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Dobson: Tell Arnold to halt 'gay' agenda
WorldNetDaily ^ | August 24, 2006

Posted on 08/24/2006 12:19:01 PM PDT by scripter

Christians and non-Christians alike should be alarmed by the advance in California of a series of legislative proposals that target free speech and thought, according to Focus on the Family Action.

James Dobson, the president of the action affiliate of Focus on the Family ministries, has issued an urgent call to the millions of radio program listeners to contact California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger before he is asked to sign the bills.

"What all four bills will do, they will reinforce homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism in a positive light," Focus State Issues Analyst Mona Passignano told WorldNetDaily.

So what's wrong with a positive light? Maybe nothing.

But, she said, "They will keep people from saying anything negative about them."

"You cannot preach the Gospel. If you want to preach about Romans 1, you can't. Someone could say, 'That makes me feel bad,'" she said. "You cannot preach what the Bible says.

"If you're a Christian, it's got to be alarming. If you are not a Christian, it's got to be alarming," she said. "Because what comes next?

"Is someone going to say, 'You can't drive a red car, that's the color of heterosexuals. You have to drive a purple car?"

She said she explains the nuances that could become law by referencing "Nazi Germany."

"It's just a historical fact, but you could make Germans feel bad every time you say Nazi Germany," she said. "The (California) bills say you can't say anything negative."

Dobson, who founded Focus in California more than two decades ago, said if those proposals become law, the California Legislature will deliver the state's children "straight into the arms of the homosexual activist community."

The four proposals are SB1437, SB1441, AB1056 and AB606. Some already have been approved by lawmakers, others await their final outcome.

Among the new laws would be one to ban the state from doing business with any company or group that does not provide benefits to workers with "domestic partners" equal to the benefits offered workers with spouses, according to Concerned Women for America.

Penny Harrington, who is the legislative liaison for Concerned Women for America of San Diego and Imperial Counties, noted there's no conscience clause, which usually is included to allow religious organizations to continue to be faithful to their beliefs.

"It's pretty ironclad," she said.

Another has a requirement for "sensitivity" training for foster parents, group home staff members and social workers about "challenges faced by gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender youth."

It also leaves to social workers to decide whether children are old enough to "consider himself or herself affiliated with a particular religion."

Perhaps the worst, Dobson said, is SB1437, which would ban any instructional materials or public school activities that "reflect adversely" on homosexuals and other alternative sexual lifestyles.

"If these bills are signed into law, who knows what the liberal courts in California will be able to make out of this in the years to come? There goes the next generation of children," Dobson said.

And he noted that churches where pastors do preach about Romans 1 would no longer to eligible to get fire or police protection, because the proposals forbid any organization that receives government funding from portraying homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality in a negative light.

Americans must call or e-mail Schwarzenegger to let him know their concerns, Dobson said.

"If people don't hit him hard in the next two or three days we're going to see this legislation and perhaps the other three bills the law of the land," Dobson said.

Focus Action, begun in 2004, describes itself as a political action group dedicated to keeping the moral and cultural values that founded the U.S.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: California
KEYWORDS: caglbt; dobson; fotf; homonazis; homosexualagenda; schwarzenegger; thepinkswastika
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To: MineralMan

Getting your checks in the mail is the primary, no, the sole focus that Dobson has. He, like the Left Behind and apocalyptic gang, along with Pat Robertson do nothing that isn't aimed at the redistribution of wealth; yours to them. Frauds and charlatans all.


21 posted on 08/24/2006 12:54:41 PM PDT by middie
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To: BallyBill
I'd bet that 70-80% would say they are socially liberal in public. I doubt that many would vote that way behind closed doors.

BINGO! That's why the establishment is always surprised when socially conservative referenda passes. Peecee has made cowards of most of us.

22 posted on 08/24/2006 12:54:48 PM PDT by teawithmisswilliams (Question Diversity)
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To: MineralMan; Peach
That's about the silliest thing I've ever heard Dobson say

For the record, that wasn't a quote from Dobson.

23 posted on 08/24/2006 12:55:19 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: scripter

Well who said it then? Because the way it's written, it certainly sounds like it came from Dobson.

"If these bills are signed into law, who knows what the liberal courts in California will be able to make out of this in the years to come? There goes the next generation of children," Dobson said.


And he noted that churches where pastors do preach about Romans 1 would no longer to eligible to get fire or police protection, because the proposals forbid any organization that receives government funding from portraying homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality in a negative light.


24 posted on 08/24/2006 12:56:38 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: oldleft; Tim Long
The fact is, about 70-80% of people in California are socially liberal.

Total B.S. How do you explain that 62% of Californian voted for Proposition 22, which basically banned homosexual marriage? Have you ever been to California?

25 posted on 08/24/2006 12:57:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: Peach

We don't know who said it. The writer of the article didn't quote Dobson.


26 posted on 08/24/2006 12:57:48 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: scripter
Perhaps the worst, Dobson said, is SB1437, which would ban any instructional materials or public school activities that "reflect adversely" on homosexuals and other alternative sexual lifestyles.

