Tom McClintock: The Perils of Perfection... (SB 777 - Fight back!)

Citizens for the California Republic ^ | 10-15-2007 | Tom McClintock

[Seadog Bytes]

RE: “Here’s a suggestion for the groups that opposed this new law: use it. After all, if courts begin ruling that exclusion is indeed a form of discriminatory bias – which is clearly the intent of this bill – there are no groups more excluded or less tolerated in the public schools today than evangelical Christians, orthodox Jews and traditional Catholics.” - Tom McClintock

Thanks!

[gondramB]

>>There’s a great commotion among family and religious groups over the governor’s signing of SB 777 by Senator Sheila Kuehl. It is titled the “California Student Civil Rights Act” and purports to guard children from instruction or activities that “promote a discriminatory bias” on the basis of a long list of criteria including religion, gender, sexual orientation, nationality or ethnicity.<<

If we are gonna keep discussing this bill we have got to get better sources.

Like the article that said it banned the words mom and dad - but that isn’;t in the bill..

Now, I did a search and the word bias isn’t in the bill either.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0751-0800/sb_777_bill_20070223_introduced.pdf

[Mr. Jeeves]

This nation is so screwed up. If it were a human I’d call it senile.

Too many lawyers - not enough work. ;)

[DoughtyOne]

You’ve got that right.

[LexBaird]

Now, I did a search and the word bias isn’t in the bill either.

Look again, in the chaptered bill, not the introduced one. Here's just one instance:

"SEC. 29. Section 51500 of the Education Code is amended to read: 51500. No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias because of a characteristic listed in Section 220."

[calcowgirl]

The word “bias” is used four times in the new law, as chaptered.

http://www.leginfo.ca.gov/pub/07-08/bill/sen/sb_0751-0800/sb_777_bill_20071012_chaptered.html

[calcowgirl]

You beat me to it! LOL.

[gondramB]

Thank you both. I’m reading the new version.

[SunkenCiv]

Heh... yeah.

[SunkenCiv]

If a high school elects a prom king and queen, this obviously doesn’t "reflect adversely" on homosexual students. But does it "promote a discriminatory bias" to celebrate a heterosexual stereotype at a school dance without also celebrating a gay couple, a lesbian couple and a transgender couple as well? It's entirely conceivable that a court will say that exclusion is certainly discriminatory.

Particularly in CaliPornia. Thanks SB.

[bajabaja]

Just include “political ideology” as a “protected” category, and then have fun. Nobody is more discriminated against in public schools (at all levels) than conservatives. Give the schools a real dose of this, I think Tom McClintock is spot on. It’s their own medicine. See how they like it.

[abigailsmybaby]

And gun owners.

[eyeamok]

All that needs to be done is amend the law to include ALL SCHOOLS public and private, or make it a Felony for all Public Servants to enroll their children in anything but the Public Schools, After all They Support our schools dont they?? Maybe we should pass a referendum mandating that ALL PUBLIC EMPLOYEES USE PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION to and From work, and free up all that parking space for Private Citizens who need to be there.

[abigailsmybaby]

or make it a Felony for parents to enroll their children in anything but the Public Schools

I'm waiting for this to happen. They hate homeschoolers.

[ValerieTexas]

Don’t forget the buck-toothed couples, and incestuous couples, and pimply couples and little people and hairy people and the zombies.

[SunkenCiv]

And of course, couples where one of them is a farm animal. See, now, I wouldn’t care to have a long-term intimate relationship with a farm animal, because I think they’d be pretty messy around the house.

[scripter]

Homosexual Agenda Ping

McClintock on California's SB 777.

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[ValerieTexas]

I can be pretty messy, too, but you wouldn’t let that stop you, would you?

[SunkenCiv]

I’d cut ya some slack. Uh-oh, I’m bewitched by that Celtic vibe.

[ValerieTexas]

There’s that slippery slope again — ain’t it fun?!