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 he’s 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). Today’s 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 he’s stabbing pro-family Californians in the back. People of faith are suffering under Arnold Schwarzenegger. He’s not the lesser of two evils, he’s 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 King’s 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.
CCF’S 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), children’s day care centers and after-school programs (many which receive state funding) could be forced to allow men to wear women’s 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 Education’s “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.
"you are talking about SB1437 is still in process and hasn't hit the Governor's desk yet"
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You are right. Thanks for the correction -- I wasn't paying attention. Time to get brain recharged by getting some sleep.
ROFL! You read it? Then how did you not notice that FO's post was 100% wrong? (see post 57).
She obviously never read it and is willing to make things up in defense of her action-hero.
When you see state monies spent to enforce a particular doctrine, such as "Sensitivity Training" (i.e. social anesthetisia), you can only presume that in due time, that doctrine will be furthered in scope.
Doubtless, those in favor of the "Anything but one man and one woman" lifestyle club are planning a two-stage attack; stage one is to starve faith-based organizations of capital, and stage two, pound them in court when they're broke. What you are seeing now is the setup for stage one. After many religious campuses are drained of students, then stage two starts, and you'll see the onslaught of lawsuits from transgendered transsexual transreligionists insisting they be made the head of every remaining religious school in the Land of Fruits and Nuts.
No. I've read analyses of it. Arnold signed it.
Have you read it? Arnold signed it.
My understanding is that there is still no exception for religious conscience. Arnold signed it. In that respect, Arnold has endorsed coercive State powers to be exerted over churches as places of "public accommodation." Arnold signed it. If such limitations aren't explicitly prohibited in the bill, those powers will soon be incorporated by the courts and everybody with half a brain knows it; IOW, it may be "watered down" now, but it won't be for long. Arnold signed it. The law is therefore worse than you portray.
Arnold signed it.
That is correct.
Go Ahnold!
Post #9
We were talking about the bill as written and I read it and was right about that.
I was wrong about this text being a revision of an earlier version.
There are too many of these types of bills -- notice they are all being passed by the DEM Legislature.
This is outrageous...
Since when do churches receive state funding?
This bill only applies to state agencies and those who receive state funding.
And why aren't you upset with the Dem Legislature, that keeps passing these bills?!
see post 57 and the retraction in post 61
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Do you have a link to the bill that you are referring to?
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
They are places of public accommodation. They receive state services. You watch.
And why aren't you upset with the Dem Legislature, that keeps passing these bills?!
Your nose is going to be in need of strucutral engineering, given its rate of growth.
Of course there is an agenda. Satan's agenda, Allah's agenda. It is "all part of the big plan"
Do you have a link to that? The bill I read says nothing close to what is in your post. The actual bill.
Do you want socialized medicine in CA? Do you have any idea of the implications?
Arnold will veto that bill, while Angelides will sign it.
So whom should any sensible person vote for?
Can you please link me to the actual bill that you are referring to?
Stupid thing to do for sure.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
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