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Please take a couple of moments for 1.38 million NJ schoolchildren
Life. Liberty. Family. ^ | 01/04/11 | Dov W

Posted on 01/04/2011 10:56:05 AM PST by BenBagBag

What could be wrong with a tough new law targeting gay-bullying in our schools that is now sitting on Governor Christie's desk?

After all, the activist Gay and Lesbian groups that spent over a year writing the language of the bill are publicly describing it as the "most sweeping anti-bullying legislation in America".

Isn't it a good thing that New Jersey will become the national leader in the fight against gay bullying?

Isn't it good that New Jersey will be bringing law-enforcement into our children's classrooms in ways that no other State has ever done before?

Gay and Lesbian groups are right when they say that it's about time that New Jersey takes a tough line against bullying.

But this law, which requires mandatory teaching of a "week of respect" and mandatory year-round classroom teaching, stands, per the New York Times, to be used by Gay and Lesbian groups to indoctrinate school children of the "need" for gay marriage*.

Gay and Lesbian groups have publicly admitted that one reason the law is the most sweeping of its kind in America is because it "applies to schools from kindergarten" and up. If Gay and Lesbian groups get their way, outrageously, gay marriage will be taught to New Jersey's pre-schoolers.

And Gay and Lesbian groups are not telling you and me that if Governor Christie signs this law, our schools could be teaching pre-school children to direspect their own parents if they are against gay marriage**.

Do our kindergarten kids really need gay marriage forced down their throats during a required annual "week of respect"?

Do our pre-school kids need a "week of respect" that teaches them to disrespect their own parents?

Is teaching gay marriage in kindergarten the new education reform that Governor Christie had in mind for New Jersey?

The clock is now ticking and the deadline for the Governor to take action on this bill is only hours away.

This is a real emergency and we must take action now.

You can make a real difference.

Call Governor Christie as soon as you can and tell him that we care about the pre-school kids of New Jersey.

Tell Governor Christie that he needs to put a stop to activist Gay and Lesbian groups taking over the education of our pre-school children.

Tell Governor Christie to veto the activist Gay and Lesbian "week of respect". 

There are 1.38 million schoolchildren in New Jersey's Public School system, please take a couple of moments out of your busy day to, right here and right now, do three things to show you care:

1) Please sign this online petition

2) Please call Governor Christie at 609-292-6000 and tell him to veto the "week of respect"

3) Please send the above in email to everyone you know who cares for 1.38 million schoolchildren

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* "liberals and gay rights groups are using the antibullying banner to pursue a hidden “homosexual agenda,” implicitly endorsing, for example, same-sex marriage", "In Efforts to End Bullying, Some See Agenda", New York Times, November 7, 2010, page A16, quoting parents and activists. This is no idle claim. On its website, the leading national Gay and Lesbian organization involved in anti-bullying legislation, GLSEN, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network,  recommends Uncle Bobby's Wedding  a text promoting gay marriage for all Elementary school grades.
** Publisher's Weekly describes GLSEN's all Elementary school grades recommended Two Moms, The Zark, And Me as a "mean-spirited, sniping" attack on adults with traditional values. See the complete review posted on Amazon.com


TOPICS: Activism/Chapters; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: New Jersey
KEYWORDS: 2manycommies; 2manyqueers; antibullying; armyofsodom; arth; chrischristie; christie; gayagenda; homosexualagenda; homosexualmarriage; pinkpanthers; sodomrising; stockpilesong; veto
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Let's do this for NJ kids...
1 posted on 01/04/2011 10:56:12 AM PST by BenBagBag
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To: BenBagBag

What has Christie said about this?

I can even bewgin to imagine he would support it

He is too smart to fall for the “anti-bullying” title

I can picutre him at a new conference “this has nothing to do with bullying- this is promoting gay agenda under the disguise of a nice name and I am not going to sign this baloney”


2 posted on 01/04/2011 11:02:54 AM PST by Mr. K
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To: BenBagBag

If there was truly any need for a special “anti-bullying” law, then that need existed regardless of and without current media-mantra attention about “bullying” with respect to a single demographic of the population - “gays”.

