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Students Vote Gay Couple Homecoming Princes
Monterey Herald ^ | 10/26/2007 | Kim Minugh

Posted on 10/28/2007 3:35:36 PM PDT by mngran2

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To: ohioman

I grew up in a military family and moved around in the South and Midwest and have also lived out West and in Alaska and I have NEVER seen a male cheerlesder in high school.

President Bush was a cheerleader!!!!


121 posted on 10/29/2007 10:26:23 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: mngran2
LGBTQ

Okay, I know what the difference between L and G but how are they different from Q? (I'm not invited to their meetings.)

122 posted on 10/29/2007 10:27:52 AM PDT by ItsForTheChildren
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To: mngran2; All

Unimaginable in my day....and also today. This is San Francisco, my friend. Have you seen this? I still can’t believe this is allowed to happen. Note the police standing by...

Graphic pics of the September, 2007, Folsom St. Fair in San Francisco....open to the public on public streets! If the pics don’t open, give them time...they will:

http://www.zombietime.com/folsom_sf_2007_part_1/index.php

Just to prove this is real:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1907473/posts


123 posted on 10/29/2007 10:36:38 AM PDT by toldyou
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To: mngran2

Maybe California could use the Spanish Inquisition for just a few weeks. Just to clean up some of the immediate .... problems.


124 posted on 10/29/2007 10:38:04 AM PDT by ZULU (Non nobis, non nobis Domine, sed nomini tuo da gloriam. God, guts and guns made America great.)
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To: mngran2
"Is a liberal town," interrupts his boyfriend of four months, Raphael. "Go 10 miles in any other direction and you'll get some other feeling."

Tar and feathers.

125 posted on 10/29/2007 10:40:41 AM PDT by humblegunner (My KungFu is ten times power.©)
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To: napscoordinator

Go to a parade in San Fran and see what goes down for yourself. I was being a bit sarcartic, but you would be amazed and disgusted to see what passes as normal there in the freak city by the sea. Homo sex in filthy public restrooms is a huge part of the lifestyle. Ask the governor from NJ that confessed to doing just such acts.


126 posted on 10/29/2007 10:45:34 AM PDT by Neoliberalnot
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To: ohioman
I grew up in a military family and moved around in the South and Midwest and have also lived out West and in Alaska and I have NEVER seen a male cheerlesder in high school.

I guess you see learn new every day, then. This high school cheerleader is now our president:


127 posted on 10/29/2007 10:50:45 AM PDT by mngran2
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To: napscoordinator

SB 777 represents the final and total repudiation of 2000 years of Christian moral teaching regarding sexuality, marriage, and the family through CA’s government schools. No Christian with any means at all can leave a child behind in the CA schools now without being morally complicit in the psychological molestation of children. Moreover, no church is worthy of the name if it doesn’t help those without the means to get theri children out of the CA schools.

The note below is taken fromn my email and was written to help someone in the media understand the new pro-sexual deviant California school legislation that Schwartzenegger just signed. You may find it of some interest. The names have been redacted.

Dear XXXX, XXX suggested that I send you some information on SB 777.

As you probably know, State Senator Sheila Kuehl (formerly “Zelda” of The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis) is the main sponsor of the bill and has been pushing this bill for 3 years or so. You probably also know that she is a radical lesbian.

In general, the general public has no real awareness of the legislation because there has been a lack of reporting by the MSM. Internet sources such as WND have published what seem to be exaggerated accounts of the consequences of SB 777 (after all, who would believe that our legislators and Governor would sign on to what WND describes). I have seen homosexual activists and liberals claiming that the “rightwing” furor is just much ado about nothing: the words “mom” and “dad” appear nowhere in the bill, and it is clear that the purpose of SB 777 is just to make California schools safe for “gay and bisexual” children.

The problem is that once one thinks carefully about SB 777 soporific legislative prose, it is obvious that SB 777 is indeed quite radical.

While SB 777 and related enactments really require extensive analysis in order to understand their full ramifications, there are a few sections that can give you a feel for just how how far SB 777 goes.

