{"id":2556,"date":"2007-10-26T11:29:47","date_gmt":"2007-10-26T15:29:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/26\/a-dangerous-precedent-abuilding-in-california\/"},"modified":"2007-10-26T11:29:47","modified_gmt":"2007-10-26T15:29:47","slug":"a-dangerous-precedent-abuilding-in-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orthodoxytoday.org\/blog\/2007\/10\/a-dangerous-precedent-abuilding-in-california\/","title":{"rendered":"A Dangerous Precedent Abuilding in California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Free Congress Foundation<\/a> | Paul M. Weyrich | October 25, 2007<\/p>\n

There is terrible news from California. On October 12, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law three bills which, the opposition argues, introduce the radical homosexual agenda into educational institutions. Unquestionably the traditional purpose of public education is to teach reading, writing, mathematics and other fundamentals necessary for well-rounded intellectual development. Instead, these institutions apparently will become miniature laboratories for redefining nature, implementing \u201cgender theory\u201d and experimenting with the effects of sexual lifestyles. <\/p>\n

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The first bill, SB 777, evidently bans anything in public schools that could be interpreted as discriminating against or critical of homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality or other alternative lifestyle choices. It prohibits any classroom instruction or school-sponsored activity that \u201cpromotes a discriminatory bias\u201d against \u201csexual orientation\u201d and \u201cgender,\u201d which includes cross-dressing, sex changes and any other behavior \u201cnot stereotypically associated with one\u2019s assigned sex at birth.\u201d Forget any book, reference or teaching aid which shows marriage as only between a man and a woman (the definition California voters approved several years ago); materials which say people are born male or female (not in-between or subject to change); sources which fail to include a variety of transsexual, bisexual and homosexual historical figures; and sex education materials which fail to offer the option of sex changes. In addition, homecoming kings can now be either male or female, as can homecoming queens, and students, whether male or female, must be allowed to use the restroom and locker room corresponding to the sex with which they choose to identify (potentially especially pernicious to young girls). Such an attempt to redefine language to suit one\u2019s political and sexual interests would make George Orwell proud. <\/p>\n

AB 394 requires the State Department of Education to monitor adherence to anti-discrimination and anti-harassment requirements involving \u201cactual or perceived gender identification and sexual orientation\u201d in local schools. Schools must adopt policies which prohibit discrimination and harassment based upon sexual identity or orientation and a process to receive and investigate complaints in these cases. Schools also will have to provide classroom handouts (including some specifically for parents) and display information in the halls, lounges and on websites that specifically address \u201cbias-related discrimination and harassment\u201d against homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality or other \u201calternative lifestyle choices.\u201d <\/p>\n

The final bill, AB 14, prohibits state funding for any program that does not support a range of alternative sexual practices, including state-funded social services run by churches. This means that day-cares, preschools, after-school programs, food and housing programs, senior services, anti-gang efforts, job programs and others must all teach and accept homosexuality, bisexuality, transsexuality and all the other sexualities. It also forces every hospital in California, even private and religious hospitals, to adopt policies of support for the aforementioned sexualities and opens up non-profit organizations to lawsuits if they exclude members who engage in any such sexual conduct.<\/p>\n

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