posted on May 11, 2006 02:35:58 PM new
Bill barring 'mom,' 'dad' from texts passes
California Senate approves, state Assembly expected to OK
Posted: May 11, 2006
3:49 p.m. Eastern
The California state Senate today passed a bill that removes sex-specific terms such as "mom" and "dad" from textbooks and requires students to learn about the contributions homosexuals have made to society.
The bill, approved 22-15, would prevent textbooks, teaching materials, instruction and "school-sponsored activities" from reflecting adversely on anyone based on sexual orientation or actual or perceived gender.
A companion bill has yet to go through the legislative process in the state Assembly, but observers believe it likely will pass. It's unclear whether or not Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger would sign the measure if it reaches his desk.
Responding to an argument of the bill's defenders, Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, charged it isn't "about 'safety' or 'discrimination,' it's about leading children into sexual confusion and destroying their respect for the natural family."
Another opponent, Karen England of the Capitol Resource Institute, says the legislation "seeks to indoctrinate innocent children caught in the tug-of-war between traditional families and the outrageous homosexual agenda."
"The state Senate is so far out of touch with California families that it is beyond alarming," said England. "The traditional family is under attack and this is a latest – and most outrageous – attempt to corrupt the minds of our children."
England said school districts also would likely have to do away with dress codes and "accommodate transsexuals on girl-specific or boy- specific sports teams."
Sponsored by Democratic Sen. Sheila Kuehl – a lesbian actress best known for playing Zelda in "The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis" in the 1960s – the legislation would add "gender" (actual or perceived) and "sexual orientation" to the law that prohibits California public schools from having textbooks, teaching materials, instruction or "school-sponsored activities" that reflect adversely upon people based on characteristics like race, creed and handicap.
"We've been working since 1995 to try to improve the climate in schools for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender kids, as well as those kids who are just thought to be gay, because there is an enormous amount of harassment and discrimination at stake," Kuehl explained. "Teaching materials mostly contain negative or adverse views of us, and that's when they mention us at all."
"In textbooks, it's as if there's no gay people in California at all, so forget about it," she added.
posted on May 11, 2006 06:14:52 PM newa bill that removes sex-specific terms such as "mom" and "dad" from textbooks and requires students to learn about the contributions homosexuals have made to society.
posted on May 11, 2006 06:50:25 PM new
Worse than auwful. That is what is wrong with this world everyone making a big deal out of being different and making laws that should be put in the toilet. IF I had young school age kids if I want them to know about gays I will tell them not the school. BUT kids know anyway. IF it was natural to have 2 dads or 2 moms then you would not need a male female union to have kids to begin with weather that is a petre dish or ala-natural. THE natural order of families is Mom Dad and kid. Not Daddy & Pop or Mommy and Maney (PUN). Just glad I don't live in Ca. right now. If the sickos want to live together fine just don't cram it down the kids throats because they feel left out. EWWWW be still my tongue.
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posted on May 12, 2006 04:40:04 AM newand making laws that should be put in the toilet.]
I agree irked. Maken laws to natzi'size (force)
society into agreeing with your sense of morality is just wrong. How the hell u supposed to exclude the words Mom and Dad from kids precept??
posted on May 12, 2006 09:55:10 AM new
And what is the dipstick who wrote this piece of crap legislation? A demomoron.
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Many misleading tricks in 2006. The new Demomoron slogan.
posted on May 12, 2006 02:02:24 PM new
"I would be looking to live elsewhere if I had children there. Or start homeschooling."
I actually moved to Utah for two years, because of the onerous child-protection laws in California. The laws in California tie your hands in disciplining out-of-control children. And we are treveling to the South next month looking for a more desirable area, the California caca-bowl is 'bout full.
The problem child just had her second child. And I'm the Grandpa.
Today's buffet, chocolate and cherry kool-aid. Then it's time for you to go home. Hee hee!
