30:42
    RageFury
    +2
    Who the role models are should be up to the parents and not legislated.
  • Rainy 2011/02/13 14:52:37
    Rainy
    +1
    "Mandatory role models"???????? Hmmm.
    Role models are people with talents that hold the admirer in awe. Role models have something the admirer wishes he or she had. They show the admirer that his or her goals are possible because they have done it. They give him or her something to cling to and strive for.
    I don't see how any Mandatory role model will do that, give that child something to strive for. That is like saying that everyone is required to admire Kobe Bryant. It doesn't matter if he or she cannot stand basketball. They are still required to admire him. Or Julia Childs...everyone must admire her for her cooking abilities and quick wit. But not everybody likes to cook or likes her wit.
    This proposal and those backing it are really pushing the limits of stupidity. I don't care that this whole thing is to promote gay/lesbian/whatever/whatever. Requiring the whole to admire a few is utterly ridiculous, no matter what it is.
  • FREED Jesus is LORD♥ 2011/02/13 13:36:09
    FREED Jesus is LORD♥
    +1
    Talk about brain washing.... we are leading our children and thus America into further decline ...
    Next we'll be children pedophilia is the norm and pedophiles are role models. And we wonder what wrong with our country?????
  • Don 2011/02/13 12:23:55
    Don
    +1
    California seriously needs to have a purge - up against the wall and shot to deliver a message - don't do this again.
  • Katherin 2011/02/13 06:42:40
    Katherin
    +2
    "More of the progressive attack on our society. This is why we cannot trust homosexuals around our children, and why we must get rid of the homosexual activists out of our public education system and churches."
    -----

    I have never heard anything more hateful an ridiculous in my life.
  • ihavewebfeet 2011/02/13 02:39:52
    ihavewebfeet
    +1
    How about having the students pick role models based on what someone has actually achieved in their lives and not because of some arbitrary aspect of their life?
  • William 2011/02/13 00:48:53
    William
    +1
    Sorry in advance to the Conservatives trapped in Cali at the moment. I wish California would drop into the ocean already.
  • eyeballz 2011/02/13 00:39:40
    eyeballz
    +2
    The stupidity just keeps growing just like a cancer !
  • Arch Stanton 2011/02/13 00:33:30
    Arch Stanton
    All will soon bow before the future Oyster-Gobbler-In-Chief.

    bow future oyster-gobbler-in-chief
  • Robin B 2011/02/13 00:33:01
    Robin B
    +1
    Enough already! I am so sick of people thinking their sexual preference is a topic for discussion in public schools! Just an idea but how about we teach reading, writing, math, science, social studies, and simple respect for both self and others.
  • Doc. J 2011/02/13 00:00:11
    Doc. J
    Show me the proposed law, NOT an antagonistic interpritation of it, and I'll consider passing some sort of judgement, unitll then hysterical "Oh my god, the CHILDREN!!" rehtoric is not going to change my open support of the gay comunities search for equal rights under civil law in the United States.
  • QueenShebaVIII 2011/02/12 23:56:22 (edited)
    QueenShebaVIII
    +1
    I don't think there's any need for it to have to be in school. Having positive role models for children is great and if they happen to be gay, lesbian or transsexual that's just as great, but I think it's better to be showing the LGBT as ordinary people if this is an attempt to make children open minded about it.
    I do think it would be great to have Harvey Milk taught about in school a bit.
  • wtw 2011/02/12 23:45:49
    wtw
    No we really need rapist and pedophiles as examples. At least pedopjiles and rapist desire to procreate! They actually give to society. Lesbians and gay males produce nothing and are anti-natural. If all were lesbian or gay males--society would collapse. That my freind means they are not pro-society!
  • QueenSh... wtw 2011/02/12 23:55:03
    QueenShebaVIII
    Your thoughts are disgusting. Do you really think procreating is giving to society? Ever heard of overpopulation? Some people not having children helps society.
  • wtw QueenSh... 2011/02/13 00:07:42 (edited)
    wtw
    +1
    That is indeed disgusting and that is the point! They point out an absurdity. Gays and lesbians want us to legitimize them! I refuse to normalize or legitimize there abnormal sex acts. I have the right to beleive they are not normal. They are a minority that screams always to legitimize there abnormal sex. I do not deny them rights as humans. They should even have the same rights as any married persons but it is not marraige. I do not beleive in bashing or even taunting gay people. I would fight against anyone taunting or demaeaning gays. They are people just like me. I respect people!
  • QueenSh... wtw 2011/02/13 00:10:48
    QueenShebaVIII
    You do completely have the right to not support homosexuality. For the same reason as this, I have the right to think you're disgusting for ever comparing gay people to paedophiles and rapists. But, except for that part of your comments, I respect your views.
  • wtw QueenSh... 2011/02/13 00:33:58
    wtw
    +1
    Thank you. I am not even closely comparing gays to pedophiles or rapist--I am sorry and not desirous of comparing them as such. I think pedophiles and rapist need locked up and the key thrown away. I am getting a little tired of all the focus on sex as defining life. It gets old and really demeaning to the real meaning of life to me. My point is a lot more complex and harder to explain. It involves a basic argument of life and the meaning of life--I do need to be careful about expecting others to understand --I appreciate you talking to me--I really care about people and don't want to come off as I fear you have taken me--my bad!
  • QueenSh... wtw 2011/02/13 00:40:00
    QueenShebaVIII
    +1
    That's okay, I suppose I did misunderstand your opinion slightly. I'm glad your opinions on this subject aren't as bad as others' on this page who can say that homosexuals aren't humans.
  • ihavewe... wtw 2011/02/13 02:37:47
    ihavewebfeet
    What is wrong with you?

