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CALL YOUR CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLYMEMBER RIGHT NOW
Only Republican voices can sway Arnold Schwarzenegger to veto school indoctrination bills headed to his desk!
AUGUST 9 UPDATE FROM CCF PRESIDENT RANDY THOMASSON:
Today, after spending hours at the California State Capitol, I returned to my office concerned that hardly any Republican assemblymembers plan to speak against SB 1437 (one of the Democrats' FOUR school sexual indoctrination bills) when SB 1437 is voted upon on Thursday morning, August 10. As it stands right now, many Republican assemblymembers (there are 31 total) seem unwilling to speak against SB 1437 and be a voice for children and families in this battle. You'd think they'd want to do better, especially since most Assembly Republicans blew it Monday by voting with the Democrats to slightly water down SB 1437. These amendments are tempting Arnold Schwarzenegger to change his mind and sign SB 1437, turning every California school into a transsexual-bisexual-homosexual school. Don't let this happen!
Here's the immediate need: California Republican assemblymembers must be urged to SPEAK OUT against this year's raft of anti-family bills. Only Republican legislators can represent family values with their voices on the floor of the Assembly. Why is speaking out so important? Because their voices will get in the media. And their voices will be heard by Arnold Schwarzenegger. If enough Republicans speak out, they'll convince our election-year Governor keep his promise to veto SB 1437 when it arrives on his desk. They can make Arnold veto SB 1437.
The only question is, will Republican assemblymembers have enough backbone to speak out against anti-family bills on behalf of you, your children and grandchildren? They should use the voice God gave them, to get the attention of the media and the Governor. They should speak for you and your family. You should expect no less.
Republican legislators should also speak against three other sexual indoctrination bills that are headed to the Assembly floor, AB 606, AB 1056, and SB 1441. Because Republicans are a numerical minority in the California Legislature, and because California has a liberal Republican governor, Republican legislators' voices actually matter more than their votes!
STEP 1: Please call your own Republican state assemblymember right now. Tell him or her to "Speak out against all four sexual indoctrination bills, SB 1437, AB 606, AB 1056, and SB 1441. I expect the member to speak out on my behalf against these bills on the Assembly floor."
IMPORTANT: If the assemblymember's office tells you the member is VOTING "no" on SB 1437, as if that's enough, don't settle for this response or ANY excuse to be silent on the Assembly floor. Just say, "That's not good enough. There's no reason not to be part of this important debate. The member needs to speak out on the floor to send Governor Schwarzenegger a clear message that Republicans and families oppose SB 1437." (If no one answers your phone call, leave a message or call first thing Thursday morning.)
PHONE NUMBERS FOR CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN ASSEMBLYMEMBERS
Enter your zip code to find who your assemblymember is
Greg Aghazarian (Stockton) 916-319-2026
Tim Leslie (Roseville) 916-319-2004
John Benoit (Palm Desert) 916-319-2064
Bill Maze (Visalia) 916-319-2034
Sam Blakeslee (San Luis Obispo) 916-319-2033
Kevin McCarthy (Bakersfield) 916-319-2032
Russ Bogh (Yucaipa) 916-319-2065
Dennis Mountjoy (Monrovia) 916-319-2059
Dave Cogdill (Modesto) 916-319-2025
Alan Nakanishi (Lodi) 916-319-2010
Lynn Daucher (Brea) 916-319-2072
Roger Niello (Sacramento) 916-319-2005
Chuck DeVore (Irvine) 916-319-2070
George Plescia (San Diego) 916-319-2075
Bill Emmerson (Redlands) 916-319-2063
Keith Richman (Granada Hills) 916-319-2038
Bonnie Garcia (Cathedral City) 916-319-2080
Sharon Runner (Lancaster) 916-319-2036
Ray Haynes (Riverside) 916-319-2066
Todd Spitzer (Orange) 916-319-2071
Shirley Horton (San Diego) 916-319-2078
Audra Strickland (Camarillo) 916-319-2037
Guy Houston (San Ramon) 916-319-2015
Van Tran (Costa Mesa) 916-319-2068
Bob Huff (Diamond Bar) 916-319-2060
Michael Villines (Clovis) 916-319-2029
Rick Keene (Chico) 916-319-2003
Mimi Walters (Laguna Niguel) 916-319-2073
Doug La Malfa (Redding) 916-319-2002
Mark Wyland (Carlsbad) 916-319-2074
Jay La Suer (La Mesa) 916-319-2077
STEP 2: Please call your own Democrat assemblymember -- and especially call the following Democrats who could be persuaded to oppose SB 1437 on Thursday. Urge them to "Oppose SB 1437. The effect of this bill will be all kinds of sexual lifestyles depicted in school textbooks. That's wrong. Our children don't need SB 1437." (If no one answers your phone call, leave a message or call first thing Thursday morning.)