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[ edited by parklane64 on May 12, 2006 02:02 PM ]
posted on May 29, 2006 06:43:50 AM new
"The California state Senate today passed a bill that removes sex-specific terms such as "mom" and "dad" from textbooks and requires students to learn about the contributions homosexuals have made to society."
Gays are people too.
But, I always thought they had mom's and pop's.
At least this gives me a better idea as to what makes them different (besides the gay women having tuna breath and the gay men smelling like sh*t)
I still think it's a disease like alcoholism, obesity, frog licking, drugs and gambling.
posted on May 29, 2006 09:05:48 AM new
That is the MOST ridiculous thing I've ever heard of. The state has gone totally MAD...
Everything that WAS normal...is now not PC....and everything that WAS the exception is the 'norm' now. Part of why we LEFT the state.
The ONLY good thing that I also have read, is that IF this bill passed, Governor Arnold was going to VETO it. And I hope he stricts to that and does so.
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Hey.....WELCOME back Colin. Long time no see....hope all is well with you and the wife.
posted on May 29, 2006 05:22:26 PM new
California was nuts long before political correctness happened. That big earthquake is long overdue as far as I'm concerned.
Colin, since you're so busy being self righteous about sexual preference being a disease, and asserting that gay people haven't made any contributions to society, here's a partial list to think about:
Sports
Martina Navratilova, professional tennis champion
Billie Jean King, professional tennis champion
David Kopay, retired NFL football player
Greg Louganis, three-time Olympic gold medalist in diving
Glenn Burke, Ex-Major League baseball player
Dave Pallone, Ex-Major League baseball umpire
Bruce Hayes, Olympic swimmer
Bob Jackson, professional bodybuilder
Babe Didrikson Zaharias, professional golfer
Tom Waddell, Olympic decathelete
Music
Elton John, musician
George Michael, musician
k.d. lang, musician
Melissa Etheridge, musician
Boy George, musician (Culture Club)
Ani DiFranco, musician
Brian Epstein, First manager for the Beatles
Liberace, pianist/entertainer
Aaron Copeland, composer
Johnny Mathis, musician
Iggy Pop, musician
Janis Ian, musician
Michael Stipe, (lead singer of R.E.M.)
Joan Baez, musician
Cole Porter, song writer
Leonard Berstein*, Composer (West Side Story, On the Waterfront)
Pete Townsend, musician (The Who)
Jimmy Somerville, musician (Bronski Beat)
Paul Rutherford, singer (Frankie goes to Hollywood)
Holly Johnson, lead singer (Frankie goes to Hollywood)
Emily Sailers, musician (Indigo Girls)
Amy Ray, musician (Indigo Girls)
Franz Schubert, composer
Peter Tchaikovsky, composer
Josephine Baker, singer
Andy Bell, musician
Benjamin Britten, composer
Bessie Smith, singer
Patty Schemel, drummer (Hole)
Dave Navaro, musician (Red Hot Chilli Peppers)
Writers, Poets & Playwrights
Willa Cather*, writer (My Antonia, O' Pioneers)
Radclyffe Hall, writer (The Well of Loneliness)
James Baldwin, writer (Go Tell it on the Mountian, Giovanni's Room, Another Country)
Andrew Sullivan, editor of The New Republic magazine
May Sarton, writer
Randy Shilts, journalist (The Mayor of Castro Street; And the Band Played On)
Deb Price, Gannett newspapers columnist
Edward Albee, playwright (Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
Sir James M. Barrie, playwirght/novelist (Peter Pan)
Armistead Maupin, writer (Tales of the City)
Audre Lorde, African-American poet and activist
Rita Mae Brown, novelist
William S. Burroughs, novelist
John Boswell, historian/writer
Gertrude Stein, writer
Walt Whitman, poet (Leaves of Grass)
Tennessee Williams, playwright (The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Desire)
Hans Christian Anderson, writer of children's fairy tales
Malcolm Forbes, publisher
Somerset Maugham, writer
Sappho, Greek poet
Oscar Wilde, playwright/novelist (The Portrait of Dorian Gray)
Marcel Proust, writer (Remembrance of Things Past)
Emily Dickinson*, poet