Let’s start with two operative provisions, Section 220 and Section 51500. First, Section 220 reads as follows:

220. No person shall be subjected to discrimination on the basis
of disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion,
sexual orientation, or any other characteristic that is contained in
the definition of hate crimes set forth in Section 422.55 of the
Penal Code in any program or activity conducted by an educational
institution that receives, or benefits from, state financial
assistance or enrolls pupils who receive state student financial aid.

Here is Section 51500:

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.

While it is clear that these provisions both prohibit discrimination based on a laundry list of factors, the definition of “gender” is important for understanding the significance of what Schwartzenegger signed.

210.7. “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.

Despite beginning with the common understanding of “gender”, the definition actually enshrines in law the most extreme post-modern view of “gender”. Here are three currently discussed models of sex and gender.

“1. The idea that both sex and gender are biological givens - you are born either male or female, and your gender is the same as your biological sex;
2. The idea that sex is a biological given, but gender is socially constructed - so it is natural to divide humans into male and female, but how your gender role is played out depends on upbringing, culture and social environment.
3. Both sex and gender are socially constructed - the importance accorded to the category of sex (and some of its physical aspects) are socially constructed, and gender is a performance (Judith Butler and Queer Theory). “

SB 777 treats “gender” as if it is entirely socially constructed. Thus, if you have adopted a gender identity as a woman the fact that your birth sex is male cannot be used in any way to “discriminate” against you. Thus, the statute on its face removes administrators’ authority to enforce sex segregation in school facilities or any program. I could elaborate on this, but I am sure you can see that there are virtually endless scenarios that can be developed around this theme.

Leaving aside the issues of who gets to go into whose lockerroom, for example, this legislation mandates the teaching of a worldview beginning in kindergarten regarding sexuality, marriage, and the family that treats a broad range of sexual perversions as morally equivalent to heterosexuality. In addition, children will be taught that homosexual, transexual, and transgendered “marriage” are morally equivalent to heterosexual marriage, and homosexual, and other deviant pairings calling themselves a “family” will be taught as morally equivalent to real families. Moreover, children will be taught that people who object to these teachings are intolerant, bigotted, moral lepers who should be shunned and silenced by law.

If you want a moment of dark comedy, consider what will happen once the kids figure SB 777 out. It is hard to see how the result could be anything but chaos.

A second key definition is “sexual orientation”:

SEC. 9. Section 212.6 is added to the Education Code, to read:
212.6. “Sexual orientation” means heterosexuality, homosexuality,
or bisexuality.

When Sections 212.6 and 210.7 are understood in the context of 220 and 51500, it is absolutely clear that activists for various kinds of “sexual minorities” will be able to make all kinds of claims about discrimination and promotion of discriminatory bias (bear in mind that “gays” and “lesbians” are now just a subset of the total class of perverts protected, mainly because of Section 210.7).

I know you are aware of how the kind of “anti-discrimination” language in Section 220 lends itself to extravagant legal theories that courts are quite willing to entertain (especially in California). But the operative phrase in Section 51500 - “promotes a discriminatory bias” - merits scrutiny, too.

In an earlier version of SB 777 the phrase was “reflects adversely”. For some reason this was changed prior to signing. In any event, Section 51500 takes SB 777 beyond banning so-called “discrimination” and outlaws “any activity” that someone might construe as promoting a discriminatory bias, even if it is not itself discriminatory. The possibilities here are endless - Bible clubs, any activity, text, or teaching that portrays traditional families in a positive light, etc. could easily be argued to be either discriminatory because they “privilege heteronormativity” or tend to foster a discriminatory bias against any group included in the definitions of “sexual orientation” or “gender”.

But, as they say in the late night Ginsu Knife commercials, there’s more. The protected classes extend far beyond those just discussed. The protected classes include people “perceived” to have the listed characteristics or who associate with someone who has, or is perceived to have, those characteristics:

SEC. 10. Section 219 is added to the Education Code, to read:
219. Disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity,
religion, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic contained
in the definition of hate crimes set forth in Section 422.55 of the
Penal Code includes a perception that the person has any of those
characteristics or that the person is associated with a person who
has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.