IMPORTANT: If a Democrat staffer says you have it wrong and SB 1437 is only about "non-discrimination" or anything else, stop them and say, "I'm not here to debate you. Please do your job and give my message to the member. I will be watching his/her vote."
PHONE NUMBERS FOR "SWING" DEMOCRAT ASSEMBLYMEMBERS
Enter your zip code to find who your assemblymember is
Juan Arambula (Fresno) 916-319-2031
Gloria Negrete McLeod (Chino) 916-319-2061
Joe Baca, Jr. (San Bernardino) 916-319-2062
Cindy Montanez (San Fernando) 916-319-2039
Ed Chavez (La Puente) 916-319-2057
Nicole Parra (Bakersfield) 916-319-2030
Jerome Horton (Inglewood) 916-319-2051
Alberto Torrico (Fremont) 916-319-2020
Barbara Matthews (Tracy) 916-319-2017
Juan Vargas (San Diego) 916-319-2079
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Add -On:
If you don't think that these bills are harmful, please read the following two analyses. If you are a born-again, Bible-believing Christian follower of Jesus Christ, I'm sure you will change your mind about that!
Christine
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Legislation: California Bills: SB 1437 Analysis
Too often, bill alerts and legislative bulletins tell you what a bill does, but not how it does it. It's important to understand exactly how SB 1437 will destroy the traditional family in California public schools. CCF's legal analysis goes straight to the source of SB 1437, by looking at the text of the bill itself.
To read CCF's legal analysis of SB 1437, scroll down.
To read the full text of SB 1437, click here.
Related bills (summary and analysis): AB 606 AB 1056
Get the status of SB 1437 and voice your opposition at CCF's Action Center.
SUMMARY: SB 1437 expressly prohibits textbooks, instructional materials, and school-sponsored activities from “reflecting adversely” on transsexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality. Instructional materials could not only say “a husband and wife,” but must include “two wives who are married lesbians.” Sex education assemblies would have to include information on sex changes (to avoid “reflecting adversely”).
ANALYSIS OF SB 1437, AS AMENDED AUGUST 7, 2006
The August 7 amendments of SB 1437 merely removed the duplicative section requiring study of transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual historical figures, and the subjective requirement that the instruction be "age appropriate." The core of the bill remains as the requirement that all California public schools do not portray negatively but positively portray transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality in all textbooks, instructional materials, and school activities.
As amended, here is what SB 1437 will do:
1. SB 1437 will force all California public schools to promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality to schoolchildren as young as kindergarten.
SB 1437 is a sexual-agenda bomb dressed up as a child-caring Easter egg. Lesbian legislators such as the bill’s author, Sheila James Kuehl, a Santa Monica Democrat, would have you believe that SB 1437 merely updates school anti-discrimination policies. To that end, the bill incorporates the explosive terms "gender" (which includes transsexuality and transvestitism) and "sexual orientation" (meaning bisexuality and homosexuality) in a long list of anti-discrimination clauses.
But the bill is ultimately about requiring transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual textbooks, instruction, and school activities – because not promoting these sexual lifestyles would "reflect adversely" on them:
"No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that reflects adversely upon persons because of their race or ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion." -- SB 1437 Sec. 1.
Contrast this to the current Education Code, which doesn’t require textbooks to promote "gender" (transsexuality and transvestitism) or "sexual orientation" (bisexuality and homosexuality):
“No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school sponsor any activity which reflects adversely upon persons because of their race, sex, color, creed, handicap, national origin, or ancestry." -- CA Education Code Sec. 51500.
A close before-and-after examination shows that the only substantial change in the Education Code is the addition of "gender" and "sexual orientation." After all, "ethnicity" equals "race"; "nationality" equals "color" and "national origin or ancestry"; "religion" equals "creed"; and "disability" is merely another word for "handicap."
Clearly, SB 1437’s changes existing law by inserting transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual language. By forbidding schools from adopting educational material that "reflects adversely" on these sexual lifestyles, SB 1437 mandates these sexual lifestyles be taught and promoted to impressionable schoolchildren.
