Bet You Didn't Know

Snowden · 02-24-2008, 11:20

Bet You Didn't Know
By Greg Crosby

The holidays are a busy time, so there's a pretty good chance that you weren't aware of a new California state bill which was passed a few months back and took effect last month. Better sit down for this one, it's a doozy! On October 12th Govern-ator Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law California Senate Bill 777. That bill eliminates Education Code 212, which defines "sex" as "the biological condition or quality of being a male or female human being."

In effect the bill redefines the term "gender" for all schoolchildren by adding Educational Code 210.7, which will read: "'Gender' means sex, and includes a person's gender identity and gender related appearance and behavior whether [of] or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth." In other words, it is a redefinition of gender that says you are whatever you choose to be regardless of your anatomical make-up. It tells kids that just because you are born a little girl or little boy, that doesn't mean you are.

Public schools have been teaching cultural, social, and moral relativism for years. Now they'll be promoting sexual relativism too. All lifestyles are equally wonderful. All sexual orientation is equally wonderful. If you're a little boy, but you want to be like your sister - well, go for it. Dress like her. That's okay.

The ridiculous law has effectively banned use of the terms "mom" and "dad" from California schools. The reason? Using those terms promotes a discriminatory bias against alternative lifestyle parents. I never thought I'd live to see the day when "mommy" and "daddy" would be considered bad words. All kinds of vulgarity and foul language are just fine in these modern, progressive times - but you better not say "mom" and "dad!" That's wrong! What country am I living in anyway?

It's important to understand that this stuff will be taught to all children in the public school system beginning in kindergarten! Indoctrinating five and six year-olds to favor sodomy as a healthy and normal lifestyle choice has rankled some parents to say the least. Various Christian grassroots organizations have now joined together in calling for an "exodus" from the California public school system. The coalition includes Eagle Forum, the Campaign for Children and Families, and Exodus Mandate, as well as ten others.

Phyllis Schlafly, President of Eagle Forum, in an interview with Christian Newswire said the following, "Many of us have worked to reform public schools. Unfortunately, SB 777 and the related legislation represent a repudiation of 2,000 years of Christian moral teaching on human sexuality, marriage, and the family. The result is that California's schools are now promoting behaviors and lifestyles that are physically and spiritually dangerous for children. Consequently, in California, parents must try to find alternatives to the public schools."

Randy Thomasson, chief of the Campaign for Children and Families, is one of those who originally called for an abandonment of public schools. "First, the law allowed public schools to voluntarily promote homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality," Thomasson said. "Then the law required public schools to accept homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual teachers as role models for impressionable children. Now the law has been changed to effectively require the positive portrayal of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality to six million children in California government-controlled schools. To rescue their children, loving parents need to find an alternative to government schools, and every church needs to make it a priority to help parents be in charge of their children's education again."

Alternative lifestyle groups claim that all they want is the end of discriminatory bias. Officials with the Gay-Straight Alliance Network and the Transgender Law Center already have outlined what they believe to be nondiscriminatory treatment in the school system. "If you want to use a restroom that matches your gender identity … you should be allowed to do so," the groups advise. "Whenever students are divided up into boys and girls, you should be allowed to join the group or participate in the program that matches your gender identity as much as possible."

Further, the groups advise, "If you change your name to one that better matches your gender identity, a school needs to use that name to refer to you." Get it? Take your choice. Who do you feel like being today - Max or Maxine? The advocacy group also warns schools against bringing parents into any such discussion with students. Yeah, keep those parents out of this by all means. It takes a village, not parents.

This is not about having tolerance for others. This goes way beyond that. This is not just tolerating, or accepting those who may be different from us - this is about promoting alternative lifestyles and selling the idea to young impressionable children without parents having a say in it. That's the deal. So, if you desire a good, solid, sensible education for your kids without state indoctrination better think about getting them out of the California school system, but quick. And that, as Robert Blake used to say, is the name of that tune.

Greg Crosby

redtanker · 02-24-2008, 11:24

very interesting post, I want to see where this goes. i think people are not happy about it. and may start to show concern

Shooterman · 02-24-2008, 11:43

I can remember in the not so distant past when some folks were touting a Constitutional amendment to allow Ahnold to run for President. My, my, my!

Snowden · 02-24-2008, 12:16

Well, I'm glad our Constitution forbids it. I wonder if he reads what he signs; if so, he's a sick pup and it's just beginning to creep out of him. A bill like this should have been deep sixed long before it got to him!

Something evil must be in the water there..

Snowden · 02-24-2008, 14:53

PRO-SODOMY BILL SPARKS CALIFORNIA PUBLIC SCHOOL EXODUS

Nicholas Jackson
February 17, 2008
NewsWithViews.com

“We’re Here, we’re queer, we’re in the classroom.”

Lesbian Activist Donna Red Wing addressing Gay, Lesbian and Straight Teachers Network, 1995.

Last year, California Governor Schwarzenegger signed legislation mandating that public school children as young as 5 years old be indoctrinated to accept the abnormal homosexual lifestyle and other forms of sexual deviancy.

Christians are saying enough is enough. A broad coalition of Christian grassroots organizations have joined forces to call for California families and churches to rescue their children from California's public schools. 600,000 students may leave the California schools this year alone through their efforts.

The growing coalition includes Eagle Forum, the Campaign for Children and Families, Exodus Mandate, and ten more sponsors, five of which are based in California. These organizations will be providing information to California parents and pastors concerning the new school legislation, how it mainstreams sexual deviancy, and what they can do about it. (Christiannewswire)

What SB 777 Means for Your Children

With the passage of SB 777, homosexual activists now have state approval and a wide open door to promote their corrupting agenda. SB 777 forces schoolchildren to support all aspects of transexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, mandating changes to all textbooks, instructional materials, and school activities. Here is brief outline of the changes to California code.