Gore Vidal, novelist
Chastity Bono, writer for The Advocate (daughter of Sonny & Cher)
E.M. Forster, writer (Howard's End, A Passage to India, Maurice)
Amy Lowell, poet
Virginia Woolf*,writer
Alice B. Toklas, writer
Edna St. Vincent Millay, poet
Henry James,writer
Sir Francis Bacon, writer
Lord Byron, poet
Allen Ginsberg, poet
Entertainers, Directors & Producers
Rock Hudson, actor
Amanda Bearsey, actress
Ellen DeGeneres, actress/comedian
Gus Van Sant, filmmaker (My Own Private Idaho)
Sandra Bernhardt, comedian/actress
Siegfried and Roy, entertainers
Dick Sargent, actor (second Darrin on Bewitched)
David Geffen, film producer/music business
RuPaul, entertainer
Julie Cypher, director (Teresa's Tattoo, music videos)
Kate Clinton, comedian
Sir Ian McKellen, actor
Tom Hulce, actor (Mozart in Amadeus)
Marie Schneider, actress (The Last Tango in Paris)
Lily Tomlin, actress/comedian
James Dean*, actor
Pedro Almodovar, director
Lea DeLaria, comedian
Errol Flynn*, actor
Montgomery Clift, actor
Artists
Andy Warhol
Jean Cocteau
Michelangelo*
Georgia O'Keefe
Frieda Kahlo
Leonardo da Vinci*
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posted on June 1, 2006 11:13:41 PM newYou forgot the wanton spreading of AIDS and groups like NAMBLA
Specious argument Colin. Worldwide, AIDS is and has always been a heterosexual disease, and NAMBLA represents the homosexual population about as well as the polygamists in N. AZ and Utah represent the heteros. If you're going to judge one group by it's wackos, you gotta judge your own group by it's wackos too. Hmm, bikers, let's see, where do we start judging them? Organized crime? Running dope across country? Vehicle law violations? Gang rapes? (forget about long nasty hair and generally offensive appearance)
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posted on June 2, 2006 06:40:44 AM new
" bikers, let's see, where do we start judging them? Organized crime? Running dope across country? Vehicle law violations? Gang rapes? (forget about long nasty hair and generally offensive appearance)"
What's the problem?
Weren't you one of the people on this board the wanted drugs legalized?
Are you talking about parking tickets?
Gang Rapes? It's usually consensual sex with non biker type’s wife’s. It was a good movie theme in the 70's.
My hair is short now. I don't think my appearance is offensive, at least not as offensive as my manner can be.
Yes AIDS is a worldwide plague but it was propagated by the gay community in North America.
With the information I can find, they have killed off a half million of their own and many straight people too.
posted on June 2, 2006 08:06:59 AM new
I don't want drugs legalized so I can use them, I just want the incredibly wasteful and largely ineffective "war" on drugs to end. But this is a side issue. To characterize one group of people by it's most outrageous few isn't right. Most gays aren't boy lovers any more than most heteros are child lovers and I'm pretty sure you know that. As far as AIDS is concerned, I certainly never felt threatened by it, and I don't know why anyone would, unless they were an IV drug user or practicing unsafe sex, both of which are lifestyle choices for which there are consequences that a person ought to have to take responsibility for. Sure, there are a very few who contracted HIV through tainted blood in hospitals, or got it from a needle stick or body fluid splash while giving medical care, but that number is so small as to be insignificant. Most people with AIDS got it due to choices they made. It's pretty hard to catch you know. You act as if the queers somehow personally threatened YOU with AIDS. They didn't, unless you were already doing dumb things, which I doubt, since everybody knows the stereotypes about bikers were just movie themes and not really real.
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posted on June 2, 2006 08:35:40 AM new
"Most people with AIDS got it due to choices they made. It's pretty hard to catch you know. You act as if the queers somehow personally threatened YOU with AIDS."
