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Schwarzenegger Signs Centerpiece Homosexual Bill 8/29/2006 SB 1441 will deny state aid to any institution that won’t promote homosexuality. California Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Monday signed a bill that will punish any entity or program that accepts any state assistance unless it accepts homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality. It was the first of four bills aimed at the schools by homosexual activists.
“This isn't legitimate education; it's indoctrination on steroids,” said Jan LaRue, CWA's chief counsel.
Penny Harrington, CWA of California’s legislative director, said the new law could be construed to bar tuition assistance to any student for use at a Christian school. “The tuition is so high at private schools that families need everything they can get to stay afloat,” Harrington said.
Sponsored by lesbian activist Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica), SB 1441 says that “any program or activity” that “receives any financial assistance from the state” must give “full and equal access” to Californians without regard to “race, national origin, ethnic group identification, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, or disability.”
Pro-family groups, including CWA of California, had lobbied the governor to veto the bill, and are calling for people to ask Schwarzenegger to veto the other bills.
Here’s the relevant portion of SB 1441:
read:
11135. (a) No person in the State of California shall, on the basis of race, national origin, ethnic group identification, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, or disability, be unlawfully denied full and equal access to the benefits of, or be unlawfully subjected to discrimination under, any program or activity that is conducted, operated, or administered by the state or by any state agency, is funded directly by the state, or receives any financial assistance from the state. Notwithstanding Section 11000, this section applies to the California State University.
and ...
(e) As used in this section, "sex" and "sexual orientation" have the same meanings as those terms are defined in subdivisions (p) and
(q) of Section 12926.
(f) As used in this section, "race, national origin, ethnic group identification, religion, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, or disability" includes a perception that a person has any of those characteristics or that the person is associated with a person who has, or is perceived to have, any of those characteristics.
California’s constitution already bars any government aid to religious institutions for any sectarian purpose. Court rulings have established that charities or schools that accept state funding must use it only for secular purposes.
CWA’s LaRue warned that unless churches do more to oppose open assaults on traditional values, there will be more of the same.
“Pastors, do we hear your voices speaking out to save the next generation from being led into an immoral and unhealthy lifestyle? Some of you need to stop pretending that moral issues are only political,” LaRue said. “Stop hiding behind an illusory wall of separation between church and state and start speaking truth to government.”
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