Yet, prior to this media-mantra issue, cities, towns and schools had at their disposal laws and school regulations to address an issue of a “bully’s” actions crossing the line from mere speech to behavior involving violence, intimidation with violence, stalking, disruption of a classroom, physical assault and many other infractions of law and regulations - WITHOUT ANT SPECIFIC “BULLYING” LAW.

So, let us all NOT be surprised that the language of this New Jersey law demonstrates that for it too the issue IS NOT about being a “bully” it’s about being “gay”; and thus THAT is the focus of the education mandates in the law. Why should we have expected anything less?


3 posted on 01/04/2011 11:08:55 AM PST by Wuli
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To: BenBagBag
I want to say that queer, or any sexual issues other than teachers humping their students, kind of do not belong in schools or legislation.

Just can not help myself sometimes.

4 posted on 01/04/2011 11:11:15 AM PST by mmercier
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To: BenBagBag

It’s about controlling what you can say and think about gays from your earliest years. It’s mind control.

Bullying already is not allowed, we don’t need anti gay bullying education and “respect” anymore than we need a week of respect given to heterosexual BJ’s.

In fact, I damn well want a week dedicated to the latter before the former gets anything. /s


5 posted on 01/04/2011 11:12:44 AM PST by Williams (It's the policies, stupid.)
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To: BenBagBag

Hey, maybe the ACLU can help Christians win a “week of respect”??


6 posted on 01/04/2011 11:17:06 AM PST by G Larry (When you're right, avoid compromise!)
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To: Wuli

Knew an old fellow who interrupted one of his wife’s social gatherings when they started talking about “gay rights”, by reminding them “we are talking about one man blank another man blank blank blank.”

How in hell can that be a subject in kindergarten? To these liberal kooks “gay” is some higher form of spirituality, as is “muslim” or any “minority” (including women who aren’t a minority) or anything “green” (which usually isn’t). It’s not reality it’s just leftist agenda.


7 posted on 01/04/2011 11:17:48 AM PST by Williams (It's the policies, stupid.)
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Christy is a RINO....Christy will do what RINOs do and sign the bill.....
8 posted on 01/04/2011 11:30:17 AM PST by rightwingextremist1776
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Leave it to the liberal agenda - They used to say “You can’t legislate morality.” Libs believe you can legislate ANYTHING! Go figure.

“Public schools are the nurseries of all vice and immorality.”
-Henry Fielding (1707–1754) Not much has changed, eh?


9 posted on 01/04/2011 11:32:53 AM PST by Jenny217
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To: BenBagBag

Why is it that anything to do with “bullying” or “safe schools” (see: NAMBLA “safe schools czar” Kevin Jennings) has a ‘homosexual flavor’ to it? You’d almost think the tolerant left was trying to brainwash or indoctrinate the next generation or something.


10 posted on 01/04/2011 11:47:07 AM PST by YankeeReb
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To: rightwingextremist1776
Christy is a RINO....Christy will do what RINOs do and sign the bill.....

We shall see. Hopefully he is back from vacation.

11 posted on 01/04/2011 11:48:26 AM PST by frogjerk (I believe in unicorns, fairies and pro-life Democrats.)
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To: BenBagBag

These freaks will be horrified to know what I tell my children about these freaks, and what God (who could not be wrong) did to them.


12 posted on 01/04/2011 11:59:17 AM PST by kearnyirish2
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To: BenBagBag

If Christie signs this, there is NO WAY he will ever get my vote for President. Not that he would anyhow, being the hoplophobe he is...


13 posted on 01/04/2011 12:43:19 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (The future? Imagine Cass Sunstein's boot stamping on Lincoln's beard, forever.)
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To: kearnyirish2

He put a little Romans 1 on them...


