Important Update
SB 1437, School Sexual Indoctrination Bill
Pulled Back From Senate Floor
April 27, 2006
SB 1437, the legislation that would mandate the indoctrination of California school children with material that is exclusively pro-homosexual, pro-bisexual and pro-transgender has been pulled back from Senate floor consideration and referred to the Senate Education Committee. The committee will hold hearings on the bill on May 3rd.
If SB 1437 passes the committee, it will likely be voted on by the full Senate within the following few weeks.
Senate offices report that they are being deluged with e-mails, phone calls and letters from Californians on this bill, with a slight majority of these communications opposing it.
WE ARE MAKING A DIFFERENCE BUT WE CANNOT LET UP NOW!
Please pass this update on to others who might be willing to go to the special feature on our Web site that allows them to e-mail all California senators in opposition to SB 1437 with just a click of their mouse.
Also, please consider making a tax deductible contribution to help us keep up the pressure on the Senate opposing this bill. You can do this easily and securely on line through our Web site. On this same page you can also print out a page to mail in a contribution if you prefer. For the next two weeks, all contributions made through our Web site will be used exclusively to support our efforts to kill SB 1437.
Thanks for whatever you can do to help.
Vote on SB 1437 is Delayed Again!
April 20, 2006
Today the Senate again postponed a vote on SB 1437, the bill that would mandate homosexuality and gender confusion indoctrination in our public schools. The next time the Senate could consider the bill will be on Monday, April 24th.
If you have not yet contacted our senators, or encouraged others you know to do so, there is still time! As a result of the efforts of United Families California thousands of Californians are letting our senators know in no uncertain terms that they OPPOSE this attempt to subvert our children’s education and turn our public schools into instruments to indoctrinate our children on homosexuality, lesbianism, bi-sexuality and transgenderism.
You can easily send an e-mail to our senators by clicking here. It takes just a few minutes. You can also use a special feature on our site to e-mail others on your list with a suggested message encouraging them to also contact our senators. Either action takes just a few minutes.
Remember that every adult should send a separate e-mail. If your spouse, adult children or others you know have not contacted our senators personally, PLEASE ENCOURAGE THEM TO DO SO!
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and you ARE making a difference!
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this critical issue.
Bulletin! Vote on SB 1437 Delayed!
April 17, 2006
The floor vote has been postponed on SB 1437, the bill before the California Senate that would require sexual indoctrination and promote gender confusion in our public schools by mainstreaming homosexuality, bi-sexuality and transgenderism in all coursework and reading materials. It now appears that this vote could come on Thursday, April 20th.
Now is the time to keep the pressure on!
We had to send out the original alert (below) over this past busy holiday (and tax filing deadline!) weekend and we know that many people probably have not had a chance to respond or to forward it on.
If you have not yet sent an e-mail to our senators opposing SB 1437 and the other two bad bills listed in the alert, PLEASE DO SO RIGHT NOW BY CLICKING HERE! It takes just a few minutes.
Also, if you have not forwarded our last alert on to others because you thought there was not enough time before the vote, PLEASE FORWARD THIS ALERT ON NOW! We have also set up a special feature on our Web site where you can send a suggested message about what is at stake here on to others. It is easy and also takes just a few minutes. CLICK HERE.
`If it passes, this bill will do great harm to our school children. It is essential that we stop it!
IF YOU ARE AMONG THE HUNDREDS AND HUNDREDS WHO HAVE SENT THESE E-MAILS TO OUR SENATORS AND FORWARDED THESE ALERTS ON TO OTHERS, THANK YOU!
You are making a difference!
Extremely Urgent!
April 15, 2006
SB 1437 to be voted on the Senate Floor this Monday, April 17th!
This bill will mainstream homosexuality and alternative sexual orientations and lifestyles in our public schools, turning them into institutions of that will engage in sexual indoctrination rather than education.
See the summary below for more details.
(A recent change to this bill would require children to study the contributions of homosexuals to society. Just as today they learn about the positive contributions of both men and women, African Americans, Mexicans and other cultural and ethnic groups, if SB 1437 passes our school children would learn the positive contributions "people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender" have made to California and the United States. School lessons would no longer be the same!)
If you haven't emailed our senators yet, PLEASE DO SO NOW!!
Click here to email our senators.
Following the steps below, it takes just a few minutes and a click of your mouse to send the suggested message opposing SB 1437 and the other two bad bills. A summary of these other bills is also included.
If you have not forwarded the original alert on to others and encouraged them to also e-mail our senators, PLEASE DO SO NOW!
Perhaps you have noticed the trend for bills concerning values issues. These bills are put on the legislative floor for a vote immediately after family holidays to catch the public unawares!
Help Stop Sexual Indoctrination in Our Schools!
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Thank you for standing up for values!
April 6, 2006
Urgent Alert!
SB 1437 Passes Senate Judiciary Committee!!
Help Stop Value Confusion and Sexual Indoctrination
In our Public Schools NOW!
