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Thursday, April 27, 2006

California Education in Danger?

When listening to "Focus on the Family" on the way to work today, I was disturbed to hear of a bill pending in California:


Senate Bill 1437 has passed from the California Senate
Judiciary Committee and can at any moment be voted on by the full Senate. If signed into law,
it would force all public school teachers to present to students a one-sided message about homosexuality, bisexuality and transgender issues.

The bill would ban lessons, discussions and activities
that reflect adversely upon one's sexual orientation, which would end any
open discussion about the issue of homosexuality in public classrooms and
effectively silence the Christian voice on the issue.To compound this bias,
the bill calls for all facets of education to be stripped of any non-endorsing messages about homosexuality. Amendments made to the bill in late March also require social science lesson plans to include the contributions homosexuals, bisexuals and transgenders have made to society.


It would be awful to be mandated as a teacher to incorperate this sexual agenda in the public classroom. It would not happen in my class. Being required to explain sexual orientation to 2nd graders is absurd. It crosses lines in so many areas of thought, it's mind-boggling that the bill has gotten this far! Besides my faith in God, this bill goes against biological, social, logical, scientific, emotional, and ethical reasoning too detailed to go into. I'm not political-- but when I hear about things like this, someone needs to speak up.

If you would like to voice your opinion, go to CitizenLink's website(http://family.org/cforum/) or just click on the icon above: "California: Call to Action". I will now step down off my soapbox.

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