CA gender education rearing its head again
Ed Thomas, www.OneNewsNow.com
April 11, 2007

In less than a week, a committee in the California Legislature may be set to vote on recycled legislation, vetoed in an earlier form by the governor last year. Two bills coming up for a vote are again proposing what one pro-family leader calls an "indoctrination" -- rather than education -- curriculum.

California activist Randy Thomasson of Campaign for Children and Families says State Senator Sheila Kuehl's two bills in the current session, SB 777 and AB 374, would introduce sweeping changes in the state's public education system. "Those bills," he asserts, "would require that transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality be taught to school children in the textbooks, instructional materials, the school-sponsored activities, and in the teacher training."

What these bills are proposing is not education, Thomasson contends. "This is indoctrination," he insists. "This is bad. We don't need transsexual, bisexual, homosexual education being mandated here for kindergartners."

Kuehl's previous attempt at such a law was vetoed last year by Arnold Schwarzenegger. The California governor was under pressure at that time from pro-family citizens, the Campaign for Children and Families spokesman points out; however, he says now that the governor has been re-elected, Kuehl's twin bills seem to be fast-tracking toward an April 17 committee vote ahead of floor debate.

For that reason, Thomasson is urging citizens to send notices of their opposition to these education measures immediately to Governor Schwarzenegger, in case the bills pass the California Assembly.