[Pflienews] PharmFacts E-News Update: Words like "mom, dad" out in CA; thanks Ahnold!

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*PharmFacts E-News Update -- 12 Jan 2008 AD

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WorldNetDaily
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=58185

October 17, 2007

BRAVE NEW SCHOOLS

*California 'Mom,' 'Dad' ban garners international scorn

*World Congress of Families condemns promotion of 'polymorphous perversion'

By Bob Unruh

An international organization promoting families says California 
families have no choice but to abandon the public school system after 
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a new "anti-discrimination" bill into 
law, effectively making terms like "mom" and dad" obsolete.

As WND has reported, some family advocates in California already had 
come to the same conclusion as that reached now by the World Congress of 
Families.

World Congress of Families Global Coordinator Allan Carlson said the 
measure, SB 777, is "a blatant attack on the natural family orchestrated 
by the alternative-lifestyles lobby."

The exodus call had been issued just one day earlier by Randy Thomasson, 
president of Campaign for Children and Families. "We're calling upon 
every California parent to pull their child out of California's public 
school system," he told WND.

"The so-called 'public schools' are no longer a safe emotional 
environment for children. Under the new law, schoolchildren as young as 
kindergarten will be sexually indoctrinated and introduced to 
homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality, over the protests of 
parents, teachers and even school districts," he said.

The law at issue went through the California legislature as SB 777, and 
now bans in school texts and activities any discriminatory bias against 
those who have chosen alternative sexual lifestyles, Meredith Turney, 
legislative liaison for Capitol Resource Institute, said.

The World Congress noted the law prohibits "instruction" or "activity" 
that is perceived to "promote a discriminatory bias" against "gender," 
including cross-dressing and sex-change operations as well as "so-called 
sexual orientation."

"It will prohibit anything that suggests that the natural family -- a 
man and a woman, married, with children -- is normal or typical," said 
Carlson. "Thus, under this latest advance toward a Brave New World of 
polymorphous perversion, California textbooks will no longer be able to 
use words like 'mother and father' and 'husband and wife,' because they 
suggest that heterosexuality is the norm -- even though that is 
manifestly the case, even in California."

The organization's statement called it "unbelievable" that teachers and 
students who oppose same-sex marriage and suggest homosexuality isn't 
innate, or disapprove of cross-dressing and sex-change operations, could 
be disciplined as "harassers," and students may use the restrooms 
designated for the gender with which they identify.

"California parents who don't want to see their children subjected to 
gender indoctrination will now have no alternative but to withdraw from 
the public education system -- which they will be required to fund, 
nonetheless," Carlson said.

Carlson co-authored with Paul Mero "The Natural Family: A Manifesto," 
and the World Congress is in the forefront of the international 
pro-family movement today. Its most recent congress was in Warsaw in 
May, and drew delegates from 62 nations.

While SB 777 provides protections for those promoting alternative 
lifestyle choices, there are no similar protections for students with 
traditional or conservative lifestyles and beliefs. Offenders will face 
the wrath of the state Department of Education, up to and including 
lawsuits.

"SB 777 will result in reverse discrimination against students with 
religious and traditional family values. These students have lost their 
voice as the direct result of Gov. Schwarzenegger's unbelievable 
decision. The terms 'mom and dad' or 'husband and wife' could promote 
discrimination against homosexuals if a same-sex couple is not also 
featured," said Turney.

"Parents want the assurance that when their children go to school they 
will learn the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic -- not 
social indoctrination regarding alternative sexual lifestyles. Now that 
SB 777 is law, schools will in fact become indoctrination centers for 
sexual experimentation," she said.

Karen England, chief of CRI, told WND that the law is not a list of 
banned words, including "mom" and "dad." But she said the requirement is 
that the law bans discriminatory bias and the effect will be to ban such 
terminology.

"Having 'mom' and 'dad' promotes a discriminatory bias. You have to 
either get rid of 'mom' and 'dad' or include everything when talking 
about [parental issues]," she said. "They [promoters of sexual 
alternative lifestyles] do consider that discriminatory."

Her organization immediately filed with the state a plan to take the 
issue to the state's voters in a referendum as early as 2008. Yesterday, 
the institute issued a list of advisories because officials have been 
"overwhelmed" by those who are outraged by the state's actions.

"By filing the SB 777 referendum with the attorney general, CRFI seeks 
to bring SB 777 before the people of California for vote," the advisory 
said. "The vast majority of Californians are shocked when they learn of 
SB 777's purpose. We believe that if it is brought before the people, it 
will be overturned."

England's organization said SB 777, by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa 
Monica, "is the most blatant and egregious assault on traditional family 
values that CRI has witnessed in our 20 years of serving families in the 
capitol ... SB 777 actually advances a radical sexual agenda on children 
as young as five years old."

