"There is no gay gene, but religious freedom is a God-given right enshrined in the U.S. Constitution. So it's wrong and unfair to create new laws which make homosexual-bisexual-transsexual 'rights' superior to everyone else's rights," said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, a leading West Coast family issues organization.

"The words 'discrimination,' 'harassment,' and 'tolerance' have been redefined and are actually resulting in reverse discrimination and intolerance against people with moral values," said Thomasson. "Under these new laws, foster parents, nurses, doctors, health insurance plans, city and county commissions, and court-appointed children's advocates must abandon their moral, social or financial values at the alter of the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda. This crate load of homosexual-bisexual-transsexual laws embodies the same intolerant spirit of the recent California Supreme Court ruling that trampled the religious freedom of doctors at the behest of homosexual 'rights.'" 

Among the "LGBT" bills signed by Arnold Schwarzenegger, after being approved by the Democrat-controlled Legislature, are:

• AB 3015 forces foster parents to train foster children to support homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality. The 2000 law upon which AB 3015 is based resulted in homosexual, bisexual and transsexual activism on school campuses from "LGBT" students and teachers. AB 3015 will do the same for foster children, many of whom have already been emotionally damaged by sexual abuse and neglect.

Under the new law, morally-minded foster parents will be trained to teach children in their homes what they themselves believe is a lie. In addition, the bill author says AB 3015 will "ensure that foster youth and their caregivers are knowledgeable about how to report" foster parents and public school teachers who cannot and will not support homosexuality, bisexuality or transsexuality. In other words, under AB 3015, positive and healthy pro-family values on sexual behavior and believing in natural gender can be reported as "harassment."

AB 3015 is based on a 2000 law (AB 537), which, according to the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, broadly and subjectively defines harassment as "conduct based on protected status that is severe or pervasive, which unreasonably disrupts an individual's educational or work environment or that creates a hostile educational or work environment." Therefore, under AB 3015, foster parents who don't allow homosexual, bisexual or transsexual sexual behavior in their own homes, and foster parents and public school teachers who speak against or have values that are perceived to be against homosexuality, bisexuality or transsexuality can be reported to the government to be disciplined or penalized. "The intolerant spirit of AB 3015 essentially means if you have traditional family values, you either need to shut up or stop being a teacher or a foster parent altogether," said Thomasson.

AB 3015 was preceded in 2003 by AB 458, which set the stage for AB 3015 by requiring existing and prospective foster parents to be trained to support homosexual-bisexual-transsexual "rights." AB 3015 passed the California Legislature with Democrats in support, Republicans opposed.
 
• SB 1729 mandates that nurses be trained to support homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality, despite their deeply-held moral values to the contrary. According to the final Senate floor analysis, SB 1729 "requires all registered nurses, certified nurse assistants, licensed vocational nurses, and physicians working in skilled nursing facilities or congregate living health facilities to participate in a training program focused on preventing and eliminating discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity." In other words, good professional nurses at convalescent homes and assisted-living centers could be disciplined or fired for not attending or not actively participating in these homosexual-bisexual-transsexual training classes, or if on the job they ever speak against homosexuality, bisexuality or transsexuality. SB 1729 passed the California Legislature with Democrats in support, Republicans opposed.

• AB 2654 elevates homosexual-bisexual-transsexual "rights" above moral, religious and family values in the private insurance field and government processes. AB 2654 is one of a package of five bills passed in the last five years by Democrat legislators and signed by Schwarzenegger that applies broad definitions of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality to all other areas of the law. For example, in Government Code, Section 12926.1, "sexual orientation" is defined as including not just homosexuality but also bisexuality, and, because of Penal Code, Section 422.56, defines "sex" and "gender" as including "a person's gender identity and gender related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth." As the Democratic Senate floor analysis of AB 2654 disclosed, "In doing so, this bill expands the protected classes in some statutes to encompass those recently added" [i.e. "sexual orientation" and "gender"]. This means AB 2654 essentially completes the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual takeover of government entities and imposes its sexual agenda more fully upon the private sector. AB 2654 passed the California Legislature with Democrats in support, Republicans opposed.

