FL: Homosexual Education Alert

email ^ | 04/07/03 | Linda Harvey

[hsmomx3]

PLEASE FORWARD IMMEDIATELY to anyone you know in FLORIDA.

Emergency Alert – Urgent!

A bill entitled "dignity for all students act" will be voted on in the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee. This bill will require:

1) Christian public school teachers, administrators, and counselors to attend homosexual and transsexual (cross dressers - men who dress as women) sensitivity classes as a condition of employment.

2) Children in Kindergarten to attend for homosexual and transsexual tolerance classes.

3) It will ban Christian students from sharing their faith in Christ to homosexual students.

It is urgent for you to contact the Vice-chairman & chairman of this Senate Judiciary Committee to:

1) Say NO to the "dignity for all students act".

2) Say NO to persecution of religious students.

3) Say NO to persecution of religious teachers.

4) Say NO to Kindergarten to attend for homosexual and transsexual tolerance classes.

This bill is scheduled to be voted on in the committee on Thursday 4/3/03 at 9:00 AM. Forward this email to every in your address book.

On Wednesday April 9th Senate Bill 1498 will be heard in the Senate Education committee at 9 a.m. This bill needs to be killed!!

PLEASE CALL LEGISLATORS IMMEDIATELY!!!!

[hsmomx3]

Wold Jeb Bush really sign this piece of legislation?

[2timothy3.16]

Would Jeb Bush really sign this piece of legislation?

I wouldn't think so, but, who is he more like, his brother or his father? His dad might sign it.

[sarasota]

I have a daughter in Florida. She will keep her daughter at a small private school to avoid the dance of the NEA.
What utter nonsense.

[ArGee]

This bill is scheduled to be voted on in the committee on Thursday 4/3/03 at 9:00 AM.

Did it pass?

Shalom.

[John_11_25]

If this is the type of democrazy and cultural understanding we are attempting to export to Iraq and the middle east?

And we wonder why the US is hated!!

[biblewonk]

3) It will ban Christian students from sharing their faith in Christ to homosexual students.

Oh please throw me in jail for giving the gospel to someone!!!!

[Johnny Gage]

Florida ping

[ladylib]

Home schooling is growing in Florida. If this bill is passed, private schools and home schooling might grow even more:

http://hslda.org/docs/link.asp?URL=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Etownhall%2Ecom%2Fcolumnists%2Fphyllisschlafly%2Fps20020604%2Eshtml

At least when you home school, you can choose what you want your children to learn and when, and no religious school is going to indoctrinate kids into tolerating the homosexual lifestyle -- not if they want to stay in business.

[taxcontrol]

Well if it does pass, I can just see the following advertisements.

1) Send you kids to school to learn how to become homosexual!

2) After School LAMDA party!

3) Your kid having a tough time in school - maybe it's because they are not gay enough.

etc.

Could inspire a few of the sheeeple to look into the topic and perhaps pull their kids from school.

[Digger]

Let's just ask the Bushes, why do we have a Dept. of Education?? Then we can get the "Potomic two-step" answer.

[Semper Vigilantis]

Florida is fast becoming the California of the Eastern US

[LiteKeeper]

bump

[UCFRoadWarrior]

The FL state house and senate are strongly GOP...I dont think it will get thru the House.....though the Senate may pass it

Even though both bodies are GOP, Jeb hasnt got along at times w them, esp over budget battles.

Would Jeb sign it......I dont think so. Politically Jeb is somewhere between his father and brother.....closer to his brother, though, politically

I think this bill is more HomoNazi extremism. I am sure it was one of the far-left Dems from South Fla who proposed this. This legislation is downright insensitive and hateful towards Christians

[Dutchgirl]

I have traveresed the enemy's sites in order to obtain some vital info, I am including an article from 2001 which made me chuckle at the time... Please note, the action item below is from a PRO GAY web site. When contacting the "waffling" legislators, be sure and ask them how the legislature can confer "dignity" on any group of persons based soley on their sexual preferences ?

