Posted on 08/28/2006 9:27:06 PM PDT by Heartofsong83
Schwarzenegger Squashes Religious Freedom
Thomasson: Arnold Schwarzenegger has two faces. He speaks at churches and says he believes in religious freedom and family values, yet hes stabbing pro-family Californians in the back.
Sacramento, California Campaign for Children and Families is shocked and dismayed that California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed SB 1441 (Kuehl). Todays disastrous action by Schwarzenegger means Christian and other faith-based colleges in California will be forced to promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality if they accept students with Cal Grants.
People of conscience are appalled that Arnold Schwarzenegger has trampled religious freedom to satisfy hyperactive sexual activists, said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families (CCF), a leading California-based pro-family organization. SB 1441 will force religious colleges to either abandon their Biblical standards on sexuality, or reject students with state financial aid. Schwarzenegger is doing what Gray Davis did trample religious freedom at the bidding of liberal activists from San Francisco and West Hollywood.
Arnold Schwarzenegger has two faces, said Thomasson. He speaks at churches and says he believes in religious freedom and family values, yet hes stabbing pro-family Californians in the back. People of faith are suffering under Arnold Schwarzenegger. Hes not the lesser of two evils, hes doing evil.
CCF had informed thousands of Californians about SB 1441, generating thousands of phone calls, faxes, and emails opposing this offensive bill. Last week, the Governor was faxed letters pleading for a veto by Christian colleges, including Westmont College (Santa Barbara), Shasta Bible College (Redding), The Kings College and Seminary (Van Nuys), Vanguard University (Costa Mesa), Life Pacific College (San Dimas), Trinity Law School (Santa Ana), William Jessup University (Rocklin), and Simpson University (Redding).
Supported only by Democrats in the California State Legislature, SB 1441 specifically requires any program or activity that receives any financial assistance from the state to support transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality or lose state funding. SB 1441 contains no exemption for religious colleges and universities that accept students with Cal Grants, or child-care providers that accept CalWORKS vouchers.
CCFS FLOOR ALERT OPPOSING SB 1441
Campaign for Children and Families opposes SB 1441 (Kuehl), which would trample the religious freedom of faith-based colleges and universities, infringing on their values for sexual standards and appropriate role models for the children and students in their care. SB 1441 could easily harm the religious freedom of dozens of religious colleges and universities in California that accept financial aid for students. There is NO EXCEPTION for Protestant, Catholic, Jewish or other religious institutions.
1. Trampling Religious Standards
SB 1441 requires any program or activity that receives any financial assistance from the state to support and promote gender identity (transsexuality) and sexual orientation (bisexuality and transsexuality). By importing these controversial sexual lifestyle definitions from the Penal Code, this intolerant bill tramples the religious values of faith-based institutions:
- Penal Code, Section 422.56(c) "Gender" means sex, and includes a person's gender identity and gender related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth.
- Penal Code, Section 422.56(h) "Sexual orientation" means heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality.
If signed into law, SB 1441 would mean religious colleges (which accept students with state financial aid), childrens day care centers and after-school programs (many which receive state funding) could be forced to allow men to wear womens dresses and hire transsexual, bisexual or homosexual instructors. SB 1441 would destroy these institutions standards for role models and their dearly-held values to provide for the best interest of children in their care.
2. Forced Upon Religious Universities, Private Child Care Centers
The Senate Judiciary Committee noted how the effect of SB 1441 was wide-ranging and deep, affecting both religious universities that accept students with state financial assistance (through Cal Grants), and private child care facilities (through CalWorks child care vouchers):
Because Gov. Code Sec. 11135 covers not only the state but also state agencies and any program or activity at the local level that receives funding from the state, the impact of this bill is both wide-ranging and deep.
It will also affect contractors with the state (such as nonprofits), where the services provided locally are funded directly by the state or where the contractor receives any financial assistance from the state.
