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Posted on 08/29/2006 3:31:08 PM PDT by redgolum
Posted: August 29, 2006 9:00 a.m. Eastern
© 2006 WorldNetDaily.com
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has tossed out all sexual moral conduct codes at colleges, private and Christian schools, daycare centers and other facilities throughout his state, if the institutions have any students who get state assistance.
The governor yesterday signed a bill that would require all businesses and groups receiving state funding -- even if it's a state grant for a student -- to condone homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality.
There is no exception for faith-based organizations or business owners with sincerely held religious convictions, critics note.
"The gates of hell are prevailing against the church," Randy Thomasson, president of the Campaign for Children and Families, told WorldNetDaily. "It's because Christian colleges and churches have ignored the political process for so long. Now the political process, absent religious values, is coming back to assault the church."
"This isn't even a veiled attempt at subtly advancing the radical homosexual agenda," said Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute. "SB1441 is an outright, blatant assault on religious freedom in California."
Her group's analysis of the legislation concluded it will prevent parochial schools such as private, Christian, Catholic, Mormon and other religious institutions from getting financial assistance for students if they maintain a code of conduct that does not endorse such behavior.
Whether that behavior is approved by their religious beliefs is, at this point, irrelevant, the analysis showed.
"As a citizen of California and a religious person, I am terribly disappointed in Gov. Schwarzenegger," said Meredith Turney, the legislative liaison for CRI. "It is bad public policy to add to the list of protected classes a sexual behavior.
"Equating sexual preference with the immutable characteristics of age, national origin or race will result in other variable behaviors being added to the list of invariable classes rightfully protected," she said.
Constitutional assurances of freedom of assembly and freedom of speech both are destroyed by the action, CRI said. And Thomasson believes it is "setting up a tremendous church-state conflict in the courts."
"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."
"This bill is yet another attempt to prevent citizens with moral and religious principles from expressing their beliefs and educating their children according to those beliefs," said England. "On behalf of California families, private schools and other private organizations, I express our outrage at this attack on our freedom."
"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," concluded Thomasson's organization.
He said the governor "has trampled religious freedom to satisfy hyperactive sexual activists."
"He's not the lesser of two evils, he's doing evil," Thomasson said.
CCF earlier had publicized the situation, and generated thousands of telephone calls, e-mails and faxes opposing the plan.
But it was supported by Democrats in the state legislature and specifically requires "any program or activity that receives any financial assistance from the state" to support the alternative sexual lifestyle choices.
CCF said the change also will affect any program or activity at the local level that gets any state funding from programs including Medi-Cal, State Disability Insurance, CalWORKS, food stamps, Unemployment Insurance, Workers' Compensation, child support services, veterans services, home loan assistance programs and others.
And as bad as the single bill is, the CCF said, several other "sexual indoctrination bills" are heading to the governor. One would prohibit textbooks or school-sponsored activities from "reflecting adversely" on a certain list of sexual choices.
Another would allow 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.
Still another would spend state money promoting transsexual, bisexual and homosexual lifestyles.
As WND reported, James Dobson, president of the action affiliate of Focus on the Family ministries, earlier broadcast an urgent call to the millions of radio program listeners to contact Schwarzenegger about the homosexual promotions.
Mona Passignano, the state issues analyst for Focus, told WND the combination of bills would reinforce homosexuality and a limited number of other sexual choices but also prevent people from reflecting on their religious beliefs that may address those choices.
"You cannot preach the Gospel. If you want to preach about Romans 1, you can't. Someone could say, 'That makes me feel bad,'" she said. "You cannot preach what the Bible says.
"If you're a Christian, it's got to be alarming. If you are not a Christian, it's got to be alarming," she said. "Because what comes next?
I found this. It's older than the blazes BUT:
Pertains to vouchers and chartersBut for all their promise, and despite the fact that they are theoretically accountable to a local district or to the state, a growing number of charters have become indistinguishable from private or even quasi-religious schools that offer Bible reading, give equal time to creationism, and, in some cases, are staffed by people who have only the most perfunctory training. In Fremont, California, an Islamic charter school, which gets full state funding, offers its 74 students a morning of academic training each day that's provided largely by parents under the supervision of a "facilitator"; in the afternoon, students attend the Annoor Islamic Institute in the same classrooms. In Michigan, according to The Wall Street Journal, National Heritage Academies, sponsored by entrepreneur J.C. Huizenga but tax funded as public charters, tilt so heavily toward evangelical Christianity that they are drawing scores of students away from private religious schools. Elsewhere county school districts have awarded charters, and the tax money that comes with them, to Internet distance-learning "schools," whose students, most of them home schoolers, can be hundreds of miles away, and where no one is quite sure where all the money goes. The charters have also provided a major opening for the Edison Project and other for-profit education companies, which now operate about 10 percent of the nation's charter schools.
Something else from the above paragraph. Someone complained that some charters are as religious as parochial schools.
I realize that parents might opt for charter schooling to get out of failing schools, BUT, a lot go to charter schools precisely to get away from the crap that Arnold is letting into our public schools.
Taxpayers should have the ability to get away from that type of crud.
RINO RAT
A reality check for those who have advocated school vouchers.
Thanks for the ping, Dave!
Yes, I do remember.
I agree, the party acted pleased at his getting elected but it reminds me of the old story about the girl that nurses the sick snake back to health & it bites her. When she asks him why his reply "You knew I was a snake when you took me home."
And to think I "Had" respect for Arnold... It is totally spineless to bow to to the liberal left and allow an immoral illness to take root in educating children.
I just Knew he wouldn't do this!
His Hero status has gone the way of Rock Hudson for me, and now I'll have to purge my Movie collection..again.
One more.
No surprises here, really. I continue to think that the GOP in general, and this GOP governor in particular, are poor advocates for political conservatism.
As for the legislation, we expected anything different from the California legislature? And private organizations operating in California expected to be able to accept state funds while advocating views that are contrary to those of the California legislature? He who pays the piper usually calls the tune.
Government funds always come with strings attached. Always. That the looney tunes California legislature would add strings that are repugnant to religious organizations shouldn't come as much of a surprise. The solution is an obvious one: don't take the money or refrain from operating in the cesspool that California has become.
I wish Christians would wake up to the widespread threat to our civil liberties from the sexual indoctrination in public schools. Homeschooling is not the only answer. Religious people have constitutional rights and liberals should not be allowed to impose their morality on the rest of us through the government, courts and the public school system.
He won't be re-elected if he keeps doing stupid things like this.
Right now it would be better to vote for Angelides and let the Democrats run wild than to have ARNULD bouncing off the walls.
Time to toss Gov. Arnold.
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