Recommended Action

Please help stop SB 1437, which would mandate that our public schools indoctrinate our children that homosexuality, bi-sexuality and transgenderism are normal and acceptable behaviors and lifestyles. (See brief summary and analysis below)

Even though SB 1437 passed the Senate by a 22-15 vote, we are making progress in our efforts to stop this outrageous legislation. You can help by e-mailing all of the members of the Assembly who have e-mail addresses and the governor expressing your opposition to this bill. It takes just a couple of minutes and you can send all of them with a single click of your mouse.

You can help even more by spreading the word. As more and more California parents and grandparents the pressure against this outrageous bill is growing. You can fill in the names of others on your e-mail list below and the suggested message will be sent to them in your name.

Time is short! Please act now!

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Brief Background and Analysis

Summary of SB 1437

SB 1437 - Changes the State Education code "relating to prohibited instruction" and adds a radical sexual orientation indoctrination program.

This bill would prohibit schools from doing anything that can in any way be considered as adversely reflecting on any individual based on their perceived "gender" or "sexual orientation." Included would be any curriculum, text books or school sponsored activities. The term "gender" is defined as "real or perceived" and "sexual orientation" is not well defined. As a result, the schools would be forced to teach school children that all forms of sexual behavior are normal and acceptable, that gender is not important in raising children, that all forms of "family" are equal and that gender is not physically defined but merely a "social construct." This will not only undermine the prevailing norms and values of society generally but also the values and religious teaching many parents are attempting to instill in their children.

What this bill would do:

If SB 1437 passes, the result will be that our schools will be converted into institutions of sexual indoctrination of our children, not educational institutions. There is no way of knowing how broadly the courts or school administrations would interpret the legal requirement in this bill that nothing the school teachers or sponsors can “reflect adversely” on any homosexual, bi-sexual or transgender person,. However, it is certain that there will be no presentation of the essential facts about the health and other risks related to these behaviors and lifestyles.

For example, we know from social science research that being raised by both a father and a mother is essential to the best interests of children. We know that homosexual behavior is highly risky and results in a much shorter average life expectancy. Yet, if these bills pass, schools would essentially be prohibited from presenting well documented research and other factual information like this.

It is completely inappropriate for our legislature to pass legislation like this that presents only these radical and minority views and imposes this sexual indoctrination on our children. Certainly, the legislature should not be micro-managing the curriculum by requiring that textbooks and lessons highlight the sexual behaviors of key figures in California and United States history as this bill would require.

Our children are not orphans or wards of the state. We, as parents, must be the ones decide what their social and sexual education should be.

The only way we can protect our children and the integrity of the educational process is to defeat SB 1437. PLEASE DO WHATEVER YOU CAN TO HELP!