Homeschool News & Views

Issue 70, May 25, 2008

From Homeschool Helpers

In association with Pass It On Ministries

by Dan L. White

California is called the land of fruits and nuts. That title refers to the agricultural wonderland which is California. It also refers to the people who live there.

Because California is widely known as the land of fruits and nuts, and people expect Californians to do nutty things --

Many people think that what happens in crazy California doesn’t affect the rest of the country. That’s just California.

That is itself a nutty idea.

California led the trend to modern no fault divorce in America. California Governor Ronald Reagan, who had been divorced himself, signed The Family Law Act of 1969.

Notice the title of that law – the Family Law Act. The name makes it appear that the liberals were doing something good for the family, with no fault divorce. What they were doing was helping to destroy the family. They changed the legal view of marriage from a binding covenant which was not easily broken to a temporary legal arrangement which can be broken by either party at any time for any reason or for no reason.

One family court judge recently said, “It is easier to divorce my wife of 26 years than to fire someone I hired one week ago. The person I hire has more legal clout than my wife of 26 years. That's wrong.”

After California passed the Family Law Act of 1969, by 1983 all but two states had no fault divorce laws.

California took the family down, and was able to drag the whole country along with it. Reagan later admitted that signing the No Fault Divorce law was a terrible mistake.

Recently California has passed a law, signed into law by Republican Governor Schwarzenegger, which requires the teaching of homosexuality in all public schools to all ages.`

A resolution is being introduced into the annual Southern Baptist meeting in June condemning the California school system.

I quote from a Christian Post article of May 23:

“The resolution, authored by Dr. Voddie Baucham, Jr., a preacher and lecturer in the Southern Baptist denomination, and Bruce N. Shortt, author of The Harsh Truth About Public Schools, is a response to the recent enactment of California Senate Bill 777.

Baucham and Shortt claim that SB 777 indoctrinates students “to believe that the homosexual, bisexual, and other sexually deviant lifestyles are normal, acceptable, and the moral equivalent of biblical heterosexuality.”

“[W]hen these schools can hide behind stealth phrases like tolerance, safe schools, multiculturalism, and safer sex, parents are often unaware of the dangers lurking beneath the surface,” Baucham said in a statement.

“This resolution is an effort to shine the light of truth in the dark corners of our schools and force our brethren to take a long, hard, honest look at what we have tolerated for far too long,” he added.

In their resolution, Baucham and Shortt call for California parents to withdraw their children from public schools while pursuing safe Christian alternatives to education such as homeschooling. The resolution also urges local churches to unite against and inform their communities of the harmful effects of SB 777 while praying for the salvation of “all homosexuals and other sexual deviants from their sexual sin.”

"Homosexuals and others trapped in sexual sin need our prayers and concern, but Christian parents must make sure that their children are not being endangered by false teaching in government schools,” Shortt explained.

"Unfortunately, most of our churches and other Christian organizations have refused to acknowledge that children in government schools are being inundated by a cascading torrent of spiritual and moral pathologies,” Shortt added, emphasizing the importance of the resolution.””

We note two points there. First, they are calling for all California Southern Baptist parents to withdraw their children from those public schools and to follow Christian education. Resolutions have been introduced in the past in the SBC meetings calling for them to do that nationwide. Their leaders have always opposed and defeated those resolutions. This resolution is only calling for California parents to withdraw their children.

A second point they make is that most churches and Christian organizations have refused to face what is going on in the left wing schools, just as the Southern Baptists have refused to face it. Almost surely your church has refused to face it.

So California passed a law requiring the teaching of homosexuality in all their public schools. Will California lead the nation in that trend?

Almost surely. California is the most populous state. Because they made their public schools homosexual indoctrination institutes, they have now changed all the public school textbooks in America. The publishers know that California is their biggest market, and they know that California sets the trends, so pro-homosexual California is now controlling basically all textbook content in America.

California’s Supreme Court recently declared that California has to allow homosexual marriage, even though the people passed a proposition specifically prohibiting such. One of the people who made that decision is a man who is called a moderate Republican, Chief Justice Ronald George.

Will that decision affect the rest of the nation, or will that be limited to nutty California?

According to a study, a total of 1,260 decisions made by the California high court were copied by other states, more than any other state in the union. California’s Supreme Court is the most influential state supreme court in the nation.

Again I quote from a Christian Post article of May 20:

“Douglas Kmiec, a law professor at the Pepperdine University Law School in Malibu, Calif., emphasized that the California high court’s decision on gay “marriage” would have far greater impact than the similar decision by the Supreme Court of Massachusetts to legalize gay “marriage” in 2004.

“The way the Massachusetts court had interpreted its state law, same-sex marriage in Massachusetts was not available to non-residents,” Kmiec explained..

"In California, there's no waiting period, there's no residency requirement, and so yesterday's ruling doesn't just affect a single state with a very large population," he added.

"One of the principal effects of the California decision will be to create large numbers of same-sex marriages that will not only reside in California, but will migrate across the country," he continued. The migration of same-sex couples to other states could then spur the legalization of same-sex marriage nationwide, he explained.”

I will also add that under the US Constitution, all states agree to recognize as legal that which is legal in other states. For example, I got married in Arkansas and then immediately moved to Indiana, where my Arkansas marriage was recognized as legal. The homosexuals will go to California from other states to “get married.” Then they will try to force those other states to recognize that “marriage”, because of the US Constitution.

California is the land of fruits and nuts. It is now the leading edge of the sodomite society.

Surprisingly, it is so called Republican moderates who have greatly assisted this trend toward sin. They did not stand before the onslaught and became part of it. The battle line is always drawn between those who stand and those who do not. Those Christians who do not like the homosexual movement but do not stand against it are part of it.

The Southern Baptists are again introducing a resolution against the homosexual public schools. Can you do something like that in your local area? Almost surely your church does not oppose the homosexual public schools, because few churches do. If they don’t stand against the homosexual schools, then it’s your job to stand against that.