Dobson: Tell Arnold to halt 'gay' agenda

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.

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.

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.

You mean the 6100 We are family pro homosexual video's
distributed to scool children starring Sponge Bob?

Dr. Dobson Takes on Media over 'SpongeBob' Controversy
by Gary Schneeberger, editor

Focus on the Family founder did not criticize a cartoon character, as has been widely reported, but was warning parents that the group behind a "diversity" video may put material in teachers' hands that could prompt them to teach kids that homosexuality is equivalent to heterosexuality.

Dr. James Dobson set the record straight today about the onslaught of media reports mocking him for comments he is alleged to have made about the cartoon character SpongeBob SquarePants.

"I've been in the public eye for thirty-something years and I have never had my words more misrepresented than they were in this instance," Dobson said on today's installment of his internationally syndicated radio program. "I was said to be on the warpath for my dislike for SpongeBob — who supposedly has homosexual characteristics.

"I said no such thing."

What Dobson did say, in a speech last week in Washington during an event sponsored by the Family Research Council, was that SpongeBob is one of 100 popular animated characters that may have been co-opted by an innocuous-sounding group to promote acceptance of homosexuality to children. The group, the We Are Family Foundation, has produced a video slated for distribution to 61,000 public and private elementary schools; it features SpongeBob, Big Bird, Barney and others singing the old disco hit "We Are Family" and spreading a message of "diversity and unity."

And therein lies the rub — albeit well-concealed.

While words like "diversity" and "unity" sound harmless — even noble — enough, the reality is they are often used by gay activists as cover for teaching children that homosexuality is the moral and biological equivalent to heterosexuality. And there is ample evidence that the We Are Family Foundation shares — and promotes — that view.

"Unfortunately," Dobson explained, "the We Are Family foundation has very strong homosexual advocacy roots and biases."

For example, a tolerance pledge, which the foundation says it is "pleased to provide" on its Web site, reads in part: "I pledge to have respect for people whose abilities, beliefs, culture, race, sexual identity or other characteristics are different from my own."

And it's not the only piece of pro-homosexual content that has been posted on the group's Web site — some of it removed in recent days.

The curriculum booklet that will accompany the "We Are Family" DVD when it is sent to schools in March, for instance, is likely to contain resources for educators seeking to normalize homosexuality. Although that guide has not yet been made public, a 2003 manual, also associated with the "We Are Family" cartoon-character video, offered several exercises for educators that equate homosexuality with immutable characteristics, such as race or gender, and suggest it deserves limitless tolerance and acceptance.

Another previous curriculum posted on the We Are Family Foundation Web site, called "Writing for Change," includes exercises such as:

• Generating a Description - encourages students to discuss the definition of "lesbian."

• Talking About Being "Out" - offers worksheet questions and a discussion of "perceptions of sexual orientation."

• Uncovering Attitudes About Sexual Orientation - explores the impact of "homophobia" and "heterosexism."

• Developing definitions - presents a list of stereotypical definitions, including "compulsory heterosexuality." That is described "the assumption that women are naturally or innately drawn sexually and emotionally toward men, and men toward women; the view that heterosexuality is the "norm" for all sexual relationships."

"The institutionalization of heterosexuality in all aspects of society includes the idealization of heterosexual orientation, romance, and marriage," the guide states. "Compulsory heterosexuality leads to the notion of women as inherently 'weak,' and the institutionalized inequality of power: power of men to control women's sexuality, labor, childbirth and childrearing, physical movement, safety, creativity, and access to knowledge. It can also include legal and social discrimination against homosexuals and the invisibility or intolerance of lesbian and gay existence."

Tom Minnery, vice president of government and public policy at Focus on the Family, said reporters who have mocked Dobson for his comments have deliberately ignored these details in their quest to marginalize a pro-family leader.

"The media is trying to use this SpongeBob nonsense as a smokescreen, because they're not willing to tell the people what's really at stake," he explained. "What's at stake is the forced normalization of homosexuality in the public schools."

Dr. Bill Maier, Focus' psychologist in residence and a guest on today's broadcast, said he didn't think the media's efforts to undermine Dr. Dobson's integrity as a national spokesman for moral values would succeed.

"Clear-thinking Americans won't buy it," Maier said. "They've trusted Dr. Dobson for 27 years and will see through the media's SpongeBob charade."

Huffington barely lost to Feinstein and had beat super social conservative Dannemeyer, so you're kind of proving my point.

Huffington lost when everyone else won by about 5-10 points. As for the Dannemeyer case it doesn't prove your point. Your point was that we lose general elections due to conservative nominees, Dannemeyer lost in a primary because he was outspend 50:1.

I'll bet you can't name the last time a social conservative won office in a statewide election. I sure can't.

Then you should probably refrain from tossing out broad analysis and commentary. Again, some people might think you're an idiot, and we wouldn't want that.

The last conservative candidate that did well was Tom McClintock in his race for Controller in 2002. Sure he didn't win, but he came the closest losing by barely 10,000 votes. Tom was easily the MOST conservative candidate on the slate, so how does that fit in with your "theory?"

Prior to that, conservative Secretary of State Bill Jones won in 1998. In 1994 Matt Fong (Treasurer), Bill Jones (SOS) and Dan Lungren (Attorney General). That year we also elected not just a Republican Majority in the Assembly, but a conservative republican Majority and a conservative Republican Speaker.

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