    By extension, you are saying that straight people who choose not to have children are also "anti-society" and "anti-natural" (good grief, that is a stupid term you came up with), as well.

    Basing another person's worth on the number of children they have is the dumbest thing I've ever heard. Well, the dumbest thing I've heard today, by far.
  • wtw ihavewe... 2011/02/13 05:32:22
    wtw
    That is not what I am trying to say! Everyone has worth unless they have no respect for life ot harm others.
  • ihavewe... wtw 2011/02/16 04:09:32
    ihavewebfeet
    That you would put a rapist or pedophile above gay people is repulsive.
    And that is EXACTLY what you said in the post above.
  • TruBluTopaz 2011/02/12 23:26:30
    TruBluTopaz
    +2
    At some point California is going to end up being a home for illegals that are rampanting procreating and gays, which cannot except with the intervention of medical assistance. What a failure.
  • Pat 2011/02/12 23:26:13
    Pat
    +1
    I don't know why any sane person would live in that state. I suspect most of those living there are okay with such a law. I mean, after all, they keep reelecting people like pelosi!
  • Yuki ~ ♦Lion King of PHÆT♦ 2011/02/12 22:45:33 (edited)
    Yuki ~ ♦Lion King of PHÆT♦
    +3
    Lawmakers in the state of California are proposing a law that would require schools to portray lesbians, homosexuals, transsexuals and those who have chosen other alternative sexual lifestyles as positive role models to children in all public schools there.

    Number one. It's not a 'choice'. That's your first mistake, CA. Secondly-- schools should never be required to do so. Gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals-- they're all normal people. It wouldn't hurt for teachers to reinforce that through their own attitude, and perhaps including those orientations in high-school sex education classes wouldn't be a bad idea, but I just don't agree with this. This is pushing it too far. All I want is for the government to provide LGBT people with equal rights so that we can live our life the way we want-- tolerance will come when people see they have family members, friends, coworkers, and classmates who are gay. I don't think forcing it into schools is a good idea. In fact, I think that it's a horrible idea.

    I, personally, have always admired Johnny Weir, who recently came out as gay. But I wouldn't want kids being taught or forced to admire him because he's gay. I'd want performing arts teachers to point him out as a good role model because of his skill and dedication-- that he's ga...

    Lawmakers in the state of California are proposing a law that would require schools to portray lesbians, homosexuals, transsexuals and those who have chosen other alternative sexual lifestyles as positive role models to children in all public schools there.