Action Urged
Send
an e-mail immediately to all California state senators urging them to
oppose SB 1437, and two equally alarming bills now in the Senate. All
of these bills would effectively mandate and mainstream a homosexual focus
in our school curriculum and create gender confusion among many public
school students. You can easily send a suggested e-mail to all
state senators with just the click of your mouse through the special feature
set up on our Web
site. It takes just two minutes.
Brief Background
On Tuesday, April 4, SB 1437 passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee. It is one of three very shocking bills (the other two are AB 606 and AB 1056, both of which have already passed the Assembly) that are making their way though the California Legislature. For the first time, these bills will require by law that, among other things, our children's class work and curriculum must present homosexuality as normal and equal to heterosexuality and teach them that gender is not physically-determined but is merely a "social construct" that an individual can change at will. A summary of these three bills is provided below.
While there is clearly a vigorous debate occurring in our society on these and related issues, these bills would prohibit that debate from even being part of our children's education. Instead, if these bills pass, those individuals and interest groups that advocate these radical sexual orientations and minority views on norms and values will have free reign to push their social and sexual agenda unchallenged in our schools. This will directly undermine the traditional values and norms held by the majority in our society, norms and values which many parents are seeking to instill in their children.
The result will be the our schools will be converted into institutions of sexual indoctrination of our children, not educational institutions. It is completely inappropriate for our legislature to pass legislation like this that presents only these radical and minority views and imposes this sexual indoctrination on our children.
Our children are not orphans or wards of the state. We, as parents, must be the ones decide what their social and sexual education should be. In addition, by substituting indoctrination for education, these bills will mandate by law that the schools must totally ignore the findings of the social and medical sciences. For example, we know from this research that being raised by both a father and a mother is essential to the best interests of children. We know that homosexual behavior is highly risky and results in a shorter average life expectancy. Yet, if these bills pass, schools would essentially be prohibited from presenting well documented research and other factual information like this.
Please contact our state senators and let them know that parents count, that our values count and that it is not the role of the schools to indoctrinate students on these controversial issues or impose the norms and values of social minorities.
We are all in this together and I can guarantee that unless enough of us take action these bills will become law. It is up to us to protect our children from those in the legislature and others in our society who would force their agenda on our children.
These bills pose very serious threats. Please contact your senators today!! Also, please forward this alert on to your friends, family and others here in California and urge them to help us stop these potentially damaging laws.
Thank you for whatever you can do to help!
Sincerely,
Meredith Richey
President, United Families California
P.S. Please make as generous a contribution as you can to help us in this effort. You can do this safely and securely on line or print out a form to mail in your contribution here. Your contributions are tax-deductible.
Thanks for whatever you can do to help!
Brief Summary and Analysis of the Bills
SB 1437 - Changes the State Education code "relating to prohibited instruction" and adds a radical sexual orientation indoctrination program
This bill would prohibit schools from doing anything that can in any way be considered as adversely reflecting on any individual based on their perceived "gender" or "sexual orientation." Included would be any curriculum, text books or school sponsored activities. The term "gender" is defined as "real or perceived" and "sexual orientation" is not well defined. As a result, the schools would be forced to teach school children that all forms of sexual behavior are normal and acceptable, that gender is not important in raising children, that all forms of "family" are equal and that gender is not physically defined but merely a "social construct." This will not only undermine the prevailing norms and values of society generally but also the values and religious teaching many parents are attempting to instill in their children.
Status: Passed the Senate Judiciary committee April 4th and is headed for the Senate Floor. Text of the bill here.
AB 606 - Forces school districts to include curriculum, textbooks or other materials that accept, embrace and advocate homosexuality or risk losing state money.
This bill would require local school districts to develop, implement and enforce a policy that prohibits any type of discrimination or harassment against any individual based on an individuals "actual or perceived gender identity" or their sexual orientation. The determination of how well schools are following the law is left to the total discretion of the State Superintendent of Schools who can withhold all or part of a school district's state funding if he does not believe they are in compliance with the law. The bill will also require that all school children are given material depicting homosexuality as normal. The requirements are so broad and the compliance is so subjective that this law will inevitably lead to indoctrination of all California school children that there is no difference between the sexes and that any sexual behavior is equally normal and acceptable, directly undermining the norms and values of society and many parents.
Status: Passed the Assembly and in the Senate Committee. Text of the bill here.
AB 1056 - $250,000 of state money will be directed to "Tolerance Education" pilot programs in Science/Social Science classes, while adding "sexual orientation and "perceived characteristics" to the tolerance list.
This bill, which has already passed the Assembly, would establish a pilot program in California schools to "supplement instruction" with "tolerance education." While United Families California believes in treating all with kindness and tolerance, in this approach, tolerance is reduced to unquestioningly accepting virtually any characteristic or behavior of any individual. Values are thrown to the wind. In doing so, it undermines many of the traditional teachings that society and parents are attempting to instill in children and discourages critical thinking and decision making.
Status: Passed the Assembly and in the Senate Committee. Text of the bill here.
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