14 posted on 01/04/2011 12:51:34 PM PST by backwoods-engineer (The future? Imagine Cass Sunstein's boot stamping on Lincoln's beard, forever.)
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To: frogjerk

Governor Christie is neither an out-and-out RINO nor a true social conservative. He is very comfortable with gay civil unions and very uncomfortable with gay marriage (either out of conviction or political alliances with social cons).

So far, social conservative opposition to the bill has failed to capture the public imagination amid a failure to focus on a message that has traction with the public at large. For example, concerns about the free-speech threat to the first amendment rights of kids and teachers to tell gays in and out of school that there is no gay gene have failed to arouse popular anger and protest.

This article is a welcome, albeit, last-minute attempt to change that by focusing on an issue that Joe six-pack can relate to.

The Gov has kept totally silent on the issue and is waiting for the last minute to move. He has probably made his decision more on the basis of policy and law than on any moral considerations. He has three options:

1) Ignore the bill and it automatically becomes law. This is unlikely because Governor Christie is too “in your face” to do nothing.

2) Veto it entirely. Unlikely because the risk of override by the State Senate is too great.

3) Veto it conditionally as long as offending sections chosen by the Gov are not removed. It then goes back to both Assembly and Senate. Intel from a reliable source is that the Gov is expected to use a conditional veto. It would take 2/3 of the Senate (the Assembly is a foregone conclusion) to override the veto and depending on what he vetos, the rationale he uses and a rallying of some public support for his position he may or may not survive an over-ride.

A big question for social conservatives is whether he will use the conditional veto on the “week of respect” and teaching parts of the bill.


15 posted on 01/04/2011 12:56:45 PM PST by BenBagBag (Christie veto)
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To: BenBagBag

Petition URL lost in formatting: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/veto-njs-week-of-respect/

Please sign


16 posted on 01/04/2011 3:26:19 PM PST by BenBagBag (Christie veto)
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To: BenBagBag
"Let's do this for NJ kids... "

They are not NJ's kids...They are the U.S. governments children...Therefore, the groveling serfs who turned their former offspring over to those who operate the government indoctrination asylums should just zip it!

17 posted on 01/04/2011 4:02:20 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is another agitator for republicanism like Sam Adams when we need him?)
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To: BenBagBag; 2Jedismom; 6amgelsmama; AAABEST; aberaussie; Aggie Mama; agrace; AliVeritas; AlmaKing; ..

ANOTHER REASON TO HOMESCHOOL

This ping list is for the “other” articles of interest to homeschoolers about education and public school. This can occasionally be a fairly high volume list. Articles pinged to the Another Reason to Homeschool List will be given the keyword of ARTH. (If I remember. If I forget, please feel free to add it yourself)

The main Homeschool Ping List handles the homeschool-specific articles. I hold both the Homeschool Ping List and the Another Reason to Homeschool Ping list. Please freepmail me to let me know if you would like to be added to or removed from either list, or both.

18 posted on 01/06/2011 10:57:31 PM PST by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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To: SuperLuminal
They are not NJ's kids...They are the U.S. governments children...Therefore, the groveling serfs who turned their former offspring over to those who operate the government indoctrination asylums should just zip it!

That's right. Public school parents throw their kids to the lions, because they want the extra paycheck more than their kids. Other parents are just too lazy to raise their own kids. Either way, they feel they're off the hook. They just sit around, complain and blame it on someone else.

School choice was once a big issue, but parents didn't want the hassle of possibly being responsible for the kids transportation. It was easier for them to just let the kids rot away in the public schools and play ignorant.

19 posted on 01/07/2011 7:34:07 AM PST by concerned about politics ("Get thee behind me, Liberal")
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To: BenBagBag

Its a bad law for this and more.

Its just another one of these “single incidence” name game type laws enacted out of alleged grief for a victim.

I thought I read somewhere this guy had taken the videos himself and he actually committed suicide for another reason.

Chris Chistie will check with his RINO boss, Tom Kean Senior, and then sign it.


20 posted on 01/07/2011 2:01:48 PM PST by ZULU (No nation which tried to tolerate Islam escaped Islamization.)
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