Posted on 05/04/2006 5:04:33 AM PDT by A. Pole
A bill requiring students to learn about the contributions homosexuals have made to society and that would remove sex-specific terms such as "mom" and "dad" from textbooks has passed another hurdle on the way to becoming the law of the land in California.
Having already been approved by the state's Senate Judiciary Committee, SB 1437, which would mandate grades 1-12 buy books "accurately" portraying "the sexual diversity of our society," got the nod yesterday of the Senate Education Committee.
The bill also requires students hear history lessons on "the contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America."
"This bill is the most extreme effort thus far to transform our public schools into institutions of indoctrination that disregard all notions of the traditional family unit," said Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute. "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."
SB 1437 not only affects textbooks and instructional materials for kindergarten and grades 1-12, it also affects all school-sponsored activities.
"School-sponsored activities include everything from cheerleading and sports activities to the prom," said England. "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."
England also says the bill would likely do away with dress codes and would force the accommodation of transsexuals on girl-specific or boy-specific sports teams.
England says the measure amounts to unneeded social experimentation.
"SB 1437 disregards the religious and moral convictions of parents and students and will result in reverse discrimination," she said.
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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 1960s – 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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"We've been working since 1995 to try to improve the climate in schools for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender kids, as well as those kids who are just thought to be gay, because there is an enormous amount of harassment and discrimination at stake," Kuehl explained. "Teaching materials mostly contain negative or adverse views of us, and that's when they mention us at all."
"In textbooks, it's as if there's no gay people in California at all, so forget about it," she added.
Interesting. I guess soon textbook publishers will be referring to that site to write history books... if they're not doing so already.
What are they going to replace "mom" and "dad" with? Parent #1 and #2? or parent A and B? Why make an issue of the use of "mom" and "dad". We already have crimes committed by gays being hushed up, while crimes against gays make front page news.
Separation of school and state BUMP!
And all we need to do is figure out cold fusion, and we'll have all the energy we'll ever need from seawater!
The problem is that in the process of writing laws, legislators cannot resist the temptation to add restrictions and requirements. Even if they resist the temptation in the initial effort, they have to continue to resist, every time they meet, indefinitely. This is not a realistic expectation.
Money is power to legislators. To simply give away the money without restriction means they are giving away their power. This simply cannot happen over the long haul. It is like asking an elephant to dance ballet.
Creeping control by the government cannot be avoided. Not by ballot measures. Not by finely crafted legislation.
If the legislators don't layer up the law with restrictions within the first few years, the courts will do it for them.
The only way to avoid government control is to avoid the government.
I just, last Friday, called the school my daughter was suppossed to enroll in and told them we would not be enrolling her. I'll admit now that we've made that final decision to homeschool - I'm a little nervous. But when I read something like this about our CA schools I know there is NO other option.
Sounds that way to me! Which brings to light the dire need for parents to teach their children morality from day one. The brainwashing of our children continues and without a strong foundation, they'll become perfect prey. Makes me shudder to think about it!
No way. Change what you can. Protect your children. Get away from government schools.
But don't destroy the last refuge for children by introducing public money into private schools. Then there really will be no option for many parents intent on avoiding the government brain-washing that passes for public education these days.
That's so intolerant to heterosexuals. The sponsors of this bill are just cruel, hateful and mean-spirited.
Now we know why they used to call it a mental illness.
A bill requiring students to learn about the contributions homosexuals have made to society and that would remove sex-specific terms such as "mom" and "dad" from textbooks has passed another hurdle on the way to becoming the law of the land in California.
The democrat party -traversing the path to irrelevancy; one delusional absurd step another...
The love that dare not speak it's name...
now can't stop shouting!
And isn't happy until heterosexual love is the one that is erased from
the public domain.
homo-leninists
I think we should give California back to the mexicans because the people in both countries deserve each other.
Much of it was the followers of the Italian Gramsci, aka the "Critical Theorists." Critical Theory means criticize everything in the country you want to undermine and never, ever offer a solution to replace what you're undermining.
"accurately portraying "the sexual diversity of a mere 5% of our society,"
Substitute "perversity" for "diversity" to further fix.
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