Fundies fight "homosexual indoctrination" of California's children....

[marmar]

Sometimes emoticons speak louder than words.: :crazy: :crazy: :crazy:



from the American Family Association's:crazy: One News Now:


Calif. conservatives: Fight against school indoctrination law not over yet
Ed Thomas
OneNewsNow.com
January 15, 2008


The coalition of parents and pro-family groups trying to fight California's SB 777 -- a law passed in 2007 that they say indoctrinates public school students to the homosexual agenda -- has regrouped, launching a new effort against it after falling short in a ballot referendum petition drive last week.

Save Our Kids Campaign announced they were more than 80,000 signatures short at the January 10 deadline, collecting only 350,000 after 70 days. Spokesperson Karen England says that meant the attempt to delay SB 777 with a referendum ballot drive had failed. But the group, she explains, decided to take a different tact for a public vote to nullify the new law -- called an initiative -- that will allow them more time than before to collect signatures.

"The clock starts once we get the information back from the Attorney General, and we have 150 days to collect the necessary 434,000 signatures as opposed to the less than 70 days we had to collect that amount," she says. If they qualify, either a November ballot or special election will bring state citizens to vote on their initiative. "Basically what we've done is file language that if the people agree and vote on it, if we get enough signatures, it will the education code that SB 777 changed ... back to the old code prior to SB 777," says the campaign spokesperson.

England says despite the setback, and even though many pro-family supporters have chosen to withdraw children from public schools rather than join Save Our Kids Campaign, many families are encouraging the leaders to continue. "We were able to collect the most that any drive has ever done, volunteer only, so we are very encouraged ... which is why we're carrying on," says England. "Our people want us to carry on this fight ... and stand up for families."

SB 777 went into effect the next day after the referendum count was announced.

http://www.onenewsnow.com/2008/01/calif_conservatives_fight_agai.php

[NMMNG]

1. Those wingnuts never stop, do they?

Rather than spend an eternity typing I'll just provide you with something I previously wrote on the subject.

[marmar]

3. Thanks for the link.....I love the organization names they come up with.

"Concerned Women of America" :eyes:

[NMMNG]

4. Have you ever noticed that their biggest spokes-people are men?

Peter LaBarbera in particular. I guess being fundies they need to have men speak for them and even give them permission to speak, though they're Concerned Women. :puke:

[baldguy]

2. Hate is not a family value.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

6. To evangelicals hate is a family value. nt

[Kucinich4America]

15. Depends on which family you talk to

[Maat]

5. I was at a parents' meeting a few months ago ...

and this was the number one concern. When I heard the director announce that, this PFLAGer burst out laughing, and indicated that the objections to 777 represented the apex of ridiculousness. I just reacted automatically. Then, I noticed them staring at me (I live in Fundieland Central in SoCal). Don't worry, I educated them (didn't make me popular, though).

[Hekate]

9. I've always wondered what exactly the Homosexual Agenda consists of. Thanks for speaking up promptly

[Maat]

12. Near as I can tell ...

there was this irrational fear that a transgender kid might use my kid's restroom.

It was SO odd.

It didn't seem to be the positive portrayal of same-sex couples, and their families, although I got nothing but stunned faces when I told them we had many friends in same-sex committed relationships, and that we had been on floats in the pride parades with them.

HeeHee - the look on their faces WAS priceless.

:evilgrin:

[hulklogan]

7. Hey fundies

[NMMNG]

8. I like that

[Rex]

10. Oh yeah, pro-family, fighing for families and children blah blah.

You lying, worthless bags of mostly water! All you care about is dominating another group of people!

The only thing a Fundie is good for?

Firewood.

[IndianaJones]

11. glad I live in Indiana, where this ridiculousness doesn't happen. nt.

[woo me with science]

13. "jesus camp." enough said about indoctrination. nt

[Kucinich4America]

14. I can't remember if they had homosexual indoctrination class when I was in school

If they did, I must have flunked.

[casus belli]

16. Let's break it down...all the way down

"Our people want us to carry on this fight ... and stand up for families."


Family: 1. A group of individuals related by blood or marriage or by a feeling of closeness. 2. A biological classification of related plants or animals that is a division below the order and above the genus. 3. A group of genes related in structure and in function that descended from an ancestral gene. 4. A group of gene products similarly related in structure and function and of shared genetic descent. 5. Parents and their children. The most fundamental social group in humans.

Hmm, well I'll be damned. Not a single thing about sexual preference in that definition taken straight from a medical dictionary. I don't know what it is they're "standing up for", but one thing is for sure. It isn't families.