2. SB 1437 will require textbooks to promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality to schoolchildren.
To fully understand the impact of SB 1437 on your local neighborhood school, you must realize that, for the first time, state law places "gender" and "sexual orientation" into school textbooks. SB 1437 says:
"No textbook or other instructional materials shall be adopted by the state board or by any governing board for use in the public schools that contains any matter reflecting adversely upon persons because of their race or ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion, as those terms are defined in Section 422.56 of the Penal Code." -- SB 1437, Sec. 2.
An examination of California Penal Code, Section 422.56, reveals a direct, spelled-out link: "Gender" includes transsexuality; "Sexual orientation" includes homosexuality and bisexuality:
For purposes of this title, the following definitions shall apply:
(c)"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.
(h)"Sexual orientation" means heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality. -- California Penal Code, Section 422.56.
The intent and effect of SB 1437 could not be clearer. By indirectly forcing curriculum changes, SB 1437 will result in every California public school teaching children to support transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual lifestyles.
3. SB 1437 prohibits schools from sponsoring traditional school activities.
SB 1437 specifically targets school-sponsored activities that currently make a distinction between "boy" and "girl", by stating:
"No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that reflects adversely upon persons because of their race or ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion, as those terms are defined in Section 422.56 of the Penal Code." -- SB 1437 Sec. 1.
As a result, several school activities will be deemed to "reflect adversely" on transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality:
• School proms (Prom "kings" and "queens" could not be gender-specific) • Gender-specific sports ("Boys Basketball" would be "discriminatory" against transsexuals) • Cheerleading (Can you say "transsexual cheerleaders"?)
4. SB 1437 prohibits public schools from teaching there is a natural family -- a father, a mother, and their children.
Just as it attacks school-sponsored activities, SB 1437 also assaults school curriculum on the basis of sex-related discrimination, asserting:
"No textbook or other instructional materials shall be adopted by the state board or by any governing board for use in the public schools that contains any matter reflecting adversely upon persons because of their race or ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion, as those terms are defined in Section 422.56 of the Penal Code." -- SB 1437 Sec. 2.
The California Education Code defines “instructional materials” as:
"'Instructional materials'" means all materials that are designed for use by pupils and their teachers as a learning resource and help pupils to acquire facts, skills, or opinions or to develop cognitive processes. Instructional materials may be printed or nonprinted, and may include textbooks, technology-based materials, other educational materials, and tests." -- California Education Code, Section 60010(h).
In short, instructional materials can be anything, including guest speakers, informational handouts, and other curriculum talking about and promoting transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality. Under SB 1437, non-discriminatory instructional materials related to "gender" and "sexual orientation" would include:
• Sex-change handouts (Omitting sex-change material in sex education class would "reflect adversely")• Transvestite speakers (Limiting classroom speakers to biologically-born men and biologically-born women would "reflect adversely")• Transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual videos (Showing videos depicting the traditional family or man-woman relationships would "reflect adversely")
If you don’t think the liberal California Department of Education will enforce SB 1437, think again. Because parental units are gender-specific, married couples or a family with a "father and a mother" would be portrayed as mere stereotypes – outdated ideas – and could be prohibited from textbooks because their discriminatory inclusion "reflects adversely." Under SB 1437, school curriculum in every public school throughout California, in every grade K-12, would have to portray transsexual and bisexual "parents" as normal. SB 1437 would teach schoolchildren that there is no such thing as the natural family.
VOICE YOUR OPPOSITION: Now that you understand exactly how SB 1437, disguised as an anti-discrimination bill, would sexually indoctinate impressionable schoolchildren and trample local school district control, make your voice heard now. Go to CCF's Action Center and do your part to oppose this bill. Act now!
ORIGINAL ANALYSIS OF SB 1437 -- SPRING 2006
1. SB 1437 will force all California public schools to promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality to schoolchildren as young as kindergarten.
SB 1437 is a sexual-agenda bomb dressed up as a child-caring Easter egg. Lesbian legislators such as the bill’s author, Sheila James Kuehl, a Santa Monica Democrat, would have you believe that SB 1437 merely updates school anti-discrimination policies. To that end, the bill incorporates the explosive terms “gender” (which includes transsexuality and transvestitism) and “sexual orientation” (meaning bisexuality and homosexuality) in a long list of anti-discrimination clauses.
