Homeschool News & Views

Issue 43, for November 2, 2007

By Homeschool Helpers

A momentous event has occurred in the history of government schools in America.

Governor Schwarzenegger has signed into law in California SB 777, called the Student Civil Rights Act. This law has the effect of forcing the teaching of homosexuality in all California public schools.

Previously Schwarzenegger had vetoed such a bill, only one year ago. This time he approved it. That underscores the importance of having leaders who are men of principle, not just politicians. Men of principle will stand, regardless of the effect on their political careers. Politicians change with the wind.

The wind has changed in California and in the United States. Forcing the teaching of homosexuality in all California public schools in all grades is a first for the nation. Liberals have sneaked homo teaching into the schools in the past, but now they have the power of government law behind them. Parents will not be able to opt out of this teaching.

What effects will this immediately begin to have?

First of all, the textbooks for use all across the nation will be rewritten. California is a big textbook market, and California is a market leader. Textbook publishers print textbooks to sell. They are not interested in truth. They are interested in sales. Even though California is the only state which has forced homosexual teaching by law, the textbook publishers will now alter their textbooks, which will then be purchased for use all across the nation.

If you are a public school parent anywhere in the US, this California law will affect what your child will read in his textbooks. Those texts will present a view of America which has never been presented and which is a lie. In order to ensure that they do not reflect badly on homosexuality, they will go to the other extreme. They will find homosexual heroes where none existed. They will make out American historical figures to be clandestine homosexuals, or they will picture American historical figures to be bigots and not heroes at all. All of this will be a lie, just as evolution is a lie, but it will be presented as gospel truth, just as evolution has been presented as truth.

Will the next generation of Americans believe this lie which will be presented in their trusted textbooks as truth? Well, do they believe evolution?

The California law bans discriminatory bias based on gender identity. That will have the effect of banning normal family words and concepts. Liberals consider the promotion of the normal traditional family in any form as discriminatory. Therefore in the schools families must never be pictured only as a husband and wife or father and mother. Even such words as father and mother and mom and dad will be politically incorrect in California schools, and consequently in California society.

Students will be actively taught that homosexuality is a moral behavior. They will be actively taught that it is immoral to call such behavior immoral. They will be shown specifically in detail what homosexual practices are. They will be religiously indoctrinated in this new morality. No students will be able to object to this indoctrination. No other viewpoints will be allowed.

Because discrimination is forbidden based on perceived gender, it would seem that a young man may perceive himself for a short while as female, in which case he would be entitled to use the female restrooms. Are there some young men in California schools who are eager to try this?

The Gay-Straight Alliance Network and the Transgender Law Center says, "If you want to use a restroom that matches your gender identity … you should be allowed to do so. Whenever students are divided up into boys and girls, you should be allowed to join the group or participate in the program that matches your gender identity as much as possible." The advocacy group also warns schools against bringing parents into any such discussion with students.

In response to this, some Californians are trying to get a referendum on the statewide ballot repealing the homo indoctrination law. The plan has been filed with the California Attorney General, and the sponsors have 90 days to collect about 435,000 signatures to get the issue on a statewide ballot.

That is a terrible mistake by these people.

Even if their referendum gets on the ballot and is approved, that still puts them right back where they were, and that is with their children under government control. That is the basic problem. Government should never be educating its citizens, any more than it should be running its press or its churches. When a government educates its citizens, that government will always want to educate them for the purposes of the government, as California is doing now.

It would be far better if these concerned people would put their effort into changing this whole system of education, taking the power of education out of the hands of perverse politicians and putting it into the hands of the parents. Nothing short of that will ever make a real change for the better.

California had such a measure on the ballot a few years ago. It was voted down by liberals and by some Christians. The Christians said they feared that if the government handed out funds for education, that would compromise the Christian education system which already existed. Because they did that, the state of California is in the position it is in today. What if California had approved that change in education, giving parents the power over education instead of leaving it in the hands of perverse politicians? What would California be like today? Would almost all of California’s children now be receiving indoctrination into sodomy? Surely not.

What those Christians did not realize is that their educational freedom is in great danger, anyway. The liberals will not stop at controlling the public schools. They intend to put anti-Christian teachings and practices into every family in America. They are only using the public schools as a power base for doing that. When they have indoctrinated enough young people into their religion, then they will move against those remnants they have not been able to control. They will move to bring churches, Christian schools and Christian homeschools under their control, and they will have the political power to do that, because of their having indoctrinated 90% of American youth into their beliefs.

So the California people are going to put a lot of effort and money into repealing SB 777 and if they are successful, they will be little better off than they are now. The liberals will come right back at them again, and again, and again. Besides, most of the public school teachers are socialists themselves, and many already actively support the homosexual evangelization program on the local level. California’s only chance at freedom of education is to repeal the whole government school system.

Last February the Utah legislature passed into law the Parent Choice in Education Act. That made government education vouchers available to any public school student who wishes to transfer to a private school and any current private school from a lower income family. Utah spends about $7,500 per public school student, and the vouchers are for much less than that, from $500 to $3000, varying with family income. That could save Utah taxpayers about $5,500 per student who opts out of the public school system. Based on historical results, the private school students would do far better academically and socially.

As expected, this law was attacked en masse by the liberals. They have managed to get a vote to repeal the law on a Utah statewide ballot this Tuesday, November 6. They use their usual arguments that freedom of education will pull money from the public schools and will cause racial division. The system was set up so that it would not pull money from the public school system but from general funds, and the private schools in Utah are more racially mixed than the public schools are. The NEA, the National Education Association, the extreme left wing teachers’ union, has spent one and a half million dollars in Utah to urge voters to repeal the Parent Choice in Education Act. They have allotted another million and a half to spend there. Teachers unions in Maine, Colorado, Arizona and Wyoming have contributed money against the parents in Utah, and teachers’ unions from other states are joining in.

The Parent Choice in Education law in Utah was the first of its kind in the nation, trying to establish educational freedom in a nation which has freedom of the press and freedom of religion, but is in danger of losing both of those because it does not have freedom of education. Now the liberals are spending all out, trying to maintain their control so that ultimately they can do the same thing in Utah and all across the nation that they have done in California.

Utah has a privately funded scholarship program to rescue kids from the public schools. It is called Children First Utah. It makes funds available to low income students to enable them to attend private schools. They are only able to supply 15% of the scholarships requested. They have to turn down 85% of their applicants.

Any parent, including all those 85%, who wants to escape that left wing religious indoctrination can do so right now. You do not have to wait for a voucher law. Just pull them out and regain control of your family. Any parent who does not do this and leaves his children in the public schools is helping the homosexuals take over America, as they have done in California.