"AB 2654 imposes homosexual-bisexual-transsexual values upon insurance companies, health insurance plans, children's court-appointed representatives, and city and county commissions," said Thomasson. "By misusing the word 'discrimination,' AB 2654 essentially requires these entities to equate homosexual parents with the natural family, equate homosexual 'marriage' with real marriage, and regard homosexual, bisexual and transsexual behavior as good and natural. Especially alarming is how AB 2654 requires HMOs to support homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality at the same rate as much healthier lifestyles, thus raising the eventual cost of insurance for everyone else."

Homosexual Assemblyman John Laird, a Santa Cruz Democrat, has imposed the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda in a multi-year package of bills, completed by AB 2654. His intolerant package of five bills requiring Californians to support homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality includes AB 14 in 2007, AB 2800 in 2006, AB 1400 in 2005, and AB 2900 in 2004. All five of these "LGBT" bills were passed by the Democrat-controlled Legislature and signed by Governor Schwarzenegger.

On Sept. 30, 2008, when the Governor issued his veto of AB 2567, which would have created an official "gay day" in public schools, it did not comfort parents and grandparents who are already deeply concerned about the school sexual indoctrination laws (SB 777 and AB 394) approved last year by Schwarzenegger and the Democrat-controlled California Legislature. The effect of these new laws is to positively promote homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality in all public school instructional materials, activities and programs.

"Does California's government school system promote the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda to children? Yes, because that's the effect of new laws that are steadily changing government schools into hotbeds of sexual indoctrination," said Thomasson. "Parents and grandparents who desire to protect the sexual innocence of their children and grandchildren must seek the sanctuary of home schools and church schools. Visit RescueYourChild.org for information on these safe education alternatives."

CAMPAIGN FOR CHILDREN AND FAMILIES is a leading West Coast nonprofit, nonpartisan organization standing for marriage and family, parental rights, the sanctity of human life, religious freedom, financial freedom, and back-to-basics education.

