SAVECALIFORNIA.COM NEWS RELEASE
May 26, 2010 -- For Immediate Release
6 Questions for Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman
'Parents and grandparents deserve solid answers, not silence or doublespeak'
Sacramento, California -- With less than two weeks before California 's June 8 primary election, a leading pro-family, pro-child organization is demanding answers to 6 questions important to parents and grandparents from the top two Republican candidates for governor.
"Pro-family Californians are apprehensive, confused, even angry, that the top two Republican candidates for governor have not provided reliable answers on a number of important issues," said SaveCalifornia.com President Randy Thomasson. "Parents and grandparents deserve solid answers, not silence or doublespeak. Conservatives care deeply about the uniqueness of marriage, the importance of religious freedom, and the high respect due our written constitution. They cherish the sanctity of innocent human life, want children to have a married father and mother, and know that teens and pre-teens desperately need protection from sexually-transmitted diseases."
Steve Poizner and Meg Whitman have already said where they stand on state tax-funded abortions, Arizona 's immigration law, and marriage licenses for only a man and a woman.
However, both candidates have declined to answer six questions sent to them on May 11 regarding how they will use their authority in key areas regarding children and families, religious freedom, the courts, and stem cell research.
QUESTIONS FOR GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATES: WHAT WILL YOU DO WITH YOUR AUTHORITY
1. Will you ensure that children available for adoption are only given to a married husband and wife to be the child's father and mother? (Background: In 1987, Gov. Deukmejian adopted a policy requiring adoptive couples to be a married man and woman. This pro-family policy was reiterated by Gov. Wilson in 1995. In 1999, Gov. Davis issued an internal order reversing this policy. Gov. Schwarzenegger has declined to reverse the Davis policy allowing children to be adopted by homosexual couples and unmarried heterosexual couples.)
2. Will you veto any legislation or budgetary item that expands domestic partnerships? (Background: Today, registered same-sex domestic partners have all the legal rights and benefits of marriage between a man and a woman. Examples of possible expansion would be a) forcing private entities to provide domestic partner benefits on par with marriage, b) allowing heterosexual couples to register as domestic partners, thus eliminating marriage's legal distinction.)
3. Will you veto any legislation or budgetary item that forces individuals or entities to violate their personal conscience on sexual matters? (Background: Current law has forced the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual-rights agenda upon the public sector, private businesses, state contractors, insurance companies, state educational institutions, and, to a degree, private educational institutions that accept state funds.)
4. Will you permit abstinence-only education -- through the Governor's Teen Pregnancy Prevention program and through other means -- to be taught to children and young adults in public educational institutions? (Background: Currently, the Governor's office will not fund abstinence-only education, and the Superintendent of Public Instruction has prohibited it -- this despite a landmark study last year proving that abstinence-only education is the most effective way for teens to avoid pregnancy.)
5. Will you nominate or appoint only strict constructionists, those who abide by the original meaning of the written California Constitution, to be judges? (Background: Gov. Schwarzenegger has appointed many more Democrats than Republicans as judges.)
6. Will you, like Dr. Mehmet Oz, promote research involving induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) - from adult or cord blood stem cells - as the only beneficial stem cell research? (Background: There have been more than 73 cures and benefits from adult and cord-blood stem cells but no cures and benefits using embryonic stem cells.) See:
stemcellresearch.org facts | nytimes.com article | Dr. Oz on Oprah video | Life Report
A non-profit, non-partisan organization, SaveCalifornia.com provides this solely for educational purposes and does not support or oppose candidates for elected public office.
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SaveCalifornia.com is a leading West Coast nonprofit, nonpartisan organization representing children and families. We stand for marriage and family, parental rights, the sanctity of human life, religious freedom, financial freedom, and back-to-basics education.
