Christian Web News - Despite the wishes of the majority of Californians, California’s lawmakers have decided that public schools should take one day a year to celebrate the life of homosexual activist Harvey Milk. Only a veto by the governor can stop it now.
SB 572 passed the state Senate with a vote of 24-14, according to Randy Thomasson of Save California , who said the result now may mean bisexual or transsexual pride parades in schools every May 22nd.
"This … is definitely not what parents want for their children," he said of the proposal that requires no parental consent for mandatory student participation.
Thomasson noted that a recent statewide poll found that the majority of Californians, including Democrats, independents, Republicans, liberals, moderates and conservatives, think that "Harvey Milk Day" should not become a statewide day of significance in schools or otherwise.
Overall, seven out of ten respondents in the Survey USA poll said the day should not be recognized. Only nineteen percent said it should.
"The California Legislature seems hell-bent on promoting the homosexual lifestyle as a role model for children," Thomasson said. "It's absurd – the government school system teaches children not to smoke or use drugs, yet SB 572 would teach children as young as kindergarten that homosexuality is good and healthy."
This same bill passed the Democrat-controlled Legislature last year as AB 2567, but was vetoed by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, which Thomasson said should happen again.
"This inappropriate bill tramples parental rights and has nothing to do with academic excellence," Thomasson said. "It's telling that SB 572 is supported by the anti-family teacher unions, which hold so much power and have so much disdain for protecting the children they claim to serve."
He raised the question whether children would be taught what Milk believed, concepts that included:
- Religion is dangerous. Milk once said, "More people have been slaughtered in the name of religion than for any other single reason. That, my friends, that is true perversion."
- All doors of sexual experimentation must be opened: Milk said, "If a bullet should go through my head let that bullet go through every closet door."
- If you have homosexual feelings, you must declare yourself "gay" or lesbian. Reports say Milk believed strongly that coming out was the responsibility of every "gay" man and woman.
- Same-sex marriages are good and natural. San Francisco Mayor Gavin Newsom said, "So much of the spirit represented with the Supreme Court's decision [instructing the recognition of homosexual marriages] is the spirit of Harvey Milk and his legacy manifesting today in real change."
"We're encouraging parents to visit Rescue Your Child to learn how to rescue their children while they still can. With public schools becoming sexual indoctrination centers, homeschooling and church schools are no longer parental options, they're parental imperatives," he said.
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