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Posted by Tony, on 04-05-2009 01:35, The end is near.Wake up people!Everything the Bible says is coming true,down to the last little details,and homosexuals are just a part of the prophesy it tells us about.Be saved by the Blood of the Lamb,Jesus Christ our Savior shed His Blood for ALL sinners!That includes YOU!!!You too can receive eternal life,just pray to Jesus and ask Him to forgive you of your sins and MEAN it from the heart.You don't think God created you?So I guess you think you came from a monkey?Get real,there IS a higher being that made us in His own image,and He loves us.Just love Him back and He will bless you and save you from eternal damnation.I will pray for all of you,you need it.God Bless You All !!!   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Erica Rose, on 20-04-2009 23:50, Hmmm...     "God said it, I believe it, and that's good enough for me..."    "We believe that the Bible is the absolute, inerrant Word of God"    "We're God Fearin' Bible believin' Christian folk heah..."    If all this is true to you, and the Bible speaks of killing folk who are gay, bi, lesbian or transgendered, as in Leviticus, it would stand to reason that you, as Christians, seriously, deep down inside, believe that we should be put to death.    That being said, as much as I wish I could take Christians at their word when they speak of not wanting to impose "Sharia" law, or a Taliban style regime... I cannot. Somehow I honestly cannot help but feel that you all really do, but fear the social stigma of admitting it publicly.    During WW2, the Finns welcomed German troops, sided with the Axis, only because they feared the Soviets more. So I side with the liberal camp, because the religious right frightens me more.     Erica Rose   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... » See all 1 replie(s) Posted by Ken, on 18-03-2009 23:54, Everyone who does evil hates the light, and will not come into the light for fear that his deeds will be exposed.   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Kathy, on 29-10-2008 08:09, Say - guess what? There IS a genetic basis for transsexuality.    Deborah Smith  October 27, 2008    In the largest ever genetic study of transsexuals, Australian researchers have discovered a DNA variation linked to male-to-female transsexualism.    The finding strengthens the view that there is a biological reason why some people feel they are living in the wrong body.    Vincent Harley, of Prince Henry's Institute in Melbourne, said his team's study of 112 Australian and American male-to-female transsexuals found they were more likely to have a genetic variation in a gene that could lead to a feminisation of the brain during early development.    The research confirmed that transsexuality was not a lifestyle decision, as some had suggested, said another team member, Trudy Kennedy, the director of the Monash Gender Dysphoria Clinic in Melbourne.    Still no gene found for religiousity - guess religion shouldn't be covered in nondiscrimination legislation by the authors standards.   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Dee, on 27-10-2008 00:52, You have no right to impose your religious dogma on others. Keep it in your churches and your homes and in your closets but keep it quiet.    I'm sick and tired of the bigotry and hatred you people spew. Not to mention the hypocrisy.    I'm sick and tired of the theocracy you people have created here. If you like that sort of thing, go move to the middle east where they embrace that sort of thing.     Your "god" is false and does not exist. Never did. Your bible is a handbook of hatred and discrimination and exclusion.     And FYI, I am transsexual and FYI, they have found a gene that is responsible. One isn't transsexual because they want to be, they are because they are.    I believe in freedom FROM religion.  I am an avowed Atheist. Though I may convert to Witchcraft just to give you people heartburn.. ;-)    Have a lovely life... Bigots.    » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Huh?, on 13-10-2008 14:20, Out of curiosity, what does your God do with interssexed people that actually do exist and are provable unlike religion? Since they are both male and female does that make them always straight or always gay? Diversity in nature exists, and so it exists it humans. Fact, not myth.   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... » See all 1 replie(s) Posted by Let me Explain, on 12-10-2008 04:16, Alen: I think you have misunderstood what Frustrated said and you clearly misunderstand Christianity. God hes never EVER condemned one person to Hell. Not one. Hell was created for Satan and his fallen angels. However, when mankind sinned, we could no longer be in the presence of God because He is Holy. His presence would anilhilate us. It's not God being cruel. It's just a law of nature. So we cannot enter Heaven while we are tainted with sin. However, we are still eternal beings. Therefore the only other place where we can go is Hell. That is why Jesus came and died; to save us from that. God isn't shoving us out of the life boat to drown becuase we won't play by His rules. We are already in the water drowning and God is in the life boat trying to save us. But he can't do that if we refuse to grab on to the only life saver He has. God did not create gay people. Being gay is a choice because it is literally impossible for it to be genetic. I shall reply to this b/c I have more to say.   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... » See all 2 replie(s) Posted by Jadey Jade Jade, on 09-10-2008 18:47, What is your problem....?  This isnt asking you to make a change of lifestyle or belief.  Its purely about allowing future generations to make their own decisions or even live life as they feel natural without the fear of hell in life and hell in death without christianity sticking its oar in.  You can still go to church and believe what you believe, you just cant preach hatred or wrongness of a few selected minorities to the impressionable.  People dont turn gay or transgender because its a cool thing to do and neither do they suddenly heal with the teachings of the bible (some may repress feelings due to it, but thats all). If most hardcore Christians were told that the bible was a wrong thing to believe in, how many of would stop worshipping ?    Get real, you can still believe Deuteronomy 22:5 etc, just not force it down the throats of the impressionable, that right has existed for far too many years already.   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Go Terminator!, on 09-10-2008 16:13, Change the Laws and let arny run for president!!   