    Number one. It's not a 'choice'. That's your first mistake, CA. Secondly-- schools should never be required to do so. Gays, lesbians, bisexuals, transsexuals-- they're all normal people. It wouldn't hurt for teachers to reinforce that through their own attitude, and perhaps including those orientations in high-school sex education classes wouldn't be a bad idea, but I just don't agree with this. This is pushing it too far. All I want is for the government to provide LGBT people with equal rights so that we can live our life the way we want-- tolerance will come when people see they have family members, friends, coworkers, and classmates who are gay. I don't think forcing it into schools is a good idea. In fact, I think that it's a horrible idea.

    I, personally, have always admired Johnny Weir, who recently came out as gay. But I wouldn't want kids being taught or forced to admire him because he's gay. I'd want performing arts teachers to point him out as a good role model because of his skill and dedication-- that he's gay just happens to be a part of who he is, but no one is defined by their sexuality.

    Politics is like a pendulum. After the Enlightenment came Romanticism. After years of anti-gay rhetoric, gays are pushing back, but things are being pushed back too much.
    (more)
  • JanHopkins 2011/02/12 22:23:42
    JanHopkins
    +2
    Since when is sexual orientation a subject to be addressed in school? I sent my kids to school to learn to read, write and do math. I regret that I allowed the public educational system to teach my children. I sure would not send my kids to school to learn about sexual activity and what the school finds acceptable. It is not the place for that kind of venue.
  • shadow 2011/02/12 22:13:09
    shadow
    +1
    How could anyone expect something respectful from a liberal like Arnold and his crew?
  • Scarlet 2011/02/12 22:05:13
    Scarlet
    +1
    I think it's silly to pass that law - Same as I would find it silly to pass a law stating role models should be straight. Sexual orientation is a part of someone - it's not all they are. Can not have role models because of what they do? Or does it have to be who they do that matter? Xx
  • 2010now 2011/02/12 21:48:38
    2010now
    +4
    I think most people (even those in CA) are getting fed up with perverts and their agendas.
  • MAMMY51♥POTL~PWCM~JLA♥ 2011/02/12 21:46:09
    MAMMY51♥POTL~PWCM~JLA♥
    +1
    California has turned into Sodom and Gomorrah.
  • BrianD3 2011/02/12 20:39:36
  • ur XLNC 2011/02/12 20:36:33
    ur XLNC
    +3
    The time has come for all HUMANS to pack up and leave California for safe ground. What remains after this departure needs to be nuked off the face of this planet.
  • katy 2011/02/12 20:31:39 (edited)
    katy
    +2
    What is wrong with the supporters of SB48?
    I think this is one of them now.......
    wrong supporters sb48



    California is getting worse by the minute. wrong supporters sb48 california minute wrong supporters sb48 california minute
  • Jana~ una chica loca 2011/02/12 20:22:24
    Jana~ una chica loca
    I think children should be taught about homosexuality, they are the ones that have to decide if they're going to be straight, bi or homosexual.
  • luigi1- in god we trust 2011/02/12 20:09:15 (edited)
    luigi1- in god we trust
    This is nothing new. CO has been doing this for years. Other states are following suit. the libs control the education system. They can do whatever they please.

    The public schools are now broke after many parents pulled their kids out of public school & put them in private schools or homeschool. This is what they wanted all along, a complete breakdown of the system.

    parents pulled kids public school private schools homeschool breakdown denver christmas gay parade parents pulled kids public school private schools homeschool breakdown denver gay parade
  • wysiwis 2011/02/12 20:03:14
    wysiwis
    +5
    Only in California! Those a$$h*les will push that being queer is OK, but won't defend equal rights for Christians!
  • luigi1-... wysiwis 2011/02/12 20:11:40
    luigi1- in god we trust
    It all started in CO. Denver cancelled the anual Christmas parade & replaced it with a Gay Parade. Then made it mandantory 2 hrs of alternate lifestlye training in public schools.
  • wysiwis luigi1-... 2011/02/12 21:45:01
    wysiwis
    +1
    Isn't that just great! Yet another place to take off my list!
  • Yuki ~ ... wysiwis 2011/02/12 23:30:32
    Yuki ~ ♦Lion King of PHÆT♦
    +1
    What equal rights are Christians being denied?

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