But the bill is ultimately about requiring transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual textbooks, instruction, and school activities – because not promoting these sexual lifestyles would “reflect adversely” on them:
“No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that reflects adversely upon persons because of their race or ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion.” -- SB 1437 Sec. 1.
Contrast this to the current Education Code, which doesn’t require textbooks to promote “gender” (transsexuality and transvestitism) or “sexual orientation” (bisexuality and homosexuality):
“No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school sponsor any activity which reflects adversely upon persons because of their race, sex, color, creed, handicap, national origin, or ancestry.” -- CA Education Code Sec. 51500.
A close before-and-after examination shows that the only substantial change in the Education Code is the addition of “gender” and “sexual orientation.” After all, “ethnicity” equals “race”; “nationality” equals “color” and “national origin or ancestry”; “religion” equals “creed”; and “disability” is merely another word for “handicap.” Clearly, SB 1437’s changes existing law by inserting transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual language. By forbidding schools from adopting educational material that “reflects adversely” on these sexual lifestyles, SB 1437 mandates these sexual lifestyles be taught and promoted to impressionable schoolchildren.
2. SB 1437 will require textbooks to promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality to schoolchildren.
To fully understand the impact of SB 1437 on your local neighborhood school, you must realize that, for the first time, state law places “gender” and “sexual orientation” into school textbooks. SB 1437 says:
“No textbook or other instructional materials shall be adopted by the state board or by any governing board for use in the public schools that contains any matter reflecting adversely upon persons because of their race or ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion, as those terms are defined in Section 422.56 of the Penal Code.” -- SB 1437, Sec. 3.
An examination of California Penal Code, Section 422.56, reveals a direct, spelled-out link: “Gender” includes transsexuality; “Sexual orientation” includes homosexuality and bisexuality:
“For purposes of this title, the following definitions shall apply:
(c)"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.
(h)"Sexual orientation" means heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality.” -- California Penal Code, Section 422.56.
It could not be more clear. Undoubtedly, SB 1437 is written to deceive, while its impact is to indoctrinate. Quite simply, SB 1437 will turn public schools into anti-family, sexual indoctrination centers. This bill must not be allowed to become a reality in California.
3. SB 1437 prohibits schools from sponsoring traditional school activities.
SB 1437 specifically targets school-sponsored activities that currently make a distinction between “boy” and “girl”, by stating:
"No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that reflects adversely upon persons because of their race or ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion, as those terms are defined in Section 422.56 of the Penal Code.” -- SB 1437 Sec. 1.
As a result, several school activities will be deemed to “reflect adversely” on transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality:
School proms (Prom “kings” and “queens” could not be gender-specific)
Gender-specific sports (“Boys Basketball” would be “discriminatory” against transsexuals)
Cheerleading (Can you say “transsexual cheerleaders”?)
4. SB 1437 prohibits public schools from teaching there is a natural family -- a father, a mother, and their children.
Just as it attacks school-sponsored activities, SB 1437 also assaults school curriculum on the basis of sex-related discrimination, asserting:
“No textbook or other instructional materials shall be adopted by the state board or by any governing board for use in the public schools that contains any matter reflecting adversely upon persons because of their race or ethnicity, gender, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, or religion, as those terms are defined in Section 422.56 of the Penal Code.” -- SB 1437 Sec. 3.
California Education Code defines “instructional materials” as:
"’Instructional materials’" means all materials that are designed for use by pupils and their teachers as a learning resource and help pupils to acquire facts, skills, or opinions or to develop cognitive processes. Instructional materials may be printed or nonprinted, and may include textbooks, technology-based materials, other educational materials, and tests.” -- California Education Code, Section 60010(h).
In short, instructional materials can be anything, including guest speakers, informational handouts, and other curriculum talking about and promoting transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality. Under SB 1437, non-discriminatory instructional materials related to “gender” and “sexual orientation” would include:
Sex-change handouts (Omitting sex-change material in sex education class would ”reflect adversely”)
Transvestite speakers (Limiting classroom speakers to biologically-born men and biologically-born women would “reflect adversely”)
Transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual videos (Showing videos depicting the traditional family or man-woman relationships would "reflect adversely")
If you don’t think the liberal California Department of Education will enforce SB 1437, think again. Because parental units are gender-specific, married couples or a family with a “father and a mother” would be portrayed as mere stereotypes – outdated ideas – and could be prohibited from textbooks because their discriminatory inclusion “reflects adversely.” Under SB 1437, school curriculum in every public school throughout California, in every grade K-12, would have to portray transsexual and bisexual “parents” as normal. SB 1437 would teach schoolchildren that there is no such thing as the natural family.