Some of the programs that would be affected by this bill are: Medi-Cal, State Disability Insurance, CalWORKS, food stamp programs, Unemployment Insurance, Workers' Compensation, financial aid programs administered by the University of California or the California State University, child support services programs and services for veterans, legal services programs, home loan assistance programs, licensing of businesses, government contracting and procurement activities, and voter registration. -- Analysis of SB 1441, Senate Judiciary Committee
The Assembly floor analysis reports that all kinds of financial aid programs would be affected by SB 1441:
Some of the programs that would be affected by this bill are: Medi-Cal, the California Work Opportunity and Responsibility to Kids, food stamp programs, unemployment and disability unemployment insurance, workers' compensation, financial aid programs, child support services programs, services for veterans, legal services programs, home loan assistance programs, licensing of businesses, government contracting and procurement activities, and voter registration. -- Analysis of SB 1441, Assembly Floor
OTHER SEXUAL INDOCTRINATION BILLS HEADING TO SCHWARZENEGGER
SB 1437 prohibits textbooks, instructional materials, and school-sponsored activities from "reflecting adversely" on transsexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality, thus indirectly requiring positive portrayals of these sexual lifestyles in curriculum in all grades in all public schools. Consequently, schools would have to promote "same-sex marriages" and even sex-change procedures. SB 1437 is on the Senate floor.
AB 606 authorizes the California Superintendent of Public Instruction to arbitrarily withhold state funds from any district that does not adequately promote the State Department of Educations model policy promoting transsexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality in its school policies. Clears the way for transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual curriculum to be forced on all public schools. AB 606 is on the Senate floor.
AB 1056 would spend $250,000 in taxpayer dollars to promote transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual lifestyles under the banner of "tolerance education." Redefines "tolerance" to allow schools to force attitudinal support of transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality. AB 1056 is on the Senate floor.
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CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES (CCF) is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization representing children and families in California and America.
Cite where I said any such thing.
There isn't a person on this forum that has expended more resources to develop systems making government regulation unnecessary, not one, and I can prove it.
There is a reason promoting sexual debauchery and particularly homosexuality has been a stated objective of the Communist Party for over seventy years: it is destructive to liberty.
Received this email from "Team Arnold" today - go to link.
http://www.joinarnold.com/site/c.jkIVLdMTJrE/b.2039195/k.4664/829_News_of_Note.htm?auid=1918653&kntaw18775=05CB3B484736430995F8CD9148EFFD25
It will be a cold day in the Mojave Desert before I contribute to his political aspirations (and even then, I'll just put a sweater on, turn up the heat and pretend it's summer).
Public school is child abuse.
"will vote for Arnold ..."
So will I. Very, very unhappily.
But whatever our view on voting for Arnold, it is absolutely essential to vote, so that Tom McClintock is elected lieutenant governor, Poochigian attorney general, and Strickland controller. There are also the ballot measures.
You get what you vote for...
Baptist Ping
This is outrageous!
Coming to private K1-12 if it isn't stopped. This is why private schools should never accept vouchers. These colleges have probably gradually become dependent on the funding and are now considered "hooked" I hope they have the courage to stop all assistance, carry the students they have enrolled and not take another dime.
Nice non sequitur. Lemme try one.
You think every shade of gray that isn't dark enough to be black is white.
Pretty good, eh?
Thanks for playing, "Yella."
Religious schools compromised, instead of standing strong, and accepted "public funds" with the hope they would get the Gospel out with state aid.
The question I have is, "Will churches choose to serve God rather than man when the arguement stating that 'tax-free means receiving state aid' is successful?" How about when accepting offering from people who's only income is Welfare or Social Security is considered accepting state funds?
Will mega-churches go apostate or stand up and say, "ENOUGH!" Will Rick Warren come back to Saddleback to focus on spreading the Gospel instead of curing world famine?
Flee California. Freedom is dead there.
He's a Kennedy by marriage. What did we expect? Decency?
If you take Caesar's money, you take his orders. Private and religious schools can't have it both ways. If they stop taking the state's dirty money, they will buy their freedom back.
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