California's Passage of Pro-Homosexual Bills Draws Pro-Family Backlash
by Bill Fancher and Allie Martin
September 5, 2006
(AgapePress) - - In California, a series of pro-homosexual education bills passed by the State Assembly has spawned a campaign there to get children out of the public school system. The campaign, dubbed "Heck No! Our Kids Won't Go!" was initiated by a group called "Considering Homeschooling."
Charles Lowers, director of Considering Homeschooling, says it is time for upset parents to take action. That is why he says his group is using California lawmakers' recent passage of this series of pro-homosexual bills as "a wake-up call for Christian families who, despite everything else that has happened, are still sending their children to public school."
Lowers says these bills promote the deadly homosexual lifestyle while forbidding any criticism of it, even biblical teachings that call homosexual sex an abomination to God, abnormal, and unnatural. He insists that the California education system and the State Assembly are now under the control of radical homosexual activists, and that parents need to do something other than let these people indoctrinate their children with a pro-homosexual message.
As an Associated Press report notes, Christian parents are being urged to remove their children from public schools despite the fact that the academic year has already begun. Considering Homeschooling's director warns these mothers and fathers that "the very soul of your child is at risk," especially when the vast majority of Christian children who attend public schools lose their faith.
Lowers and other home-education proponents are exhorting parents not to forego their God-given responsibility to raise their children according to biblical values, delegating that responsibility instead to godless schools with increasingly anti-Christian curricula. The message is simple, the Considering Homeschooling spokesman contends: "We're really saying to Christian parents, 'Knowing what you know now, how can you in good conscience send your children off eight hours a day to be discipled by humanists in the public school system?"
Meanwhile, the president of a California pro-family group is urging Christian voters to remember, particularly when they go to the polls in November, what he and many other conservatives see as a betrayal by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Last week, the California governor signed SB 1441, a bill that forces Christian colleges receiving state aid to affirm homosexuality.
Schwarzenegger was blasted for the move by conservative Christian and pro-family groups such as the Campaign for Children and Families (CCF) and its president, Randy Thomasson. Urging Christian voters not to forget this anti-family action by the state's chief executive official, Thomasson declares, "Governor Schwarzenegger wants to be re-elected on November 7. He is assuming the Christian community will support him. He is assuming incorrectly."
Christians should always vote their values, the CCF president asserts. "The church needs to stand up and say, 'Look. This is a standard that is biblical, that we're going to vote on,'" he remarks, "and that there's a standard that is biblical that we're going to stand on. We're not going to compromise and go down under that standard."
Also, Thomasson points out, several more pro-homosexual bills are headed to Schwarzenegger's desk in the future. He is hoping values voters will not only let the governor know how they feel about these measures but that they will also watch closely to see whether the Republican governor once again betrays pro-family conservatives.
Schwarzenegger faces Democratic state treasurer Phil Angelides in November. Thomasson feels sure the recent decision by the governor to sign legislation forcing schools and other institutions receiving public money to affirm homosexuality will be a factor in the upcoming election.
Bill Fancher and Allie Martin, regulars contributors to AgapePress, are reporters for American Family Radio News, which can be heard online.
