Posted on 03/09/2006 5:10:14 AM PST by wagglebee
A traditional-values organization in California is warning the state's residents that a bill pending in the Legislature, if approved, could remove all references to gender in public schools – threatening even references to "mom" or "dad" in textbooks.
If the bill, SB 1437, were to become law, warns the Capitol Resource Institute, "it could potentially require gender-neutral bathrooms in our schools and all references to 'husband' and 'wife' or 'mom and dad' removed from school textbooks as the norm."
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Sponsored by Democratic Sen. Sheila Kuehl – a lesbian actress best known for playing Zelda in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" in the '60s – the legislation would add "gender" (actual or perceived) and "sexual orientation" to the law that prohibits California public schools from having textbooks, teaching materials, instruction or "school-sponsored activities" that reflect adversely upon people based on characteristics like race, creed and handicap.
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States Capitol Resource Institute on its website: "The reason this is such an outrageous bill is because it is the most extreme effort thus far to transform our public schools into institutions that disregard all notions of the traditional family unit. SB 1437 seeks to eliminate all 'stereotypes' of the traditional family so that young children are brainwashed into believing that families with moms and dads are irrelevant.
"The social experiment pro-homosexual activists have envisioned for our young children is mind-boggling!"
The organization notes the bill also applies to school activities, which include cheerleadering, sports and events like the prom.
"Under SB 1437, school districts would likely be prohibited from having a 'prom king and queen' because that would show bias based on gender and sexual orientation," said CRI. The measure also could affect issues like gender-specific sports teams.
Earlier this week, about 500 homosexual students gathered at the State Capitol in Sacramento to celebrate "Queer Youth Advocacy Day."
According to the Sacramento Bee, demonstrators voiced support for Kuehl's bill and AB 606, authored by Democrat Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, which addresses harassment and discrimination in schools.
"I refuse to settle for anything less than respect and equality in education," 16-year-old Garrett Rubin stated at the event. "I shouldn't have to be working so hard to get an education like everybody else."
The Bee reported participants also spoke out against AB 2311, authored by GOP Assemblyman Dennis Mountjoy, a bill that would prohibit the "promotion of homosexuality in public education."
The young protesters chanted: "Hey hey, ho ho, homophobia's got to go."
Traditional values group Campaign for Children and Families decried AB 606, which has passed the Assembly and likely will be approved in the state Senate.
"AB 606 would give inappropriate, draconian power to the California State Superintendent of Public Instruction to unilaterally withhold state funds from California school districts that don't promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality according to his arbitrary 'standards,'" stated an e-mail from the group. "This horrible bill essentially mandates the trans-bi-homosexual agenda in curriculum, textbooks, presentations and more. And because two-thirds of a school districts' funds come from the state, AB 606 would interrupt and destroy the academic learning of millions of California schoolchildren if schools 'don't comply.'"
Campaign for Children and Families is urging Californians to urge Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to veto the bill should it reach his desk.
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Zelda!! Fiddle with it semantically all you want, but your orientation will never be nothing more than an aberration!
Just get your kids out.
She is everything that Zelda is not. Tall, beautiful, and blonde. Zelda doesn't want to see two heteros pair up and drags dopey Dobie away from that relationship out of spite.
Heather has two parents caretakers.
This culture seems to be about "going too far". This is what you get when you allow "ends justify the means" thinking and
moral relativism to stand. It's called "reaping".
>>>Schools are being used to destroy our society!
As always.
I won't believe we are in a serious 'War on Terror' until the hammer is finally dropped on these special interest groups.
Heather has two parents caretakers.
Heather has two one or more caretakers.
Laugh in disbelief all you like! Remember the term 'gay rights'? When I first heard it way back when I almost fell over laughing. Now look.
Queer isn't a gender, its an abnormality!
Or notions of absolute, 100% normal humanity, for that matter.
And that's not hyperbole.
Why would you axe me a question like that?
http://www.kitchentablemath.net/twiki/bin/view/Kitchen/SexismInEverydayMath
Check out the third image to see some more things being banned in textbooks.
Thanks for the correction ... and you aren't a jerk. Well maybe you are, but not about this. =)
You're right. That's the way it used to be. Was it the PC crowd who forced "gender" to serve do double duty? And why? Was the word sex sexist?
Yet another story the Lame Stream Media will sit on.
It literally makes me sick what the Leftist Democrat politicians get away with in this country.
I know damn well this would not sit well with a majority of Americans. It is one more example of how the left get to operate in the dark. Any story that exposes Democrats true agenda never sees the light of day.
Thank God for FR.
mom and dad now a dirty word.
Two men , two women can make babies.
That is their reality.
Scarry.
This, like almost all the other problems parents face with our schools, could be fixed by changing from socialized schooling to capitalist, free market schooling. As long as people are willing to feed at the government trough and have their lifestyles subsidized by taking money from others to pay for their responsibilities, this sort of thing is unavoidable.
Heather has two parents caretakers.
Heather has two one or more caretakers.
Heather has one or more caretakers care providers.
This will definitely happen if alternative "marriages" ever become law. Those words will be deemed pejorative, hurtful or bigoted and fall under hatespeech laws.
It seems that "educators" in California do not want to wait until then.
I beg to differ.
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