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In addition to the sexual indoctrination coming into every California public school, consider all the other elements found in the government-run school system:

> Evolution training promoting unbelief in God 
> Distribution of condoms and birth control pills without parental consent
> "Confidential" abortion referrals and outside counseling without parental consent
> Widespread rejection of religious values
> No effective discipline
> Negative peer pressure
> Less safety and less academic success, on average, than private or home schools 

These "public school values," in addition to the new school sexual indoctrination laws, should be more than enough reason to jump into action and exit the public school system for the love of God and family.    

For encouragement to leave your public school, here are key websites:

Alliance for Separation of School and State (California-based "help-you-leave-your-public-school organization)

Exodus Mandate Project (encourages Christian parents to provide their children with a Christian education through home schooling or private schooling)

(Oct. 23 update) Here are good sources of home-school programs and curricula to help you start home schooling on your own, or to help your church start a “one-room schoolhouse” co-op with several parents:

Alpha Omega Publications (professional home school curriculum through a dynamic distance-learning model)

A Beka Academy (excellent online homeschool program)

BJU Press Distance Learning (another very good online homeschool program)

CLASS: Christian Liberty Academy (very inexpensive, but fully supported, homeschool curriculum for parents and co-ops)

National Association of University-Model Schools (low-cost elementary and secondary school education in half the hours)

First Class Homeschools (get help planting a church-based, parent-led homeschool co-op)

Southern Baptist Association of Christian Schools (get help setting up various models of Christian schools)

Association of Christian and Classical Schools (helps churches and parents to start classical Christian schools)

Escondido Tutorials (online classical education for junior high and high school students)

Discover Christian Schools (learn about starting or enrolling in a more conventional Christian schools)

Considering HomeSchooling Ministry (encouraging and informing parents who are considering home schooling)

Homeschooling Family to Family (helping you to help other families by introducing them to homeschooling)

When you can no longer protect your children, you must remove them from a threatening environment. Because the equivalent of mental molestation is coming to California public schools, CCF is recommending that California parents who love their children flee to home schools or church-operated private schools. At this point, the only way to fight sexual indoctrination in the schools is through a statutory initiative or a constitutional amendment. That requires $2.5 million to place on the ballot, and then it would have to be passed on Election Day.

Please be on the lookout for Part 2 of my message next week. I will do my best to explain why this disaster happened, what the root causes are, and what the big-picture solution really is.

Don't think you have what it takes to home school? Think again.
> Am I qualified to teach my child?
> Home school options, ideas, resources
> FAQs about home schooling in California

Don't think you can afford private school? Think again.
> Yes, you can afford private school
> Can't afford private school?
> “Why money is never an issue”

Additional Notes on the California Referendum Process

Here is a brief but detailed explanation of the limited purpose and relative weakness of a ballot referendum compared to a statutory initiative and a constitutional amendment on the ballot:
 
If the Legislature passes and the Governor signs a bill, anyone can challenge the signed bill by filing a referendum and collecting enough signatures (around 700,000 raw signatures of registered voters) to place the proposed statute on the ballot for the voters to decide.
 
If a majority of the electorate votes NO, the proposed statute is rejected and never becomes part of the law. However, there's nothing to prevent the Legislature from coming back and passing the exact bill or a similar bill in the future. In effect, a successful ballot referendum to "repeal" SB 777 is only temporary and allows the Legislature to come back with the same bill in 2008 or after. You can only hope that they won't.
 
If a majority of the electorate votes YES, the "referendum statute" becomes law. However, the California Constitution permits the Legislature to amend or repeal the new law in the future. This is because the new referendum statute does not rise to the level of an "initiative statute," which, in contrast, cannot be amended or repealed by the Legislature once passed by the voters. The long-lasting effect of an initiative statute prohibiting the promotion of sexual indoctrination in the schools, if carefully and specifically written, would effectively tie the hands of the Legislature. This is something a referendum can't do.
 
Here is the applicable part of the California Constitution, which illustrates the distinction between referendums and statutory initiatives:
 
CALIFORNIA CONSTITUTION
ARTICLE 2  VOTING, INITIATIVE AND REFERENDUM, AND RECALL
 
SEC. 10. (c) The Legislature may amend or repeal referendum statutes.
It may amend or repeal an initiative statute by another statute that
becomes effective only when approved by the electors unless the
initiative statute permits amendment or repeal without their approval.
 
The second sentence in the above paragraph, which prohibits the Legislature from repealing voter-approved initiatives, is the reason why Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger's hands were tied on the homosexual "marriage" bill (AB 43), and why he had to veto it to comply with the California Constitution.

If Schwarzenegger had signed AB 43, this newly-signed law would have been quickly challenged and struck down in court. Why? Because of the plain, unambiguous language of Proposition 22, passed in March 2000: "Only marriage between a man and a woman is valid or recognized in California." Even the California courts have ruled that the Legislature cannot create same-sex "marriages," because Proposition 22 was an initiative statute.
 
However, to this day, marriage between a man and a woman is still threatened by the California Supreme Court, which is likely to license "same-sex marriages" in a decision early next year. State judges are not limited by initiative statutes, only by reasonably specific constitutional amendments approved by the voters, which clearly define the Constitution so that the judges won’t be tempted to "interpret" something new into existence.

This is why Proposition 22 should have been a constitutional amendment instead of a statutory initiative. It's also why the strongest protection against school sexual indoctrination would be a constitutional amendment -- which protects against judges. At the very least, a detailed statutory initiative -- which protects against the Legislature and the Governor -- is needed to tie the hands of the Legislature, something a referendum cannot do.

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