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Alan, on 09-10-2008 07:30, Frustrated: you are seemingly NOT accepting a person's right to be gay by denying them equal rights and by lecturing them on their impending eternity in hell just for acting on their God-given instincts while hurting no-one. (What kind of God is it anyway, who simultaneous creates tens of millions of gay people, then condemns them to eternal torture?! Even Hitler was mercifully quick in his mass genocide!) You are clearly oblivious to the hurt that your supposedly compassionate 'faith' has on your weary gay friends (note 'faith' not 'fact', whereas being gay is 'fact', not mythology). It is very, very selfish - as well as unconstitional - that you impose your mythologies on others. Gay are denied equal rights by you, just so you can feel righteous and comfortable. Ask ANY gay person and they'll say your brand of 'love' is actually making their lives hell on Earth, let alone what you claim your monstrous, cruel Creator has in store for them when they pass on!   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Frustrated, on 08-10-2008 18:43, Christians don't hate gay people! Anyone who hates someone isn't a Christian. PERIOD. Just because we say that a certain behavior is a sin doesn't mean we hate the people who do it. I don't hate gay people. I don't know any Christian who does. I have friends WHO ARE GAY. They know that I believe what they are doing is wrong and that I still love them. I tell them it is wrong BECAUSE I LOVE THEM. I believe that sin will send you to hell and I don't want that to happen to them. If desperately wanting to save someone from a horrible fate is being a *****, then fine I am the biggest ***** of them all. Christians don't want America to be under some Christian version of Sharia law. We just don't want people trying to force us to change what we believe. After all, we're not forcing anyone to change their beliefs. We might share what we believe, but we don't try to force our morality on anyone else. We accept that you have a right to be gay. But please don't try to make us change our religion   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by IanB, on 08-10-2008 12:54, The US is not Iran or Saudi Arabia, and Americans should not be subjected to the bibical equivalent of Sharia law. Our history is shamefully blighted by interpretations of the Bible that appear to endorse slavery, racism and the denigration of women. Now that society has (almost, but not quite) moved on from this, gay people have been placed in the firing line of righteous Christianists' hate campaigns (Who next? Immigrants? Muslims? Single parents?). I am convinced that the main reason for the advances in pro-gay legislation are not the efforts of gay people themselves, but ironically the US Christian Taliban whose hateful rhetoric toward gays has repulsed a huge segment of the US population into sympathizing with their gay children, neighbors, colleagues, doctors, aunts, friends... needless to say, some Christians will think such love of gays is the work of Satan, but those are the thoughts of a deluded mind which borders on insanity   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Read Romans 1 In the Bible, on 08-10-2008 11:06, It is ignorance and deceit for the posters below to call (imply) Jesus Christ, God Almighty, a *****. God can do what He wants. We are to follow His commands.     Jesus loves all people. Look at the Cross and His sacrifice for sin. But we must each receive His forgiveness; otherwise we are guilty and condemned before a Holy God for our own sins.     Father, we pray open these poster's eyes to know that your love forgives sin, delivers people from sin - including homosexuality, and that Your Holy Spirit and redaing the Bible daily give the power to live a Holy life. In Jesus' Name. Amen.   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Steve 7777, on 08-10-2008 10:50, Homosexuality is sin. While God loves all people, we cannot forget that God creataed male and female. Therefore, if man wanst to do what is unnatural and agaisnt God's order, a severe judgement will follow. Jesus said, "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand." (Mark 1:15).   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Steve 7777, on 08-10-2008 10:50, Homosexuality is sin. While God loves all people, we cannot forget that God creataed male and female. Therefore, if man wanst to do what is unnatural and agaisnt God's order, a severe judgement will follow. Jesus said, "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand." (Mark 1:15).   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Dave101, on 08-10-2008 07:21, I am tired of bigots claiming that gay people are 'shoving their lifestyles down people's throats' simply by existing and asking to be treated with equality and respect, as guaranteed (but not yet fulfilled) by the Constitution. Our society is crammed to the hilt with signs of the 'heterosexual lifestyle', yet the merest hint of a gay person sends the bigots into a frenzy. Gay/bi/trans people should not have to hide away just to make a ***** feel secure and comfortable. Apart from being supremely selfish and narrow-minded of the *****, it's fundamentally unconstitional and un-American. Jesus would be appalled at all the energy and hot air expended by such people just to deny equal rights to their fellow citizens who don't act exactly like them.   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Think! It's not illegal, yet, on 07-10-2008 17:50, Thanks to all you name callers in the comment section. You just PROVED the point of this article!! Anyone who says "I believe homosexuality is wrong" gets trampled by people screaming "RIGHTS" and "FREEDOM." I have rights too ya know. I can believe what I want to believe and I can voice those beliefs when and where I want. The Constitution says so. And just because I believe it's wrong, doesn't mean I want to march all the gay people off to a firing squad. You have a right to be gay, but you don't have a right to shove your lifestyle down my throat.   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... » See all 1 replie(s) Posted by Tom, on 07-10-2008 15:46, There's nothing in the bills that he signed that makes homosexual-bisexual- transsexual rights superior to those of everyone else. They simply make homosexual-bisexual- transsexual rights superior to those of bigots like this writer who would otherwise trample the rights of anyone who doesn't happen to agree with their irrational biases. Sounds fair to me....   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by Boohoo, on 07-10-2008 10:32, I could not conceive a less Christ-like anti-gay rant. Stop treating gay people like vermin and try acting in the true spirit of Christ   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment... Posted by steph, on 07-10-2008 10:16,   Bigots.   » Report this comment to administrator » Reply to this comment...