Report: Legislator tells gay students God will destroy them

by Barbara Dozetos Gay.com / PlanetOut.com Network

A group of gay and lesbian Florida high school students looking for legislative sponsors for an anti-discrimination law instead got an anti-gay lecture from one state representative.
"I don't understand why the gay population is becoming so vocal," state Rep. Allen Trovillion, 74, told the students after he listened to their request for support of the Florida Dignity for All Students Act, according to a report in the Tampa Tribune. "You are going to cause the downfall of this country."
The legislator, who represents the suburbs of Orlando, told gay students visiting the state capital as part of Equality Florida Youth Lobby Day that they were throwing their lives away and that God would destroy them. Ann-Marie Manchise, a University of South Florida journalism student, reported the legislator's comments in the Tribune.
According to Manchise's report, Trovillion's comments left at least one student, 17-year-old Chris Vasquez, in tears. "The Florida Legislature says we're going to hell," Vasquez said. "The part that really bothers me is the fact that he's one of the people we're supposed to look up to for moral guidance and support," he added. "[Trovillion is] spouting ... ideas that only make the world more dangerous for gay youth."
In his comments to the students, Trovillion also quoted scripture and said, "God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, and he is going to destroy you and a lot of others," Manchise reported.
The students had better luck with other legislators and hope to introduce the bill, which would add sexual orientation and gender identity to state non-discrimination laws, to the Legislature early next year. (Posted April 10, 2001)

YOU CAN MAKE HISTORY THIS WEEK!

The Dignity for All Students Bill is Being Debated in the Senate Education Committee on Thursday, April 3.

Thanks to your help and the work of student organizers and adult allies, we have a strong chance of succeeding in this crucial first step to making schools safe for all Florida students, but the members of the committee need to keep hearing from you.

We must keep those calls and e-mail flowing between today and Thursday morning!

STEP ONE
Imagine a state where students don't need to fear harassment because of their race, gender, sexual orientation, ability, nationality, religion, or gender identity and where teachers are taught how to stop harassment and violence. Imagine that state is FLORIDA! (GAG!- We've given you Key West, leave our kids alone!)

STEP TWO Forward this email to every person you can think of who cares about the safety of Florida students.

STEP THREE Telephone the following members of the Senate Education Committee in Tallahassee. If you don't have time to call them all, please start at the top of the list and work your way down. The list has been prioritized with key swing votes at the top.

Sen. Dave Aronberg (850) 487-5356
Sen. Lee Constantine (850) 487-5050
Sen. Ken Pruitt (850) 487-5088
Sen. Stephen Wise (850) 487-5027
Sen. Larcenia Bullard (850) 487-5127
Sen. Anna Cowin (850) 487-5014
Sen. Charlie Clary (850) 487-5009
Sen. Lisa Carlton (850) 487-5081
Sen. Jim Sebesta (850) 487-5075
Sen. Ron Klein (850) 487-5091
Sen. Frederica Wilson (850) 487-5116

Please personalize the following script (you will most likely be speaking to a legislative aide):

Hello. My name is ..................... . I'm calling to ask Senator ....................... to support SB 1498, NOT the Dignity for All Students bill when it comes before the Education Committee. When students aren't safe, they can't learn and teachers need clear guidelines on how to stop harassment. Thank you.

STEP FOUR

Email the committee members at the following addresses: aronberg.dave.web@flsenate.gov constantine.lee.web@flsenate.gov pruitt.ken.web@flsenate.gov wise.stephen.web@flsenate.gov bullard.larcenia.web@flsenate.gov cowin.anna.web@flsenate.gov clary.charlie.web@flsenate.gov carlton.lisa.web@flsenate.gov sebesta.jim.web@flsenate.gov klein.ron.web@flsenate.gov wilson.frederica.web@flsenate.gov

Please personalize the following message: Dear Senator,

I am writing to ask you to support the Dignity for All Students Act (SB 1498). Harassment is a large and growing problem in our schools and we need this important bill to ensure that every Florida student has a safe learning environment.

I know you have a commitment to Florida's youth and quality education. Can I count on your support for this bill?

[ClearCase_guy]

3) It will ban Christian students from sharing their faith in Christ to homosexual students.

By any chance is this a hoax? I realize that (technically) the First Amendment limits what actions the US Congress may take -- and this is (supposedly) a bill at the state level. But really! Legislation that targets one specific religious group and says "You people are enjoined not to speak of your religion."

And that bit about separating out Christians for re-education camps (item #1, I think). This just seems too over-the-top. But perhaps we have really come to the End Times.

[hsmomx3]

No, not a hoax. They had this last year and it also got a lot of airtime on local radio shows such as KFYI in Phoenix.

[I got the rope]

Are Sodomites still banned from adopting in Florida?

[Kuksool]

Yes, the gay adoption ban is still in place. Last year, Janet Reno tried to make gay rights a major campaign issue against Jeb Bush. It gave Reno no political momentum. Now, the sodomities are challenging the law in federal court.