California Lawmaker Blasts State Assembly's Supporting Homosexual Agenda
by Mary Rettig
August 16, 2006
(AgapePress) - - A conservative in the California Assembly says Democratic lawmakers put state business on hold this past Monday to celebrate the homosexual lifestyle. However, when it comes to celebrating patriotic or pro-family values, he claims the Golden State has a real problem.
Republican State Assemblyman Jay La Seur says his Democratic colleagues planned and then used their majority rule Monday to force the Assembly to suspend the rules and hold an "LGBT Pride Award Ceremony." The ceremony, which recognized several different homosexual activists and their achievements, was approved by the Assembly's Democrat majority in a vote of 40-25, with the votes following party lines.
California, La Seur contends, is a "kooky" state where it is rare to see anything that is pro-America or pro-family recognized. For instance, he notes, "We were going to have a Fourth of July celebration last year, and that was canceled because they didn't really care for the speaker we were going to have. We were not allowed, after being promised we could do it."
The scheduled speaker was Jeremiah Denton, the Assemblyman explains -- a military veteran known to many admirers as "the longest prisoner of war at the Hanoi Hilton" as well as a former U.S. senator. Denton, a recipient of the Navy Cross, spent eight years as a P.O.W. in Hanoi and was decorated after his release for courageous resistance under torture and other severe conditions at the hands of the enemy. He later ran as a Republican senatorial candidate from his home state of Alabama and won, becoming the first and only retired Navy admiral to be elected to the Senate.
However, liberal California legislators found Denton "too controversial," La Seur says. "We were also going to honor the World War veterans, the Tuskegee Airmen, and the Pearl Harbor survivors," he notes, "and they said it was too militaristic."
The conservative California lawmaker says his Democratic colleagues in the Assembly are willing to waste state time to support the homosexual agenda, but apparently they do not care about supporting their own country and servicemen. He says he does not understand why the LGBT Pride Award ceremony had to take place on state time, when some positive pro-American and pro-family events are not allowed to take place at all.
The California Assembly, under its liberal leadership, refuses to stand for things that are wholesome and right, La Seur contends. Yet, he adds, the state legislature cheerfully wastes taxpayers' money to celebrate "gay pride," meanwhile holding up more than 1,000 pieces of legislation with only two weeks left in the session.
Mary Rettig, a regular contributor to AgapePress, is a reporter for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
