Posted on 06/22/2006 3:59:37 PM PDT by calcowgirl
SACRAMENTO-– A California legislative committee passed a bill yesterday that would force all public schools to promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality on campus.
The California Senate Education Committee approved AB 606 on a 7-to-2 party-line vote, Democrats for, Republicans against. The author is Assemblyman Lloyd Levine, a Los Angeles Democrat.
AB 606 would authorize the California Superintendent of Public Instruction to arbitrarily withhold state funds (around 2/3rds of a school district’s budget) from any district that does not adequately promote transsexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality in its school policies. AB 606 repeals the current state law prohibiting transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual curriculum from being forced upon local schools, and authorizes the state Superintendent to develop new curriculum that affirms transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality in all its forms.
Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, a leading California-based pro-family organization, testified before the committee in opposition to the measure. “This is the first time in history the Democrats have pushed a bill that threatens to arbitrarily yank school funding,” he told the committee. “By financially punishing schools that don’t promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality to students, AB 606 is even worse than the other sexual indoctrination bill that the Governor said he’ll veto.”
On May 24, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger’s office announced he would veto SB 1437, a bill that would make direct curriculum changes promoting transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality. “In contrast, AB 606 alters educational materials through the backdoor,” explained Thomasson.
AB 606 reads, “A school district shall establish and publicize an anti-discrimination and anti-harassment policy that prohibits discrimination and harassment based on the characteristics set forth in Section 422.55 of the Penal Code and Section 220, including, but not limited to, actual or perceived gender identity and sexual orientation” -- AB 606 234.1(a)(1).
“The Democrat legislators who passed AB 606 in the Assembly have attempted to portray this as a general anti-discrimination law designed to protect children in schools,” Thomasson explained. “In reality, AB 606 forces every California school to be a transsexual, bisexual and homosexual school, or else suffer crippling financial consequences.”
“The Governor should announce that he’ll veto AB 606, just like he said he’s going to veto the other sexual indoctrination bill,” emphasized Thomasson. “Conservatives are appalled that he’s raising money for homosexual activists who want to destroy marriage between a man and a woman. Schwarzenegger needs to brandish his veto pen now if he wants to try to earn back their support. Parents don’t want, and children don’t need, AB 606.”
Visit Campaign for Children and Families AB 606 Analysis and Action Center: http://www.savecalifornia.com/getactive/ab606analysis.php
http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/bill/asm/ab_0601-0650/ab_606_bill_20060123_amended_asm.html
AB 606, as amended, Levine Safe schools: discrimination and harassment.
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This bill would require a school district to establish and publicize an antidiscrimination and antiharassment policy that prohibits discrimination and harassment based on specified characteristics, including, but not limited to, actual or perceived gender identify and sexual orientation. The bill would require a school district to take specified actions related to increasing awareness of, preventing, and ensuring appropriate responses to, incidences of discrimination and harassment based on those protected characteristics. By requiring school districts to perform additional duties, the bill would impose a state-mandated local program.
This bill would provide that a complaint of noncompliance with its provisions may be filed with the department under the existing Uniform Complaint Procedures, as specified. The bill would allow the Superintendent of Public Instruction, if he or she determines that a school district is not in compliance, to use any means authorized by law to effect compliance, including, but not limited to, the withholding of all or part of the relevant state fiscal support of the school district.
Ping.
So glad I home school.
Defund them all.
“In contrast, AB 606 alters educational materials through the backdoor,”
Sometimes the jokes write themselves.
Calif. Senate....plumbing the depths that others won't.
California, oh what a suprise. The same state that mandates all 8th graders take a course in Islam and adopt Islamic names, something the ACLU completely ignores.
What makes you say that with such certainty?
These goat ropers won't rest until our public schools do nothing other than teach diversity training, sex education and proper techniques for condom installation. California is so screwed up I would gladly allow the Mexicans to annex the place.
I can't find that in the State Education code. Can you direct me to it please?
HeHeHe. Come on earthquake!
I will believe that when I hear about it.....
This is a blatant example of the liberal perverted filth that has a death grip on the state of California. And how it is using our government schools to INDOCTRINATE our kids into full perverted liberalism.
Thank God my kids are out of these camps of perversion and liberal trash.
Why do you wish death and destruction on millions of innocent people?
I heard that people in Tennessee have no front teeth, play the banjo, and marry their cousins. Should we wish disasters on them too?
Good one! Can we defund the legislature, too?
I was reading a book last night about taxes, where one woman was saying how in the late `70`s after Reagans term as Gov was over, California proposed to DOUBLE property taxes. She said she organized a petition drive, and eventually got so many signatures it was put on the election ballot and was voted down. She seemed so happy, but I was saying to myself I think she should have gone one step better; moved the hell out of that state entirely.
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