"The vague language of this bill could be interpreted to mean that 
instruction that only features a mom and dad or traditional family would 
be 'promoting a discriminatory bias' against homosexual couples. It 
would promote 'heterosexism' to only show male and female couples, 
without equal time for homosexual, transsexual and transgender 
'families,'" she said.

She said while supporters of the activist plan argue those conclusions 
are absurd, the organization actually "is merely publicizing policies 
that have already been implemented in Los Angeles Unified School 
District regarding transgender students."

England noted that the district website confirms if a male perceives 
himself as a female, "he must be granted access to female locker rooms 
and restrooms. He must be allowed to participate in female sports 
activities.

"If the student wishes to keep his sexual status from his parents, the 
teachers and administration must refer to the masculine pronoun (him/he) 
when talking to his parents and use the feminine pronoun (she/her) at 
school," the Capitol Resource analysis concluded.

"This shocking policy treats parents as the enemy of the transgender 
student..." the analysis said.

Thomasson had posted on his website examples of situations he said he 
expects to see develop:

    * "Please turn to Chapter 10, entitled Famous Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual 
and Transgender people. History tells us that great Americans such as 
Walt Whitman and Abraham Lincoln were gay and First Lady Eleanor 
Roosevelt was lesbian. It's likely that even prominent biblical personas 
were gay, such as King David of Israel and the Apostle Paul. Until this 
year, the sexual identities of these and other historical figures have 
been denied by discriminatory textbooks that reflected adversely on LGBT 
people by ignoring their existence."

    * "Children, our new picture book has arrived. This is a fantastic 
story called Daddy's Wedding. It teaches us that no relationship is bad. 
See the two men dressed in tuxedos, like they're at a wedding? Daddy's 
Wedding tells us that two men can love each other and even get married..."

Ray Moore, a spokesman for Exodus Mandate, which advocates Christians 
give up on public schools and either school their children at home or 
send them to Christian schools, agreed with Thomasson, and went further.

"This really is a call to conservative and Christian pro-family groups 
to give up this absurd idea of public school reform," he told WND. "It 
can't be done. The longer they talk about saving public schools, the 
longer they prolong this agony, when they could be setting up new schools."

He said such plans to indoctrinate children in sexual alternatives is 
not a surprise at all. "The pagans are simply obeying their god," he said.

He also warned that the rest of the nation could feel the impact of the 
decision, because California is known as a trend-setter in educational 
practice and policy.

"California always has been on the cutting edge of trends, sometimes 
good and sometimes bad," Moore said. "What happens in California 
sometimes can spread nationwide.

"I do know textbook publishers blow with the wind," Thomasson added, 
"whether they blow from Texas or California, because those are the 
biggest states. That's how they sell books."

He said textbook editors now have a new agenda to satisfy if they want 
to sell their products in California. "We could see those [new] books 
within a year or two."

As WND reported, a board member for the homosexual advocacy group 
Equality California verbally attacked and threatened CRI for its 
opposition to the bill earlier.

The board member sent an e-mail and video to CRI threatening the group 
would be buried if it continued efforts opposing the homosexual advocacy.

"The shocking hate mail we received shows that those behind this 
legislation do not promote true tolerance," said England. "Only 
politically correct speech will be tolerated. Those with religious or 
traditional moral beliefs will not be allowed to express their opinions 
in public schools."

She also cited an informational document published by the Gay-Straight 
Alliance Network and the Transgender Law Center that already has 
outlined what it believes to be nondiscriminatory treatment in the 
school system.

"If you want to use a restroom that matches your gender identity ... you 
should be allowed to do so," it advises. "Whenever students are divided 
up into boys and girls, you should be allowed to join the group or 
participate in the program that matches your gender identity as much as 
possible."

Further, the groups advise, "If you change your name to one that better 
matches your gender identity, a school needs to use that name to refer 
to you." The advocacy group also warns schools against bringing parents 
into any such discussion with students.

WND has documented a number of earlier cases in which educators, 
including leaders in California, have taken it upon themselves to 
promote a homosexual lifestyle to children under their charge.

WND reported California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack 
O'Connell, under whose supervision hundreds of thousands of children are 
being educated, has used his state position and taxpayer-funded 
stationery to praise a "gay" pride event used in the past to expose 
children to sexually explicit activities.

That drew vehement objections from several educators, including 
Priscilla Schreiber, the president of the Grossmont Unified High School 
District governing board.

"I am outraged that a person in this high-ranking elected position would 
advocate an event where diversity is not just being celebrated but where 
pornography and indecent exposure is being perpetrated on the young and 
innocent children of our communities," she said.

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