And the Republicans were silent

California Catholic ^ | August 16, 2007

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The California legislature is expected to approve this month a bill redefining “gender and “discrimination” in a way that poses a moral threat to California’s schoolchildren. According to Catholics for the Common Good (ccgaction.org), the bill, SB 777, would “promote discrimination against the Judeo-Christian understanding of human sexuality.”


Termed the "Student Civil Rights Act," the bill’s intent, says the its author, Sheila Kuehl, is to protect California students from "bullying and harassment" and to "ensure a safe learning environment."

The legislation’s main impact, however, would be to prohibit any "instruction, school activities, or instructional material" that "reflects or promotes a discriminatory bias against" homosexual, transgender, or bisexual persons.

“Prohibiting bias” might sound innocuous, explains Catholics for the Common Good, until you understand what homosexual interest groups perceive as “discrimination” and “bias.” By these terms they refer to any recognition of the natural complementarity of male and female, the historic universality of marriage between male and female; normal human sexuality, traditional sexual ethics, and the natural family.

“For seven years, lesbian state senator Sheila Kuehl has been trying to pass a homosexual curriculum teaching affirmatively about gay, lesbian, and transgender issues from K-12,” Randy Thomasson of Campaign for Children and Families, told California Catholic Daily.

“This bill requires textbooks, instructional materials, and school-sponsored activities to positively portray cross-dressing, sex-change operations, homosexual ‘marriages,’ and all aspects of homosexuality and bisexuality.”

Moreover, said Thomasson, “silence on these sexual lifestyles will simply not be permitted. Schools or school boards who fail to cooperate with the program would be sued by the attorneys at the California Department of Education.”

“Lawsuit is the enforcement mechanism,” says Peter LaBarbera (AmericansForTruth.com), “and most people don’t realize what that means: the text will not define the law. The lawyers and courts will define the law.”

According to Catholics for the Common Good, law professor Francisco Valdes argued in the California Law Review that “Christianity itself is the cause of the oppression of gays, lesbians, transgender persons, and women.”

One international law expert cited by CCGaction.org, speaking in favor of a resolution strikingly similar to SB 777, explained, "Any time a teacher says that heterosexuality is in any way desirable, that is an act of homophobia. To teach in favor of the family is to abuse those who have traditionally not been able to participate in it."

These samples of the looming liberal legal consensus are pertinent precisely because the language of SB 777 is so vague. This ambiguity guarantees that school boards and teachers will proactively present all “sexualities” in order to avoid expensive lawsuits.

What’s worse, according to Thomasson, is that while Republicans in the legislature have generally voted against SB 777, not one of them has, to date, spoken out publicly against it. Thomasson warns that if it passes the Democratic-dominated legislature, as expected, without debate and on a swift party-line vote, only Governor Schwartzenegger’s veto will be able to stop the sexual restructuring of classroom instruction for California’s 6 million schoolchildren

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[johnny7]

[PGalt]

Thanks for posting. BTTT.

[cripplecreek]

The GOP should adopt the image of a stray cowering dog as their symbol.

[az wildkitten]

What will happen when the views of the Islamist lobby and the Secular Progressives collide? Secondarily, I guess this is Sheila’s revenge on Dobie Gilles and the rest of us for shunning her.

[Antoninus]

The GOP should adopt the image of a stray cowering dog as their symbol.

Or just a puddle of wizz if you ask me. They are truly pathetic.

[GatorGirl]

I would think Catholic school, private school and homeschool will be the order of the day in California after this!

[ducdriver]

Can this possibly be Constitutional?

Has the Church in California become a “patriotic church”? Does CCG represent the “underground church”? Mahony should be front and center here if he’s not leading the patriotic church. His successor will have one helluva mess.

[robertpaulsen]

"The GOP should adopt the image of a stray cowering dog as their symbol."

What we want:

What we get:

[MNJohnnie]

LOVE the way the Catholic Establishment spits on it’s allies, the GOP, rather then EVER discovering the courage to attack the REAL enemy, the Democrat Party Leadership who push this crap.

[rbosque]

Sick.

[biscuit jane]

I knew this was gonna happen. This is yet another reason why the public schools should be eliminated.

Mahony is undoubtedly supporting this. He probably wrote the text.

[biscuit jane]

Nice photo...

woof woof !

[YouGoTexasGirl]

From what I’ve heard...and I may be wrong...They are also making a mess of San Francisco. The city is again becoming a sidewalk drug and homeless show. We were there last month and the smell of urine is everywhere, even saw a guy in front of a church who was trying to pull his pants up while falling into the steps rail! Absolutely gross. From what I heard, the Catholic church got expanded funded to feed them last year and this just made the problem worse. We also had to leave the sidewalk once into the street as a homeless man was waking from his drugged out night and trying to get up on his feet. He’d try and fall down again.

Now, let’s compare SF to a larger city that we just got back from- Tokyo. We did not see ONE homeless person and we were on the streets around 5:30 am until 10 pm a couple of nights. It was just wonderful! Proves that if you do not promote that behavior, it won’t be a nuisance.

[VxH]

“promote discrimination against the Judeo-Christian understanding of human sexuality.”

What about the Biological / Historical / Evolutionary understanding of human sexuality?

Show us a mammal that reproduces homosexually.

Got Natural Law?

[massgopguy]

Urine, the smell of a tolerant, sanctuary city.

[massgopguy]

Homosexual sex isn’t about reproduction, it’s about orgasm. That and interior designing. That’s what separates them from the oysters.

[hophead]

Hell, the Catholic church ALSO wants open borders. They have lost it as far as I am concerned. Then you have that bishop who wants us to call God Allah and the Pope has not been calling for his excommunication.

[Pyro7480]

Then you have that bishop who wants us to call God Allah and the Pope has not been calling for his excommunication.

Why waste the energy when he's going to be forced to retire when he turns 75, and that's not too far in the future.