Effort launched to kill new law touting gay, lesbian contributions

SacBee: Capitol Alert ^ | 7/21/11 | Jim Sanders

[SmithL]

A Sacramento-based advocacy group has filed referendum papers seeking to let voters decide the fate of a new California law requiring public schools to teach about societal contributions made by gay and lesbian people.

Capitol Resource Institute, which describes itself as a "watchdog for family values," filed its documents this month with the state Attorney General's Office, which is a prelude to launching a signature-gathering campaign.

The group hopes to kill Senate Bill 48, legislation that Gov. Jerry Brown said "represents an important step forward for our state"

[SteamShovel]

Laws that celebrate our differences are not helpful to anyone.

[Martin Tell]

Countdown to shrill chants of “Bigot! Bigot! Bigot!”

[Red_Devil 232]

People will not sign the petition for this because if they do they know the gays will be able to get their names and then harass them.

[ColdOne]

Referendum supporters would need to gather about 505,000 voter signatures within 90 days to place the issue before voters next year. Good grief this is Kalifornia for cryin' out loud. If the voters get this the courts will only block it.

[Regulator]

This is a huge issue if the spineless wimps, er, Republicans want to run with it.

Why do I hear the sound of crickets?

[dfwgator]

et voters decide the fate of a new California law requiring public schools to teach about societal contributions made by gay and lesbian people.

The only contributions I know made by gays is AIDS.

[fr_freak]

Good grief this is Kalifornia for cryin' out loud. If the voters get this the courts will only block it.

Yeah...and it will be by a federal judge.

[Pilated]

gay and lesbian people have caused nothing but strife, pain, frustration, obstruction and lesser life enjoyment my entire life! I am sick and tired of hearing their crap!

[fwdude]

This is good news, and I’m confident that they will be able to obtain these signatures. Good people in California are mortified by this. I imagine at least half of those signatures could be obtain just from the LA metro area churches, which are predominantly minority and hate homosexuality.

Perhaps California could simply be run by referendum going forward.

[MrB]

Understand - the homo rights movement is but a facade over the overarching agenda.

The agenda is to destroy the traditional family, Western Culture, and America to implement communist control over everyone.

The commies are simply using the homos for now.

Don’t be as angry with the facade group as you should be with the agenda group.

[a fool in paradise]

And to think the Left decried the Texas impact on textbook contents.

This litmus test strikes out Bill Bennett’s books on American history.

The socialist pinklisting of conservative authors has begun.

[a fool in paradise]

Bet they don’t champion the efforts of Roy Cohn in ridding the US government of communist sympathizers.

[a fool in paradise]

California law prohibits communist influence in the classroom. Some Democrat there was trying to repeal that law in recent years. Nuff said.

[rottndog]

If the voters get this the courts will only block it.

Wrong...A referendum is not a ballot initiative...it's specifically for the purpose of giving the voters veto power over the legislature, by allowing them to overturn a specific law. It's part of the CA constitution, and not subject to judicial review. The only way the courts could intervene would be by a challenge to the validity to the referendum (whether or not the there were enough valid signatures, etc.), not the content of it.

[MrB]

California Dems Introduce Bill To Allow Communist Indoctrination in Public Schools

[krb]

I think they should just add whole chapters about John Wayne Gacy and Jeffrey Dahmer to satisfy the requirements of the law.

[Blood of Tyrants]

That countdown finished years ago.

[newzjunkey]

There is a bill on Brown's desk TODAY would BAN paid signature gatherers. It's SB 168.

Under the guise of preventing fraud, this is all about allowing unions to gather signatures without constraints and making is extremely difficult for others to use the initiative process to reign in government.

Fresno Bee today: EDITORIAL: Governor should veto bill aimed at signature gathering

[newzjunkey]

Signature gathering is under attack, not only from the bill on Brown's desk today but also by union thugs intimidating voters, gatherers and a coordinated campaign of fraud.

We're under such an attack in San Diego which is trying to get a pension reform plan, dubbed "CPR", on the ballot.

After an education reform measure, which had more than enough signatures they believed, failed to get on the ballot due to widespread fraud, the Lincoln Club of San Diego doing the pension reformer initiative are paying an outside company to verify every signature ahead of time and referring those signing a half-dozen times or even more often to the DA's office for potential prosecution.