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.
This is one of the stupidest things I've ever heard. What does removing gender specific terms from textbooks have to do with teaching the contributuions of homosexuals.
Not surprised that Christine (don't call me Chris) Kehoe is one of the signers of this bill.
Right you are. These guys are smart. As goes California and Texas, so goes the rest of the textbooks in the country. They are the only two states to approve their texts at the state level.
I'd like to know, too. Used to think it was Virginia, but lately that theory has been blown apart.
The atmosphere here in Texas is pretty conservative, but being one of the fasted growing states, we reap the unintended effect of the migration of liberal northeasterners with their communist worldviews. I'd say any state that has ammended their constitution to prohibit same-sex "marriage" AND civil unions should be pretty high on your list.
I think Arnold wants it to become law.
"Let the Mexicans have it back........."
Perhaps if California lost 3-5 million illegal VOTERS, perhaps we could go back to being the state that elected Ronald Reagan as governor.
It's too late. The tipping point has been passed. Get out now before you aren't allowed to leave. There is nothing left to do but turn out the lights and bring out the flag of the United States.........
Why do you hate the Mexicans so much?
(Joke!! :D)
As told by Goebbels. That's why I refer to Kuehl, Leno, Goldberg, and the rest of the CA legislators and activists whose life work is to destroy the concept of sexual, family, and gender normalies in society as the "Gay-stapo."
Why can't we let Mexico have California?
A few years ago, even I, a San Francisco resident, might have suggested that you were exaggerating. Not today. The way things are being portrayed in pop culture, we're getting to the point that girls are encouraged not to 'limit themselves' to boys as sex partners, and it's only a matter of time before guys are going to be treated the same.
Moving from the fake world to the all-too-real: after years of promising "we only want to be free to be who we are," there's no doubt about it anymore; the Gay-stapo wants the power only accorded by law to make everyone like they are, and to marginalize those who resist as archaic, hateful, and dangerous.
P.S.: I don't have this on authority, but I read somewhere that since Brokeback Mountain was released, sales of cowboy hats have plummeted.
Since Kalifornicate orders a LOTTA textbooks, this may be a problem for other States who actually retain sanity.
John Wayne Gacy.
William Bonin....
Patient Zero, (Air Canada steward)
Mothers and Fathers are a biological reality. These homosexual activist fanatics basically want to change reality by changing what is taught in public schools. How downright Orwellian!
You may be referring to syndicated talkhost Michael Medved, who at one time co-hosted the PBS program Sneak Previews that earlier introduced Roger Ebert and the late Gene Siskel to America.
I realized I was a social conservative when I picked up Medved's Hollywood vs. America and read what I had been thinking for years on a printed page at last (My Amazon.com review is here, titled "Read The Book Hollywood Doesn't Want You To Read.") Medved noted that the showbiz industry wanted to have it both ways when it comes to the influence it wields over its viewers -- they would say audiences are not affected by rampant violence, gore, profanity, and sexual depravity, but insisted on millions in fees for product placement of brand-name products. Medved specifically highlighted the bidding war over whether the alien in E.T. would eat M&Ms or Reese's Pieces (Reese's won out, and sales skyrocketed).
Back in 1987, in a call to a talk show on which two local film critics were guests, I told them of how frightening it was that two critically acclaimed R-rated movies involved non-judgmental plotlines centered around men having sex with underage girls (Wish You Were Here! and Rita, Sue & Bob Too). After predictably being dismissed as prudish for my point-of-view, I stunned the critics into silence when I asked them what they would think of an adult male who would take a teenage girl to see either of those films.
A "Brave New World" was EXACTLY what I was thinking... This is really a discrimination against straight people, the practice reference to or mention of any sexual relationship that is anatomically possible... that's what is being abolished from the schools. We're not only becoming too accepting, but we're acting as if anything relating to a male and female coming together is some sort of attack on homosexuality. Seriously, I do not understand that and I never will. Since when is being straight or having a Prom King and Queen discriminant of gays? People are all people and as people should be treated equally... not treated to the point where they abolish materials that contain information on what the normal family structure is from the places where children are raised in part. We don't need to confuse young children like this. We don't need to teach them that everything is OK. If this passes, this is one of the sickest forms of propoganda I have seen. This is just another step closer to eliminating the importance of family. Who knows, maybe someone is just concerned with overpopulation or wants to increase the extinction rate of the human race... Whatever.
We've been farked...
Link found at http://www.fark.com
We're reaching younger minds!
ummm... the problem is, it DOES take a man and woman to make a baby.
"ummm... the problem is, it DOES take a man and woman to make a baby."
well if you can convince everyone that gross promiscuity is a good thing then perhaps it isn't so far to challenging this rule as well.
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