Stefani Germanotta, aka Lady Gaga |
Lady Gaga, a "persona derived from her unique, androgynous, vintage-themed fashion sense"; "celebrated" cartoonist Alison Bechdel, who is famous for "Dykes To Watch Out For"; and Rita Mae Brown, author of the "lesbian-themed novel "Rubyfruit Jungle," soon could become role models in California schools.
That's according to an organization that sought unsuccessfully to bring before voters a new state law requiring that all schools portray homosexuals, transgenders, lesbians and others who have chosen alternative sexual lifestyles as positive role models.
The Pacific Justice Institute was among the organizations that worked to collect nearly half a million signatures that would have put the state's newly adopted SB48 on the next election ballot. They fell short by a few tens of thousands.
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That means SB48 will take effect on Jan. 1, 2012, as was scheduled by the Democrats who approved it in the state Legislature. The law requires that schools uphold people with alternative sexual lifestyles as positive role models.
"Many parents have been left wondering what to expect from the new LGBT history mandates," the organization said today. "They don't have to look far."
A few schools are already celebrating October as "LGBT History Month," the Pacific Justice Institute said. A website devoted to the cause, www.lgbthistorymonth.com, offers a preview of the types of figures LGBT activists will seek to celebrate for their historical contributions, the institute reported.
"The site highlights one person for each day of the month for a total of 31. While a few notable composers and authors are featured this year, such as Aaron Copland, Langston Hughes and Virginia Woolf, the list is dominated by current celebrities and virtual unknowns that strain the definition of 'historical.'"
The organization said that prominently featured on this year's list of 'icons' are entertainers Lady Gaga and Ricky Martin, comedienne Wanda Sykes and tennis player Amelie Mauresmo.
"Lesser-known 'icons' include lesbian rabbi Denise Eger and transgender Alameda County Superior Court Judge Victoria Kolakowski, neither of whom appear to have yet achieved any lasting recognition apart from their sexual orientation," the institute said.
"What we are already seeing from the promoters of LGBT History Month confirms many of our concerns about SB48," said Brad Dacus, president of Pacific Justice Institute. "Most parents do not consider Lady Gaga to be either historical or a role model. We cannot afford to waste precious educational time and resources focusing on celebrities who may have contributed to society to some degree but are simply do not qualify as great historical figures."
Brown and Bechdel are among those celebrated as "historical figures."
There's also:
- Kye Allums, the first openly transgender athlete to play NCAA Division I college basketball. In the first year, Allums played 11 games and missed 20, then started 20 of 26 games as a sophomore and none as a junior, then dropped out of the basketball program.
- John Ashbery, who won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for poetry and was the executive editor of ARTNews. His poem "Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror" also won the National Book Award and National Critics Circle Award.
- John Berry, appointed in the Obama administration to the Office of Personnel Management.
- Dustin Black, who was honored for his screenplay for "Milk," the movie about the homosexual San Francisco politician and reported sexual predator Harvey Milk.
- Keith Boykin, political commentator and editor of The Daily Voice. He worked on the Dukakis presidential campaign as well as Bill Clinton's march to the White House.
- Dan Choi, a West Point graduate who went on nationwide television in 2009 to announce he is homosexual, prompting the Army to remove him from the ranks.
- Aaron Copland, composer, teacher and conductor.
- Alan Cumming, actor who has appeared in more than 100 films and TV series.
- Denise Eger, "gay" rabbi.
- Michael Guest, homosexual U.S. ambassador who quit the State Department.
- Daniel Hernandez Jr., Langston Hughes, Frida Kahlo, David Kato, Michael Kirby, Victoria Kolakowski, Dave Kopay, Ricky Martin, Amelie Mauresmo and others
The website also offers various resources about how to "share your celebration" and posters promoting the alternative sexual lifestyles.
SB48 plan was pushed through the Democrat-controlled state legislature and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown.
The Pacific Justice Institute was part of the coalition working on the belief that such a dramatic imposition on public schools should go before voters.
The law requires schools to teach "gay" and "lesbian" involvement in history but only from a positive perspective. It bans any statement, fact or information that would reflect "adversely" on those who choose an alternative sexual lifestyle.
At the RescueYourChild.com website, Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, outlined the other laws in California that also advance the agenda:
- SB 543, signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2010, "allows school staff to remove children ages 12 and up from government schools and taken off-campus for counseling sessions, without parental permission or involvement. The purpose is to permit pro-homosexuality teachers and administrators to remove sexually confused children in 6th grade and up from campus and take them to pro-homosexuality counselors who will encourage them to embrace the homosexual lifestyle."
- ACR 82, approved by the California Legislature in 2010, "creates de facto 'morality-free zones' at participating schools (pre-kindergarten through public universities). Schools that become official 'Discrimination-Free Zones' will 'enact procedures' (including mandatory counseling) against students from pre-kindergarten on up who are accused of 'hate,' 'intolerance,' or 'discrimination'." What is the hate? Peacefully speaking or writing against the unnatural lifestyles choices of homosexuality and bisexuality.
- SB 572, signed by Schwarzenegger in 2009, establishes "Harvey Milk Day" in K-12 California public schools and community colleges. In classrooms, schools and school districts that participate, children will now be taught to admire the life and values of late homosexual activist and teen predator Harvey Milk of San Francisco the month of May.
- SB 777, signed by Schwarzenegger in 2007, prohibits all public school instruction and every school activity from "promoting a discriminatory bias" against (effectively requiring positive depictions of) transsexuality, bisexuality and homosexuality to schoolchildren as young as five years old. SB 777 means children will be taught their "gender" is a matter of choice.