Targeting Children, Part 1: How the gay movement intends to capture the next generation
Targeting Children, Part 2: How the homosexual movement uses public schools as instruments of change
Targeting Children, Part 3: Activists encouraging experimentation
Targeting Children, Part 4: Access to children: homosexuality and molestation

27 posted on 08/24/2006 12:58:55 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: scripter

So how do you know Dobson didn't say it?


28 posted on 08/24/2006 1:00:38 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach

When Dobson was quoted in the article his words were surrounded by quote marks. "Just like this." But there were no such quote marks on the text in question.


29 posted on 08/24/2006 1:03:25 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: scripter

The way to fight this public school indoctrination movement is to argue that people have a right in a free society to have differing beliefs on the morality of homosexual activity and that public schools should not force one point of view on everybody.


30 posted on 08/24/2006 1:03:25 PM PDT by Unam Sanctam
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To: oldleft; calcowgirl; SierraWasp; Amerigomag; Czar; NormsRevenge
Yes, we should keep putting up guys like Bill Simon and the guy that ran against Boxer last time. That's a sure way to make sure that the Mexican Socialists take over the state. The fact is, about 70-80% of people in California are socially liberal. You can nominate all the social conservatives you want, but they just can't win statewide office.

Where do you get that stupid statistic? 80% liberal???? When you make up data you are at risk of sounding like an idiot.

As for Bill Simon's loss, there is not one shred of evidence that he lost because of his conservative views. He lost because Gray Davis spent SIXTY MILLION dollars making a twisted argument that Bill is crooked.

Based on your reasoning liberal Republicans who get nominated should win in general elections or do better than conservatives. They don't. They lose far worse. Tom Campbell running for Senate got 32% in 2000! John Seymour was clobbered by Feinstein in 92, getting only 34%. In 1994 when Republicans were winning everywhere statewide, one of the few to lose was pro-abortion Michael Huffington.

Go spin your myths elsewhere. You have no facts to back up your dumb assertions.

31 posted on 08/24/2006 1:05:15 PM PDT by ElkGroveDan (California bashers will be called out)
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To: scripter

Well that could easily be an error in style because the article certainly reads like Dobson said that.


32 posted on 08/24/2006 1:06:12 PM PDT by Peach (The Clintons pardoned more terrorists than they ever captured or killed.)
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To: Peach

You are certainly free to believe that. Dobson was quoted elsewhere in the article but the text in question wasn't attributed to Dobson as a quote.


33 posted on 08/24/2006 1:07:48 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: Unam Sanctam

That's certainly one way to fight it. We've never had our kids in governments schools and never will.


34 posted on 08/24/2006 1:09:29 PM PDT by scripter ("You don't have a soul. You are a soul. You have a body." - C.S. Lewis)
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To: oldleft
The fact is, about 70-80% of people in California are socially liberal.

Balls.

35 posted on 08/24/2006 1:10:55 PM PDT by PRND21
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To: ElkGroveDan

http://www.ppic.org/content/pubs/jtf/JTF_VoterProfilesJTF.pdf


36 posted on 08/24/2006 1:18:17 PM PDT by tumblindice (Now if you'll excuse me, I'm going to go fist my sock-puppet)
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To: ElkGroveDan
Huffington barely lost to Feinstein and had beat super social conservative Dannemeyer, so you're kind of proving my point. I'll bet you can't name the last time a social conservative won office in a statewide election. I sure can't. Even Reagan ran the state from a fairly liberal view on social issues.
37 posted on 08/24/2006 1:18:19 PM PDT by oldleft
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To: middie

I don't agree with your assessment of the Left Behind authors. It's not their fault that they wrote a book that people purchased like gangbusters. Their publisher, Tyndale House, publishes the New Living Translation of the Bible. This publisher is very well respected within the Christian community and present a number of different Christian authors that have different eschatology. In addition to Jenkins and LaHaye they also publish Colson, Dobson, Joel Rosenberg, Gary Smalley, George Barna, Karen Kingsbury, Lisa Beamer.


38 posted on 08/24/2006 1:19:16 PM PDT by cdga5for4
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To: scripter

No? Here's what the article said:

""If these bills are signed into law, who knows what the liberal courts in California will be able to make out of this in the years to come? There goes the next generation of children," Dobson said.


And he noted that churches where pastors do preach about Romans 1 would no longer to eligible to get fire or police protection, because the proposals forbid any organization that receives government funding from portraying homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality in a negative light. "

Sounds like Dobson said it to me. That's what the article said. Bunch of crap!


39 posted on 08/24/2006 1:22:26 PM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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To: middie

"Getting your checks in the mail is the primary, no, the sole focus that Dobson has. He, like the Left Behind and apocalyptic gang, along with Pat Robertson do nothing that isn't aimed at the redistribution of wealth; yours to them. Frauds and charlatans all.

"

I sure wouldn't disagree with you, and Dobson will lie to do it, too. Sad, because there are legitimate people trying to cut down on the influence of gays in society. Dobson just capitalizes on this, and doesn't really give a darn, as long as those checks keep rolling in.

Fortunately, charlatans like Dobson do not represent the vast majority of Christians.


40 posted on 08/24/2006 1:24:49 PM PDT by MineralMan (Non-evangelical Atheist)
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