The California legislature has passed a bill which only needs the governor’s signature to become law. This bill, AB 2567, seeks to create an officially recognized celebration in California schools of “Harvey Milk Day”, on May 22 each year.
Wikipedia describes Milk as “an American politician who was the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States”. He was a fierce advocate for homosexual rights who often used highly controversial tactics to advance his cause.
Whether or not you agree with the issues that Milk was fighting for, it is clear that the primary reason that this legislation is being passed is for purposes of social engineering. The entire purpose of this bill, despite the denials of its originators, is to teach school children to accept the LGBT lifestyle as normal. Agree with it or not, this kind of teaching does not belong in our public schools and amounts to nothing more nor less than indoctrination in one particular philosophical viewpoint.
More information about this issue and the text of the bill itself are available here:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/sexuality/harveymilk.asp
Please call and urge Gov. Schwarzenegger to veto this bill!
Moe Lane
PG DeFreese
Victoria Coates
Daniel Horowitz
Dan Spencer
Schwarzenegger is no terminator
izoneguy (Diary) Tuesday, September 23rd at 5:26PM EST (link)Schwarzenegger has crossed over. He won’t veto that bill.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
My objection would be that this is being imposed on a captive audience
civil truth (Diary) Tuesday, September 23rd at 7:43PM EST (link)It’s one thing to have a proclamation of May 22nd as Harvey Milk Day (so long as it isn’t a state holiday – we don’t need any more state holidays).
It’s another to impose this on school students, with an implied imposition of a gay-issues curriculum when the students are compelled to attend and have no say as to whether they wish to hear or participate. Especially when this is done by legislative fiat rather than by normal curriculum procedures.
Another social engineering project interjected into our children’s education.
The greatest evil…is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clean, carpeted, warmed, and well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voice. Hence, naturally enough, my symbol for Hell is something like the bureaucracy of a police state or the offices of a thoroughly nasty business concern. -C.S. Lewis
http://www.gmsplace.com/
The people of CA are getting exactly what they deserve.
mbecker908 (Diary) Tuesday, September 23rd at 8:07PM EST (link)You keep electing these pinheads. I can’t wait for the repeal of Prop 13 so your Reps can really take care of business.
You get no sympathy from Arizona. And don’t move here. We are looking at what it would take to build a big wall on the AZ border and man it with the National Guard. That would be the CA border not the one with Mexico.
I've heard these arguments against a holiday before
Reaper0Bot0 (formerly Han_Pritcher) (Diary) Tuesday, September 23rd at 8:12PM EST (link)Yes, I have. I wonder where?
American loves its trailblazers, though often in retrospect.
Is it “social engineering”? Inasmuch as it fosters the acceptance of one group of American citizens as they are by the rest of them, then yes I guess it would count. Horrible thought.
Vote your conscience, of course. I’ll do likewise (though not in California).
I’m a lying troll.
We're not all evil, mbecker
Elizabeth (Diary) Thursday, September 25th at 8:31AM EST (link)While the state votes consistently liberal in federal elections, you need to remember that given its size, there are still a lot of conservatives here. We’re home to the third largest conservative county in the country. On social issues this state tends to be split almost down the middle. That’s why you’ll often see the legislature pass socially liberal laws, followed by conservatives mounting a ballot measure campaign to try to repeal the idiot legislation.
Besides, if you really consider California to be lost, then rather than discouraging us Californians from moving, you should be encouraging us conservative Californians to move to your neighboring states of Nevada, Colorado, and New Mexico, which seem to not be retaining the conservative numbers of your state and Utah.
“‘You come of the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve,’ said Aslan. ‘And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth. Be content.’” — C.S. Lewis’ “Prince Caspian”
Liberal or conservative, Californicators
Achance (Diary) Thursday, September 25th at 8:37AM EST (link)move to escape the lunatic asylum and then immediately begin trying to re-invent it in the place they moved to escape it. The money for nothin’ and chicks for free expectations in CA seem pretty addictive.
In Vino Veritas
What Art said.
mbecker908 (Diary) Friday, September 26th at 9:05PM EST (link)And you are getting EXACTLY what you deserve.
I hear all the blather about conservatives and Republicans in CA but it’s all meaningless BS. The level of organization among CA Republicans is even less than the national party in DC. They even more stupid, more disorganized and more gutless than GWB and the Congress. And if you know anything about my opinion of GWB and the Congress you would recognize that’s going some.
Bottom line, I don’t care anymore about CA than I do about MA. Both states are the prototypes for socialist hell. And please, stay the hell out of AZ. We don’t need your money, we don’t want your – even conservative – ideas of governance or city planning. Move to Oregon.
Keep at it Elizabeth
Rich Chatfield (Diary) Wednesday, October 8th at 10:20AM EST (link)Its a shame that people can actually see schools as a field for sowing social agenda rather than keep it about education. in many ways, the shift of focus from education, is probably one of the biggest reasons why we have 44% of kids failing to graduate.
If people want to legitimize their choice of lifestyle, they should do in other ways instead of forcing it down the throats of children and their parents via a system set up for education.
Should this continue, more and more parents will pull their children out of public schools.
I will never vote for Mr. Schwarzenegger.
As a last comment, I recently was told by an angry gay person that they have every right to be accepted in american as anyone else… to which I relpied, “of course”. Whether anyone likes it or not, all Americans should be afforded those things, however schools and kids are not the battle field. Kids are not to be used as pawns to advance that agenda.
When gay people tell me that if I don’t like it, I can just take my kid out then and go start some other school, I get angry, because public schools are suppose to for education for all americans and not places that others can shove their social principles down other people’s throat.
O.o Benjamin Franklin – “Well done is better than well said.