Homosexual Agenda - California Legislation In Process

Various - Leginfo.ca.gov ^ | June 2006

[calcowgirl]

The above information was collected from various sources, primarily excerpts from bills and legislation at leginfo.com.

All of these bills are identified on the website of Equality California, a well funded California’s LGBT civil rights and advocacy organization, who has sponsored much of the legislation. The status of each bill was taken from their website.

[calcowgirl]

PING! FYI

[calcowgirl]

CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN PARTY PLATFORM

We recognize that the two-parent family provides the best environment of stability, discipline, charity and responsibility. We commend and support those single parents who struggle to maintain stable homes for their families. We resist the efforts of the liberals in the Democrat Party to redefine the traditional family. We offer the Republican Party as an option to all who are concerned about the deterioration of the American family.

Recognizing the traditional model of monogamous heterosexual marriage as the only stable relationship upon which to build a society, we believe that homosexuality should not be presented as an acceptable "alternative" lifestyle in public education and policy. We oppose granting to homosexuals special privileges, including marriage, domestic partnership benefits, and child custody or adoption.

[calcowgirl]

Contact your legislators:

Assemblymembers' Phone Numbers and Addresses

Senators' Phone Numbers and Addresses

You can also call the Governor's offices at any of the following numbers and let him know what you think:

916-445-2841 (Sacramento)
619-525-4641 (San Diego)
213-897-0322 (Los Angeles)
559-445-5295 (Fresno)
951-680-6860 (Riverside)

Their automated phone system is currently asking for input on AB 606 and SB 1439
(but you can specify any bill number using their automated system.)

[calcowgirl]

"No Republican governor in California history has promoted transsexuality, bisexuality and homosexuality like Arnold Schwarzenegger has. In the last three years, Schwarzenegger has delighted homosexual activists by signing most of the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) bills that the Democrat-controlled Legislature has placed on his desk. "
--Randy Thomasson, President, Campaign for Children and Families [Source]

"Since taking office in 2003, has signed two dozen bills in support of rights for the gay and lesbian communities." [Source]

"The attempt to pass gay marriage was a cynical attempt to embarrass a governor who, up until that point, had been recognized by Equality California and the Human Rights Campaign as the most gay-friendly governor in history."
--Ralph Denney, Log Cabin Candidate for California Assembly (San Diego-AD 76), [Source]

[EternalVigilance]

"Woe unto those who call evil good..."

[calcowgirl]

Legislation Vetoed in by Governor Schwarzenegger in 2005

• AB 849 - The Religious Freedom & Civil Marriage Protection Act  [Vetoed 09/29/05]
Mark Leno (D-San Francisco) and Assembly Speaker Fabian Núñez (D- Los Angeles)
Existing law provides that marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between a man and a woman (Prop 22 - Family Code). This bill would instead provide that marriage is a personal relation arising out of a civil contract between 2 persons. (formerly known as AB 19)

 

• AB 866 - Code of Fair Campaign Practices [Vetoed 09/07/05]
Speaker Pro Tem Leland Yee (D-San Francisco/Daly City)
This bill would add to the pledge contained in the Code of Fair Campaign Practices that the candidate will not use or permit any appeal to negative prejudice based on sexual orientation or gender identity.

 

[little jeremiah]

Thanks for the ping, calcowgirl! DBeers is now the controller of the Homosexual Agenda ping list, I'm sure he'd appreciate if you ping him to relevant articles.

[calcowgirl]

I couldn't find all two dozen bills signed since Arnold took office (that Thomasson refers to), but here are some of them.

Legislation Signed in 2005

• SB 565 by Senator Carole Migden (D-San Francisco) - Property tax reappraisal exclusion: domestic partners.
Prior to this bill, there was no domestic partner exclusion that equates to the interspousal exclusion. This bill establishes an exclusion from reassessment for transfers of real property between registered domestic partners. The author indicated that the bill is intended "to guarantee equality for all Californians, regardless of gender or sexual orientation, and to further the state's interests in protecting Californians from the potentially severe economic and social consequences of abandonment, separation, the death of a partner, and other life crises."

• SB 973 by Senator Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) - Public employees' retirement: domestic partners.
Bill amends the Public Employees Retirement System (PERS), the State Teachers Retirement System (STRS), and the County Employees Retirement Act of 1937 to entitle retired members to elect to change optional retirement allowances to provide for their domestic partners.

• AB 228 by Assemblymember Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood) - Transplantation services: human immunodeficiency virus.
Prohibits health care service plans (health plans) and health insurers from denying coverage for organ or tissue transplantation services on the basis that an enrollee, subscriber, insured, or policyholder is infected with HIV.

