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.
I just pasted it from the article above - second paragraph. Hope the actual bill IS different from what that paragraph claims... :o)
To me, and I'm from Illinois so what do I know, it seems the bill just adds the words "sexual orientation" to the discrimination laws.
What I think most are upset about is the Judiciary Analysis of what the new wording implies considering how California has defined those certain terms in other areas of code. I posted the Judges Analysis in post 39.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
I want to read the actual legislation before making an opinion. You pasted from propaganda. What bill are you referring to?
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
Why are you after me? I live in Connecticut and have no real opinion formed about this bill yet. I merely pinged a few California FRiends to this thread for discussion. I'm sure you can find the actual bill yourself...
~good night~
There are links to all of the pro-GLBT legislation making its way to the Governor's desk in this post:
Homosexual Agenda - California Legislation In ProcessBased on his performance today, my guess is the Governor will sign most of them.
Various - Leginfo.ca.gov ^ | June 2006
Posted on 06/30/2006 7:49:06 PM PDT by calcowgirl
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Thank you for the clarification. Who is Kevin G. Baker anyway?
INTREP
You're not getting it. They don't get state funding; they do get state services... Like fire protection.
Got it?
I hope your synagogue has sprinklers.
Read the bill, it's not what some people claim it is. The link is posted in the first few posts.
And you should familiarize yourself with socialist medicine.
National Healthcare = Stethoscope Socialism
http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=16494
And in case you missed the CA thread on it:
California Assembly passes bill to provide universal health care
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1691665/posts
The F.O.'s and staytrues will pillory you for saying such things, saying that YOU are responsible for further liberal takeover if you don't fight them with a mushy middle vote that only serves the other side. That's garbage -- the mushies are the ones that do things like sign bills like this, and say, "Where else you gonna go? It's my way, or no way!" If they lose because principled people choose not to go their way, THEY MADE THE CHOICE.
I hear the same thing about Congressional and Senate races, too. Bush is dedicated to the WOT, but he's decided that you want to support it, you gotta open wide and swallow Vicente Fox's agenda and adopt a virtually non-existent border protection policy. AGAIN, HE AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW HIM HAVE MADE THE CHOICE. THEY want to risk the nation's security so nobody can falsely accuse them of disliking Hispanics.
I'm sure that someone is by now suggesting that R-nold opponents are like the Nedheads in Connecticut. Baloney -- the nutroots are attempting to bounce a liberal from office based on a single conservative stand. Nowadays, Shrivernegger only acts like a conservative when he's at the state GOP confab. Standing up and saying "No matter how evil I am, I am the lesser of the two" is NOT the way to rally the base.
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
He did the same thing last year, the media just wasn't watching.
They focused entirely on his veto of gay marriage and completely ignored the slew of Pro-GLBT legislation signed into law on the same day.
See list of bills signed on Sept 29, 2005 HERE.
Huh? I think you meant to post to someone else. I live 3,000+ miles from you and the "Action Hero". I was merely pinging a few California FRiends to this thread for discussion. Geesh...
(No more Olmert! No more Kadima! No more Oslo! )
You were right about what?
You totally mischaracterized it and have proven you know not what you are posting about.
You still haven't addressed the simple fact:
Arnold signed the bill
So you just keep changing the subject.
Arnold signed it. It looks to me like you are covering for it because you wanted it.
Y'all shoulda voted for McClintock.
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