If AB 606 seeks to tell school districts what pro-trans-bi-homosexual textbooks they must use, SB 1437 is even more specific as it dictates what California schools may not use (anything “reflecting adversely” on transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality). These bad bills will brainwash schoolchildren into accepting and experimenting with transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality.
5. The March 28 amendments to SB 1437 openly REQUIRE that California public schools teach children to accept and embrace transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality.
In the March 28 amended version of the bill, the author strengthens the damage her bill would do to impressionable schoolchildren. Not content with prohibiting curriculum from “reflecting adversely” on any sexual behavior, Senator Sheila Kuehl now openly and specifically requires positive portrayals of transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual lifestyles in ALL curriculum, for children as young as kindergarten.
SB 1437 places the following bolded language into Education Code Section 51204.5:
“Instruction in social sciences shall include the early history of California and an age-appropriate study of the role and contributions of both men and women, black Americans, American Indians, Mexicans, Asians, Pacific Island people, and other ethnic groups, and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America, with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society.”
Clearly, these new, sexually-charged words mean history and other social science classes would be mandated to teach schoolchildren that they should accept, and perhaps embrace for themselves, all types of sexual lifestyles -- specifically, transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality.
Then, extending beyond social science classes, SB 1437 mandates that transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual lifestyles must be included in ALL textbooks and instructional materials at ALL public schools. SB 1437 does this by placing the following bolded language into Education Code Section 60040:
“When adopting instructional materials for use in the schools, governing boards shall include only instructional materials which, in their determination, accurately portray the cultural, racial, gender, and sexual diversity of our society, including:
(a)The contributions of both men and women in all types of roles, including professional, vocational, and executive roles.
(b)The role and contributions of Native Americans, AfricanAmericans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, European Americans, and members of other ethnic and cultural groups to the total development of California and the United States.
(c)The contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender to the total development of California and the United States.
(d)The role and contributions of the entrepreneur and labor in the total development of California and the United States."
By requiring everything in California public schools to accept, embrace, teach, and promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, SB 1437 penetrates the academic purpose of schools with sexual, social engineering targeting children as young as kindergarten.
6. The May 1 amendments regarding “age-appropriate” are a deceptive attempt to argue that SB 1437 won’t sexually indoctrinate young children.
In a weak attempt to claim that SB 1437 will not affect impressionable schoolchildren as young as kindergarten, the bill’s author, Senator Sheila James Kuehl, inserted the words “age-appropriate”:
“Instruction in social sciences shall include the early history of California and an age-appropriate study of the role and contributions of both men and women, black Americans, American Indians, Mexicans, Asians, Pacific Island people, and other ethnic groups, and people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America, with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society.”-- SB 1437, Sec. 1.
But what is and who determines what is “age-appropriate?” Nowhere in SB 1437 is this term defined. It’s clear that local schools and parents will NOT be able to decide that teaching children about transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality is inappropriate. Therefore, the sexual information regarding transsexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality is not limited. For example, this year a Massachusetts teacher read her second-grade class a book celebrating same-sex “marriages,” apparently because she believed it “age-appropriate.” This undefined phrase is essentially meaningless. What we do know is the sexual indoctrination of SB 1437 will reach children as young as kindergarten. Even the Senate Education Committee’s official analysis acknowledges that children in 1st grade will be affected:
“Under the state Constitution, and statutory law, the State Board of Education adopts instructional materials to be used in grades 1 through 8 and local governing boards adopt materials for grades 9 through 12.” -- Senate Education Committee, SB 1437 Analysis.
The additional fact that SB 1437 adopts broad, fully-encompassing terms such as “all” or “any” and “shall” to describe the scope of its mandate, proves that, whatever its supporters claim, SB 1437 will undeniably affect our youngest schoolchildren.
CONCLUSION
There’s no mistaking that the California Department of Education will use SB 1437 to erase all traditional distinctions of gender or sexual standards. Those who doubt the ultimate impact of this bill, thinking “It isn’t that bad,” proves how the trans-bi-homosexual movement is already establishing a foothold against the traditional family.
Above analyses from:Save California/ Get Active!
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