- AB 394, signed by Schwarzenegger in 2007, effectively promotes transsexual, bisexual and homosexual indoctrination of students, parents and teachers via "anti-harassment" and "anti-discrimination" materials, to be publicized in classrooms and assemblies, posted on walls, incorporated into curricula on school websites, and distributed in handouts to take home.
- SB 71, signed by Gov. Gray Davis in 2003 and implemented in 2008 through the new "sexual health" standards approved by appointees of Schwarzenegger and State Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, teaches children as young as 5th grade that any consensual sexual behavior is "safe" as long as you "protect" yourself with a condom, and teaches children that homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality is "normal."
- AB 1785, signed by Davis in 2000, required the California State Board of Education to alter the state curriculum frameworks to include and require "human relations education" for children in K-12 public schools, with the aim of "fostering an appreciation of the diversity of California’s population and discouraging the development of discriminatory attitudes and practices," according to the state legislative counsel's digest.
- AB 537, signed by Davis in 1999, permits teachers and students to openly proclaim and display their homosexuality, bisexuality or transsexuality, even permitting cross-dressing teachers, school employees and student on campus, in classrooms, and in restrooms.
Homosexual former San Francisco leader Harvey Milk |
SB48 takes the state even a step beyond its demand that students in public schools every year honor Harvey Milk, a homosexual activist and reported sexual predator, as well as an advocate for Jim Jones, leader of the massacred hundreds in Jonestown, Guyana.
In honoring Milk, schools are advocating for the acceptance of what Milk sought: the entire homosexual, bisexual and cross-dressing agenda; a refusal to acknowledge sexually transmitted diseases spread by the behavior; his behavior as "a sexual predator of teenage boys, most of them runaways with drug problems"; advocacy for multiple sexual relationships at one time; and "lying to get ahead"; according to SaveCalifornia.com, a leading statewide pro-family organization promoting moral virtues for the common good.
A 1982 biography of Milk tells of a 16-year-old named McKinley, who "was looking for some kind of father figure."
"At 33, Milk was launching a new life, though he could hardly have imagined the unlikely direction toward which his new lover would pull him," the book says.
It also states, "It would be to boyish-looking men in their late teens and early 20's that Milk would be attracted for the rest of his life."
The consequences of refusing to accept the state's beliefs about homosexuality can be devastating, SaveCalifornia documents.
Thomasson said in a report that he got an email from a parent whose daughter had objected to attending a "gay straight alliance rally to honor Harvey Milk at Moreno Valley High School."
Said the email, according to Thomasson, "You were right our daughter was told she had to attend a gay straight alliance rally to honor Harvey Milk. … She shared she was a christian with the teacher and only after she saw Lauren was clearly upset about going to this rally did she issue her a hall pass. She was persecuted by another student but made it out of the class. I picked up her and she was very upset. How many other Christians were forced to go to this rally?"
The account from 16-year-old Lauren provided more details, Thomasson reported.
"When she walked into her U.S. History class Monday, May 23, she saw the words 'Gay-Straight Alliance Assembly – Harvey Milk' on the blackboard. Her teacher, obviously a pro-homosexuality agenda sympathizer, told Lauren and every other student walking in to go to the assembly. Lauren protested, but the teacher didn't listen to her at first. Lauren again said she didn't want to go, and finally the teacher exempted her, but only her," he said.
"Lauren got out of that one, but her fellow students were corralled into the brainwashing assembly, like cattle going to slaughter, where the homosexual sponsor of the on-campus Gay-Straight Alliance told them how they must support the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda of Harvey Milk. Later, a Muslim classmate told Lauren she wished she had refused to go to the assembly, too."
The report described how the teacher, several days earlier, had "played several minutes of the R-rated Milk film, which showed two homosexual men in bed together."
"Parents, realize there was NO advance parental notification of this happening or the opportunity to opt out your children. Even more, realize there was no parent permission sought, no opt-in form to sign. No, Harvey Milk sexual indoctrination, and other sexual indoctrination implemented, because of other perverse laws are being done behind parents' backs and despite parents' objections," Thomasson's report said.
WND previously reported what happened to one irate parent who found out about a public school's sexual indoctrination of his children and demanded changes – he spent the night in jail.
David Parker, who brought a case against Estabrook Elementary school in Lexington, Mass., several years ago, eventually ended up withdrawing his children from the school because of the harassment they endured in the dispute.
An appellate court said the indoctrination was appropriate because same-sex "marriages" are legal in Massachusetts following the work of former Gov. Mitt Romney and others, and the refusal of the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene.
That left the school district not only teaching behaviors the Parker family considered immoral but deliberately refusing to tell them when it would be taught, so they could keep their children home.
Parker noted the ruling says teachers "have a constitutional right to coercively indoctrinate little children [into whatever they choose to teach]."
A WND/Wenzel Strategies poll just weeks ago indicated an overwhelming majority of Americans believe elementary school is no place to promote the homosexual lifestyle. Even among liberals there is the strong belief that such lessons should be left outside the door of the classroom.
"Whether they object on moral grounds or simply out of concern that many U.S. schools are failing in their core missions of teaching basics doesn't really matter – the vast majority of American adults want this type of curriculum kept out of the classroom," Wenzel chief Fritz Wenzel said.
The scientific telephone survey was done April 19-21 with a margin of error of 3.23 percentage points. It found that 65 percent of all respondents objected to teaching elementary school children that homosexuality is a "normal alternative lifestyle."
The question was, "Do you believe elementary school children should be taught that homosexuality is a normal alternative lifestyle?"
Only 22 percent said yes, and 13 percent were unsure.