• AB 1142 by Assemblymember Marvyn Dymally (D-Compton) - HIV/AIDS: African-Americans: statewide initiative.
This bill establishes the Statewide African-American Initiative to address the disproportionate impact of HIV/AIDS on the health of African-Americans by coordinating prevention and service networks around the state in an effort to increase the capacity of core service providers.

• AB 1586 by Assemblymember Paul Koretz (D-West Hollywood) - Insurers: health care service plans: discrimination.
This bill adds additional language to existing anti-discrimination provisions under the Health and Safety Code and the Insurance Code to clarify that state law prohibits insurance companies and health care service plans from discriminating on the basis of gender in the creation or maintenance of service contracts or the provision of benefits or coverage. Defines the term "sex," in existing law that prohibits health care service plans (health plans) and insurers from specified discriminatory acts, to have the same meaning as "gender," as defined under the Penal Code, as specified.

• AB 1400 by Assemblymember John Laird (D-Santa Cruz) - Unruh Civil Rights Act: marital status and sexual orientation
The Unruh Civil Rights Act (Act) provides that all persons, regardless of their sex, race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, or medical condition are entitled to the full and equal accommodations, advantages, facilities, privileges and services in all business establishments of every kind. This bill clarifies that marital status and sexual orientation are among the characteristics that are protected against discrimination by business establishments under the Act. This bill also imports into the Act definitions of the terms "disability," "religion," "sex," and "sexual orientation" from the Fair Employment and Housing Act, and includes, in enumerating the above characteristics, the perception of those characteristics and association with a person who has or is perceived to have those characteristics as being within the protected categories. These definitions will be integrated into other related provisions of the Act.

Legislation Signed - 2004:

• AB 2900 - Employment:  discrimination
John Laird (D-Santa Cruz)
Amended employment anti-discrimination statutes to prohibit discrimation on the same bases as in the Fair Employment and Housing Act.  Those bases are race, religious creed, color, national origin, ancestry, physical disability, mental disability, medical condition, marital status, sex, age, or sexual orientation.  Various provisions of prior law prohibited discrimination in employment on different bases, including the race, color, sex, religion, and marital status of a person.

 

[muawiyah]

When the Mexicans take over California you're not going to see any more of this nonsense.

[cowtowney]

ping

[calcowgirl]

I did ping DBeers, but didn't want to leave ya out! :-)

[DBeers]

Thanks for the ping.

[calcowgirl]

Ooops... that should have read:

"Schwarzenegger... since taking office in 2003, has signed two dozen bills in support of rights for the gay and lesbian communities."

[george76]

[calcowgirl]

"In politics, I believe we need to address problems rather than attacking people.... Whether you're gay or straight, everyone needs someone to love."
--Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, June 29, 2006 speaking to Log Cabin Republicans [Source]

"California is diverse, but it must never be divided. So, tonight I want you to know that I am proud to be on the same team with you. I can't promise you that I will always be of the same mind, but I can promise you that I will always have an open mind."
--Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, June 29, 2006 speaking to Log Cabin Republicans [Source]

"I personally think that a marriage should be between a man and a woman. But I think a gay couple should have all the rights that a marriage has."
--Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, in a 2005 interview with the San Diego Union-Tribune editorial board [Source]

"I have no sexual standards in my head that say this is good or this is bad. Homosexual-that only means to me that he enjoys sex with a man and I enjoy sex with a woman. It's all legitimate to me."
--Arnold Schwarzenegger, Interview with Cosmopolitan magazine [Source]

[Paperdoll]

Thanks for the ping, calcowgirl. Looks like the straights in California really have their work cut out for them. The next thing you know, the legislature will be trying to pass laws like these to protect pedophiles and murderers.

[FairOpinion]

1. You omitted mentioning that Arnold VETOED the homosexual marriage bill and stated that he WILL VETO the bill requiring that contributions of homosexuals be discussed in schools.

2. What do you think would happen to these bills if Angelides gets elected, who stated that he is in favor of the homosexual marriage?

"Angelides calls himself a champion of "progressive values." As state treasurer, he has pushed public pension funds to dump tobacco stocks, invest in urban renewal projects and pressure corporations into cleaning up the environment. A close ally of labor, he also supports abortion rights, gay marriage, gun control and driver's licenses for illegal immigrants."

[Amerigomag]

Take care. This thread is beginning to remind me of a standard, FairOpinion presentation where ever other reply is the author's.

It would be a travesty if your enthusiasm ended up branding you with the same reputation.

[calcowgirl]

You omitted mentioning that Arnold VETOED the homosexual marriage bill

Wrong as usual. See post #7.

What do you think would happen to these bills if Angelides gets elected?

If the same legislation were being introduced under a Governor (D), I would be urging the exact same thing: CONTACT your Legislators AND the Governor's office.