The potential for litigation is absolutely endless, and I am sure that the homosexuals and other “sexual minorities” will use litigation and, especially, the threat of litigation to get whatever they want.

Now, here are a few more provisions that may be of some interest.

“Educational institution” is defined in Section 210.3 as follows:

210.3. “Educational institution” means a public or private
preschool, elementary, or secondary school or institution; the
governing board of a school district; or any combination of school
districts or counties recognized as the administrative agency for
public elementary or secondary schools. [emphasis added]

Section 235 explicitly includes alternative and charter schools within the nondiscrimination requirements of the bill:

235. There shall be no discrimination on the basis of the
characteristics listed in Section 220 in any aspect of the operation
of alternative schools or charter schools.

Section 221 provides an exception for some religious schools:

221. This article shall not apply to an educational institution
that is controlled by a religious organization if the application
would not be consistent with the religious tenets of that
organization.

Interestingly:

SEC. 8. Section 212.3 is added to the Education Code, to read:
212.3. “Religion” includes all aspects of religious belief,
observance, and practice and includes agnosticism and atheism.

Some harassing litigation is likely to result regarding what is and is not consistent with the tenets of a religious organization. There is, for example, always some liberal group that claims that it has the true interpretation of some creed or other. Thus, Section 221 opens the door to litigation against various religious organizations regarding what their “tenets” are. Even if such lawsuits would lose on the merits, as long as they can be filed they can be used to intimidate Christian and other organizations into complying with the demands of the “sexual minorities” because the well funded homosexual groups can use litigation costs to threaten to bankrupt those organizations. The potential for mischief here is very significant.

I should also mention that “training” regarding Section 220 is mandated now for teacher certification. For example:

SEC. 24.5. Section 44253.3 of the Education Code is amended to
read:
44253.3. (a) The commission shall issue a certificate that
authorizes the holder to provide all of the following services to
limited-English-proficient pupils:...

(c) Completion of coursework in human relations in accordance with
the commission’s standards of program quality and effectiveness that
includes, at a minimum, instruction in the following:
(1) The nature and content of culture.
(2) Crosscultural contact and interactions.
(3) Cultural diversity in the United States and California.
(4) Providing instruction responsive to the diversity of the pupil
population.
(5) Recognizing and responding to behavior related to bias based
on the characteristics listed in Section 220.

[In addition, there is a companion bill to SB 777, AB 394, that covers in detail all that will be done to “re-educate” teachers, administrators and other schools employees about how to behave, teach, and punish children in the new homosexualized schools. I won’t cover AB 394 here because it would significantly lengthen this memo.]

SB 777 also expressly applies to postsecondary education:

66270. No person shall be subjected to discrimination on the
basis of disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity,
religion, sexual orientation, or any characteristic listed or defined
in Section 11135 of the Government Code or any other characteristic
that is contained in the prohibition of hate crimes set forth in
subdivision (a) of Section 422.6 of the Penal Code in any program or
activity conducted by any postsecondary educational institution that
receives, or benefits from, state financial assistance or enrolls
students who receive state student financial aid.
SEC. 45. Section 66270.5 of the Education Code is amended and
renumbered to read:

Finally, Section 51004 makes clear that Section 220 is intended to apply to job fairs. What this provision actually does isn’t clear, but I suspect employers may not like it.

SEC. 28. Section 51004 of the Education Code is amended to read:
51004. The Legislature hereby recognizes that it is the policy of
the people of the State of California to provide an educational
opportunity to the end that every pupil leaving school shall have the
opportunity to be prepared to enter the world of work; that every
pupil who graduates from any state-supported educational institution
should have sufficient marketable skills for legitimate remunerative
employment; that every qualified and eligible adult citizen shall be
afforded an educational opportunity to become suitably employed in
some remunerative field of employment; and that these opportunities
are a right to be enjoyed without regard to economic status or the
characteristics listed in Section 220.

