Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Courtesy Sacramento Bee)
Posted on 05/25/2006 2:51:02 PM PDT by Conservative Coulter Fan
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger (Courtesy Sacramento Bee) |
Breaking a policy of not commenting on pending bills, a spokesman for Arnold Schwarzenegger says the California governor will veto at least one of three controversial education measures related to sexual orientation.
The governor opposes a measure passed by the Senate and pending in the Assembly that would remove "sex-specific" terms such as "mom" and "dad" from textbooks and would require students to learn about the contributions homosexuals have made to society, the Sacramento Bee reported.
SB 1437 passed the Senate May 11 with a 22-15 vote.
"The governor believes that school curriculum should include all important historical figures, regardless of orientation," said Schwarzenegger's director of communications, Adam Mendelsohn, according to the Bee. "However, he does not support the Legislature micromanaging curriculum."
Democratic state Sen. Sheila Kuehl, the openly lesbian author of the measure Schwarzenegger plans to veto, expressed disbelief that the governor already has made up his mind on a bill that still hadn't been vetted by one house of the Legislature, the Sacramento paper said.
"He hasn't made up his mind, I don't care what some underling might have said," insisted Kuehl, who said she had not spoken with the governor yet about the bill.
Kuehl plans to initiate a conversation when the measure gets to the Assembly floor.
"For them to take a position on it, I think is precipitous," she said. "There's nothing controversial about it. The right wing has drummed up a lot of old fears. Once people understand what it really does, the response is usually OK."
Seth Kilbourn, political director for the homosexual-rights group Equality California, called the governor's indication of opposition "disappointing."
Kilbourn doesn't see any political benefit in the governor rejecting the bill, with June being "Gay Pride Month."
"This would not be the best time for him to be doing that if he wanted to appear more friendly," Kilbourn told the Sacramento paper. "He's passed more pieces of legislation benefiting the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgendered) community – except for gay marriage – than any other governor."
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What is this country coming to? Rush always says it leans Conservative but it apeears to be getting more and more leftist and weird!
One thing to keep in mind in November:
Angelides and Westley would NOT veto these bills...
Even if Arnold is the GOP candidate in November, you have to hold your nose and vote for him or many, many, many bad laws (including Driver's Licenses for Illegal Aliens) will pass the state legislature and be signed by the Governor.
My cousin said that in Canada there is a clear-cut indicator of the orientation of males:
"Did you play hockey or did you go into figure skating?"
Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Ford, Alexander Hamilton, Sir Isaac Newton, Stephan Hawkins, Ronald Reagan, ect. al. I don't care about what they preferred sexually, it's none of our business. I care about what they did, what they invented and how they impacted the world.
Unfortunately, the schools can't manage to teach the important stuff; but they can find funds and time to waste on the PC crap. Then we'll sit and wonder why India and China are delivering brighter students than we are. Intellectually speaking, America is now the border-line retard in the Global classroom. And we can thank policies like this for putting us there.
Correct me if I am wrong, but is Governator the only male in the Kalifornia government who is hetero?
It sure seems so.
He got pregnant in one of his movies!
Scott Hamilton's straight. Married with kids. So are a lot of other male figure skaters.
I know it's hard to accept because so many of them dress and act in a way that would make Liberace look like Rock Hudson (heh), but that's the way life sometimes can be....
No thats just California, The land of fruits and nuts
(There's nothing controversial about it.)
Yeah, let's not even have a discussion about it because she says so! Notice that there's no quotes of anyone who agrees with the governator in the article. A well balanced article as usual from the MSM.
And the home of Free Republic, don't forget.....
The fact that a majority of our lawmakers approve of this, and it hangs on the veto of one man, tells us that this battle is all but lost.
Half my grandkids are out of the public schools, and I'm working on getting the rest out. Why would anyone let their kids be educated by people with that much contempt for their values, its beyond me.
That this even has to be said as an explanation of why proposed legislation will be vetoed, just shows how insane the California government has become. "RINO" or not, Arnold is Horatio at the Bridge on crazy stuff like this.
And the state where my grandaughter will be raised. Thank God,Mom & Dad are as straight and Conservative as they come.
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