Bills turn kids into 'sexualized activists'

Bills turn kids into 'sexualized activists'
Schwarzenegger urged to veto legislation described as 'hell on wheels'

There's less than 100 hours left for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger either to sign or veto two Democratic legislative proposals that would create "hell on wheels" in California's school system, family groups say.

The statutory deadline for Schwarzenegger to announce his decision on AB 606 and AB 1056 is Sept. 30, and Randy Thomasson of the Campaign for Children and Families said that decision will have a huge impact on generations to come.

He told WND today that if the bills were approved, children from their first day in California public schools would become "sexualized activists" who would "radically" change the society that exists.

Schwarzenegger's office told WND that the two bills are among several hundred that remain to be either signed or vetoed, and no decision had been made.

However, Thomasson's group has been lobbying since the "gay"-supported plans were approved by lawmakers for parents and grandparents to call the governor's office to express opposition to the concepts.

That campaign has been moving along satisfactorily, with the state adding more lines to the governor's office in order to handle the flood of opinion being delivered. He said thousands and thousands of calls have been made.

"People have been reporting to us, they've been calling, praying, e-mailing their friends. They can't believe these bills even were introduced. They see them as hell on wheels," Thomasson told WND.

He said this is the one time that it's good that Schwarzenegger has multiple offices around the state, so that people can be calling any of them.

"If Arnold Schwarzenegger signs these bills, we will be calling on people to leave the governor's race blank on their ballot and calling upon pro-family people to remove their children from the government school system," Thomasson said.

Life in California under these bills would mean that "children would not go to school anymore, they would go to sexual indoctrination centers for six hours a day. They would come home sexualized activists at an early age, stalking their parents and radically changing the society we live in."

AB 606 would allow the state to financially destroy local schools unless those districts trained all their teachers to promote transsexuality, bisexuality and homosexuality as "good" and "natural" for children as young as ages four and five, Thomasson said.

The other plan, AB 1056, would spend $250,000 to promote those alternative sexual lifestyles at 10 specific schools. It "turns the traditional agree-to-disagree definition of 'tolerance' upside down and instead mandates that schoolchildren 'respect' and actively promote all kinds of sexual behaviors," Thomasson's group said.

"The governor's main telephone number at 916-445-2841 has a recorded message asking callers to 'support' or 'oppose' AB 606 and AB 1056, as well as five other high-profile bills," the CCF said.

"Governor Schwarzenegger will lose the support of hundreds of thousands of values voters unless he vetoes these sexual indoctrination bills," said Thomasson. "AB 606 and AB 1056 are turning off parents and grandparents, big-time."

The governor earlier vetoed a plan that would have banned any book or piece of material, program or statement that would have "reflected negatively" on those alternative sexual lifestyles.

However, he did sign into law a plan to require schools or facilities that get state funding, even if it's indirectly through a student's state grant or scholarship, to promote those alternative choices.

The plan will force religious colleges either to abandon their Biblical standards on sexuality or reject students with state aid, Thomasson said.

Karen England, executive director of the Capitol Resource Institute, said the bills "deserve his veto."

And the Colorado Springs-based Focus on the Family also has encouraged parents to speak out against the proposals in California.