The Legislature further recognizes that all pupils need to be
provided with opportunities to explore and make career choices and to
seek appropriate instruction and training to support those choices.
The Legislature therefore finds that fairs as community resource and
youth leadership activities are integral to assisting and guiding
pupils in making choices and therefore encourage the further
expansion of cooperative activities between schools, youth leadership
activities, and community resources. Among community resources of
particular significance in providing information on various career
opportunities are vocational and occupational exhibits,
demonstrations and activities conducted at fairs.

Although this is just a cursory look at just some of the provisions of SB 777, it should be plain that SB 777 represents a complete victory for sexual deviants. Did WND exaggerate? Probably not, but without education most people will not understand the changes that SB 777 will engender through new regulations, new school policies, and litigation over the next few years.

Bottom line - if this doesn’t motivate parents who have any way at all out of the California schools to leave, they really don’t care much for their children. The same could be said for our churches who fail to assist the parents who genuinely need help getting their children out.

The link below is to the enrolled text of SB 777. God’ s peace be with you, XXXX

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


128 posted on 10/29/2007 10:52:16 AM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: mountainbunny
There is indeed plenty wrong with the public schools, and the promotion of homosexuality is one of them. It doesn't mean you hate your homosexual neighbors if you object to two boys being voted in as homecoming "princes", unless we've reached the point where opposition to any demand by homosexuals is considered to be "hate". And sadly, we may have just about reached that point.
129 posted on 10/29/2007 10:53:38 AM PDT by puroresu (Enjoy ASIAN CINEMA? See my Freeper page for recommendations (updated!).)
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To: Neoliberalnot
I have never been to San Francisco so I would not know. Everyone I know who have gone including many conservatives love the city. I always look at them with skepticism because I have the view that San Francisco just has gays running all over the place, but they say it is only in one area of the city. Either way, I doubt I will ever visit the city anyway.
130 posted on 10/29/2007 10:56:32 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: ohioman

Some former cheerleaders...

George W. Bush, Dwight D Eisenhower, Samuel L. Jackson, Kirk Douglas, Michael Douglas, Jimmy Stewart, Steve Martin, Franklin D. Roosevelt

http://academic.scranton.edu/STUDENT/POLICASTROJ2/Famous.htm


131 posted on 10/29/2007 10:58:07 AM PDT by toldyou
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To: trumandogz

At my highschool it was thought the elections were rigged.


132 posted on 10/29/2007 11:00:16 AM PDT by LukeL
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To: mngran2

Really, this is too too much! What about discrimination against the girls? I’m sure that girls never thought that homecoming queen could be a boy! There ought to be a gender requirement, not a gender preference.

So HCQ is now a PC thing, and to heck with the feelings of all the girls who were overlooked and had dreamed of this event during their HS years. What a bunch of hooey.


133 posted on 10/29/2007 11:03:20 AM PDT by Gumdrop
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To: achilles2000
OK. I fully understand why nobody wrote newspaper articles about this. I also now understand why parents don’t care about these laws. I read every word of it and find it very convoluted and in some parts don’t even know what it means. I saw that Catholic Schools (which my family attends) are not included in this. Public Schools are no longer able to taunt gays but they also can’t say that being gay is a sin. I would rather tell my children at home about what is sinful and what is not. Am I missing something??? I know I did...lol.
134 posted on 10/29/2007 11:05:15 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: puroresu
You wrote: It doesn't mean you hate your homosexual neighbors if you object to two boys being voted in as homecoming "princes", unless we've reached the point where opposition to any demand by homosexuals is considered to be "hate"

They didn't demand it. They were voted into it. They were chosen by their fellow students. Are you aware of them demanding or getting special treatment?

In a sense, you are preaching to the choir, because as I said, I don't have and won't have children in public school. But if there is going to be a public school system, it needs to be equal.

Not having tax-payer funded schools would solve so many problems. It would allow you to put your money where you like for your children's education. I'm doing my part toward this goal by avoiding the public system.