SB 777 uses the anything-goes definitions of transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality from the California Penal Code, Section 422.55-57. “Gender” and “sexual orientation” in 422.55 are defined by 422.56 and 422.57 to mean all aspects of transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, whether by appearance or behavior. "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.
SB 777 brings the Penal Code’s definitions of transsexuality and sex changes, bisexuality and homosexuality into the California Education Code, and deletes the true definition of sex and gender, which is “the biological condition or quality or being a male or female human being.”
SB 777 then inserts all aspects of transsexuality, cross-dressing, bisexuality and homosexuality into Education Code Section 220, making this section depend on the unlimited sexual behavior and appearance definitions in the Penal Code: SEC. 11.
SB 777 then proceeds to impose Section 220’s definitions on all schools to require all “instruction” and “activities” (textbooks, instructional materials, classroom instruction, school activities, etc.) to positively portray (not “promote a discriminatory bias” upon) sex changes, cross-dressing, homosexual marriages, and all aspects of bisexuality and homosexuality. This mandate affects children from kindergarten through 12th grade in California public schools. (Randy Thomasson, Campaign for Children and Families)

Bruce Shortt, author of The Harsh Truth About Public Schools, notes, “No longer will children raised in these schools understand that God made us male and female. Children will be told that because there are many sexual orientations and gender identities, they simply have to reach their own conclusions about which sexual orientation and gender ‘possibilities’ are ‘right for them.’ Along with this will come the message that you really can’t tell whether you like something unless you have tried it. The likely consequences of this for children, the institution of the family, our churches, and our culture are horrendous.”

California Burning
Phyllis Schlafly, President of Eagle Forum conveys the urgency, “Many of us have worked to reform public schools. Unfortunately, SB 777 and the related legislation represent a repudiation of 2,000 years of Christian moral teaching on human sexuality, marriage, and the family. The result is that California’s schools are now promoting behaviors and lifestyles that are physically and spiritually dangerous for children.”

Randy Thomasson of the California-based Campaign for Children and Families has witnessed the attack on parental rights over the last several years, “First, the law allowed public schools to voluntarily promote homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality. Then, the law required public schools to accept homosexual, bisexual, and transsexual teachers as role models for impressionable children. Now, the law has been changed to effectively require the positive portrayal of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality to six million children in California government-controlled schools. To rescue their children, loving parents need to find an alternative to government schools, and every church needs to make it a priority to help parents be in charge of their children’s education again.”

We have never been faced with a threat this great to schoolchildren’s innocence. Exposing young children to ideas and images of homosexuality leaves lasting and corrupting impressions which cannot be easily removed. "Private schools and homeschooling will be the only sanctuary left for parents in California who love their children and want to protect their sexual innocence." Says Thomasson. (WND, Oct. 16th)

The California Crisis, an America Crisis
“The Crisis in California marks the beginning of a new era of persecution in the history of state sponsored, public schools,” says E. Ray Moore, coalition leader and founder of Exodus Mandate. “It is not just a California Crisis but an American Crisis. The passage of SB 777 and AB 394 by the California legislature in 2007 mandates the systematic destruction of the traditional family.”

"There's no stopping this movement. I think they're going to take over the entire system in the next two to five years. "I can't predict how fast the virus will run throughout the public school system, but I think it cannot be stopped," he said. “It is an incredible opportunity for Exodus Mandate to do what we do best, to advocate the biblical message Christian children need Christian education.”

Moore went on to call for Christians to be obedient, "You are being irresponsible as a parent to put your child in a public school," Moore said. We must exercise our religious freedom now and remove our children from godless and pagan public schools.”

"If traditional minded people abandon that system in enough numbers, it will implode. By leaving your children there as a Christian you're exposing them to extreme moral danger. You can't immunize them with a few hours of Bible study during the week," he said. (WND, Oct. 16th)

A Campaign worth Supporting

While the “anybody but Hillary” express will be gaining steam towards November, Exodus California will be working overtime using creative ideas such as teacher and parental pull out pledges to reach their threefold goals:

To Assist the general public in understanding the implications of SB 777 and AB 394 for the Christian community in the United States, in California and around the world.
To see 10 percent of all Christian parents in California pull their children out of the public schools
To see 3 percent to 7 percent of the teaching and administrative staffs resign from the secular schools system and practice their profession in Christian settings.

Moore continues, “As long as the majority of Christians keep their children in the Humanist school systems we can’t win the culture war. To think otherwise doesn’t pass the common sense test or the theology test.”

"This really is a call to conservative and Christian pro-family groups to give up this absurd idea of public school reform. It can't be done. The longer they talk about saving public schools, the longer they prolong this agony, when they could be setting up new schools." (WND, Oct. 16th)

It’s time to get behind a campaign that will have eternal benefits.

Every Christian ministry should hitch one horse to the exodus wagon. Continuing to reform the public schools is akin to putting polish on rotting wood. We have a new teacher in California, one who promotes sodomy and radically opposes the traditional family.

The student in the end becomes like his teacher.

The new school year starts in August.

California, Let Your Children Go!

Additional information can be found at,
1, www.californiaexodus.org,
2, www.savecalifornia.com, and
3, www.exodusmandate.org.

Chrisj · 02-25-2008, 19:04

In the UK the terms mother and father and even parent have been dropped for fear of causing offence to any of the varied lifestyles people aspire to nowadays. Same sex couples, single parent families and any other alternate family arrangement appears to be viewed by the education system as equal or even preferable to a stable traditional nuclear family.