Pro-Homosexual Legislation Nearing Approval in Golden State

by Allie Martin and Jody Brown
August 21, 2006

(AgapePress) - - California lawmakers could vote today on a bill that, if approved, would force all public school teachers to give a biased message about homosexuality to students as young as five years old. Pro-family activists in the Golden State are being encouraged to voice their opposition to the measure, one of two pro-homosexual education bills that have been working their way through the legislative process in Sacramento.

Under SB 1437, all instructional materials, school-sponsored activities, and textbooks would be required to portray cross-dressing, sex-change operations, and homosexuality and bisexuality in a positive manner. In short, it would forbid public schools from teaching anything that portrays homosexuals in a negative light.

Randy Thomasson with the Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) says the bill is another step in the effort by homosexual activists and their supporters to infiltrate public schools. "We don't need sexual indoctrination centers," he says in reference to schools under the legislation, should it become law. "We need real schools that teach real academics and leave this values stuff to parents to teach at home."

Another bill, SB 1441, is already on Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's desk. It would forbid recipients of government funding from portraying homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality in a negative light. According to Thomasson, this measure would create conflict between church and state because it would require faith-based organizations -- should they wish to remain eligible for certain funds -- to contradict deeply held beliefs. The CCF leader recalls one state legislator who supports SB 1441 as saying religious institutions would have to "work that out."

Thomasson claims that puts such institutions in a tough spot. "[T]here's no way to 'work that out' except by religious colleges abandoning their biblical standards on sexuality," he states. "We call upon Governor Schwarzenegger to veto SB 1441 to keep the big nose of government out of religion ... [to] veto this religion-squashing bill."

For either or both bills to have any chance of being vetoes, Thomasson says state lawmakers must hear from concerned Christians. "Sitting on the sidelines is being part of the problem," he says, clearly implying that too many believers have been silent as the bills were being debated and considered. "You actually have to pick up the phone and make a difference."

And lest those outside the Golden State think their states are immune from the influence of the outcome of these bills, Thomasson issues a solemn warning: "As California goes, so goes the nation -- so don't think this doesn't affect you."