135 posted on 10/29/2007 11:20:52 AM PDT by mountainbunny
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To: napscoordinator

Private schools are included if they directly or indirectly receive state money. So, almost every Catholic university and college in CA is subject to this law (Thomas Aquinas College may be one of the exceptions). All the religious schools can do now is litigate about the “tenets” of their denomination to see if they fall in the “religious exemption”. Homosexual legal groups will use litigation extortionately against Christian organizations.

You don’t understand how “robust” the homosexuals’ position on non-discrimination is. This legislation requires that homosexual/bisexual/weird gender lifestyles be affirmatively presented as morally equivalent to heterosexuality. This applies to representations of the family and marriage. In addition, the definition of gender is radically postmodern - your gender is what you determine it is. Thus, consider the full implications of not “discriminating” on the basis fo gender.

Don’t overlook what 51500 does to curriculum and every activity within a school. It doesn’t cover things that are discriminatory (i.e. “privilege heterosexuality or promote heteronormativity”), it covers things that aren’t discriminatory (those are in 220)but which may promote a discriminatory bias on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, etc.

The impact on textbooks nationally could be very significant.


136 posted on 10/29/2007 11:24:34 AM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: napscoordinator

Private schools are included if they directly or indirectly receive state money. So, almost every Catholic university and college in CA is subject to this law (Thomas Aquinas College may be one of the exceptions). All the religious schools can do now is litigate about the “tenets” of their denomination to see if they fall in the “religious exemption”. Homosexual legal groups will use litigation extortionately against Christian organizations.

You don’t understand how “robust” the homosexuals’ position on non-discrimination is. This legislation requires that homosexual/bisexual/weird gender lifestyles be affirmatively presented as morally equivalent to heterosexuality. This applies to representations of the family and marriage. In addition, the definition of gender is radically postmodern - your gender is what you determine it is. Thus, consider the full implications of not “discriminating” on the basis fo gender.

Don’t overlook what 51500 does to curriculum and every activity within a school. It doesn’t cover things that are discriminatory (i.e. “privilege heterosexuality or promote heteronormativity”), it covers things that aren’t discriminatory (those are in 220)but which may promote a discriminatory bias on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, etc.

The impact on textbooks nationally could be very significant.


137 posted on 10/29/2007 11:25:07 AM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: napscoordinator

Private schools are included if they directly or indirectly receive state money. So, almost every Catholic university and college in CA is subject to this law (Thomas Aquinas College may be one of the exceptions). All the religious schools can do now is litigate about the “tenets” of their denomination to see if they fall in the “religious exemption”. Homosexual legal groups will use litigation extortionately against Christian organizations.

You don’t understand how “robust” the homosexuals’ position on non-discrimination is. This legislation requires that homosexual/bisexual/weird gender lifestyles be affirmatively presented as morally equivalent to heterosexuality. This applies to representations of the family and marriage. In addition, the definition of gender is radically postmodern - your gender is what you determine it is. Thus, consider the full implications of not “discriminating” on the basis fo gender.

Don’t overlook what 51500 does to curriculum and every activity within a school. It doesn’t cover things that are discriminatory (i.e. “privilege heterosexuality or promote heteronormativity”), it covers things that aren’t discriminatory (those are in 220)but which may promote a discriminatory bias on the basis of gender, sexual orientation, etc.

The impact on textbooks nationally could be very significant.


138 posted on 10/29/2007 11:25:29 AM PDT by achilles2000 (Shouting "fire" in a burning building is doing everyone a favor...whether they like it or not)
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To: achilles2000

Thanks. Can the next Governor come in and kick the rules out? Also I am sorry I misspoke when I said that the family goes to Catholic Schools. We do catholic schools through 12th grade and then most of us went to Public Colleges. I believe only one family member when to a catholic university and that was my sister who graduated in 1995.


139 posted on 10/29/2007 11:28:05 AM PDT by napscoordinator
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To: mngran2

sinners in dire need of a Saviour


140 posted on 10/29/2007 11:32:09 AM PDT by tutstar (Baptist Ping list - freepmail me to get on or off.)
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