Posted on 05/04/2006 5:04:33 AM PDT by A. Pole
A bill requiring students to learn about the contributions homosexuals have made to society and that would remove sex-specific terms such as "mom" and "dad" from textbooks has passed another hurdle on the way to becoming the law of the land in California.
Having already been approved by the state's Senate Judiciary Committee, SB 1437, which would mandate grades 1-12 buy books "accurately" portraying "the sexual diversity of our society," got the nod yesterday of the Senate Education Committee.
The bill also requires students hear history lessons on "the contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America."
"This bill is the most extreme effort thus far to transform our public schools into institutions of indoctrination that disregard all notions of the traditional family unit," said Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute. "SB 1437 seeks to eliminate all 'stereotypes' of the traditional family so that young children are brainwashed into believing that families with moms and dads are irrelevant."
SB 1437 not only affects textbooks and instructional materials for kindergarten and grades 1-12, it also affects all school-sponsored activities.
"School-sponsored activities include everything from cheerleading and sports activities to the prom," said England. "Under SB 1437 school districts would likely be prohibited from having a 'prom king and queen' because that would show bias based on gender and sexual orientation."
England also says the bill would likely do away with dress codes and would force the accommodation of transsexuals on girl-specific or boy-specific sports teams.
England says the measure amounts to unneeded social experimentation.
"SB 1437 disregards the religious and moral convictions of parents and students and will result in reverse discrimination," she said.
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Sponsored by Democratic Sen. Sheila Kuehl – a lesbian actress best known for playing Zelda in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" in the 1960s – the legislation would add "gender" (actual or perceived) and "sexual orientation" to the law that prohibits California public schools from having textbooks, teaching materials, instruction or "school-sponsored activities" that reflect adversely upon people based on characteristics like race, creed and handicap.
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"We've been working since 1995 to try to improve the climate in schools for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender kids, as well as those kids who are just thought to be gay, because there is an enormous amount of harassment and discrimination at stake," Kuehl explained. "Teaching materials mostly contain negative or adverse views of us, and that's when they mention us at all."
"In textbooks, it's as if there's no gay people in California at all, so forget about it," she added.
This is "Brave New World"
Where mother and father are four letter words.
JUST BEFORE MOTHERS DAY THEY SEEK TO OUTLAW MOM!
WHAT WILL THEY STATE DO ABOUT MOTHERS' DAY?
Lestiglators are stuck with their heads inside the tail end of their digestive track.
If they were willing to break the law to come here, of what use are any laws that now exist or will be created by those who broke them in the first act of arrival?.........
"If this bill is actually passed, it's time for a mass exodus from CA. It's on the threshold of societal collapse."
Just my opinion, but it was time for that a long, long time ago.
More of the homosexual agenda. what happened to teaching math and english in grade school?
Many cultures/societies are ruled by their customs and not by the written laws. It makes them immune to the crazy experiments and to follow natural instincts.
Those societies are a primitive and vile cesspool of corrupt beauracracies. They bring regression and not advancement. California will spiral slowly like a condor into the carrion of third world fly covered despair and social collapse.......
The unit on AIDS will take a month, at least.
One unfortunate fallout from this lunacy is that the textbook publishers do not write a host of different books. This will impact many other states as well.
California is NOT Texas. The political climate of Texas reinforces the new arrivals foundation of conservative values. The political climate of Kalifornia erodes that same foundation. Steady and sure, like Big Muddy, the new arrivals' values in The Golden State will be worn down by the abrasive nature of liberalism..........
Where are we going and why am I in this handbasket?
Why not a coalition of red states comming together to say, PC text books will not be purchased.
Or even adopt a set of model principles which must be adheared for acceptable textbooks.
A coalition of 4 or 5states would out number any stupidity of Kaleefoneea.
Another reason to homeschool ping
Geesh, what the heck is wrong with having a mother and father?
"the contributions homosexuals have made to society"
Like - - - what?
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