SAVECALIFORNIA.COM NEWS RELEASE
October 8, 2009 -- For Immediate Release
Parents, educators, and pro-family leaders agree:
Governor Schwarzenegger must veto 'Harvey Milk Day'
SB 572 protested Thursday at Los Angeles news conference
Los Angeles -- Concerned parents, education experts, and pro-family leaders today protested "Harvey Milk Day," a proposed annual day honoring homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality in public schools, outside Governor Schwarzenegger's Los Angeles office.
"Here's a sexual anarchist going to be held up as a role model for our children, when in reality he was just the opposite?" said parent Dolores Ditty of Glendale, whose daughter is in public high school. "How can a man who engaged in adult-child sex, who supported polygamy, who lied to get ahead, be a role model for our children? How confusing this will be to them."
"Hispanic children are dropping out of school in record numbers," said Luis Galdamez, executive director of La Familia Hispana. "And now the politicians want children to learn more about the homosexual agenda, instead doing more to academically prepare them for graduation and college? That's not just immoral, that's crazy. Hispanic families will not put up with this."
"We who are responsible for the academic achievement of thousands of children must guard and protect their best interests," said Dr. Ken Williams, member of the Orange County Board of Education, which voted to officially oppose SB 572 last month. "Replacing valuable classroom time with social engineering may be popular with some, but it's certainly not the legitimate purpose of schools."
"Harvey Milk was a sexual predator of teens, an advocate of polygamous relationships, a public liar, and is in no way a good role model for impressionable schoolchildren," said Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, the statewide pro-family, pro-child organization that sponsored today's news conference. "For the sake of parents and the children they love, the Governor must veto SB 572, Harvey Milk Day."
SaveCalifornia.com, a West Coast pro-family, pro-child organization, has been leading parents and grandparents all summer to call, email, fax, and petition Governor Schwarzenegger to veto "Harvey Milk Day" like he did last year. SB 572 is one of more than 700 bills on the Governor's desk that he must sign or veto by Oct. 11.
Today and tomorrow, SaveCalifornia.com is calling 360,000 pro-family households in California, urging them to call the Governor at 916-445-2841 to urge his veto of SB 752, "Harvey Milk Day."
For more information on SB 572, visit:
http://savecalifornia.com/oppose-harvey-milk-gay-day-sb-572.html
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