A law firm says a new plan in the California Legislature to track charity by sexual orientation is fatally flawed because it links homosexuals with the disadvantaged.
The warning comes from the Pacific Justice Institute, whose chief, Brad Dacus, said the proposal from state lawmakers who just a year ago gave taxpayers a mandatory homosexual indoctrination plan in public schools originally would have demanded personal sexual orientation information about board members and employees of charitable organizations.
The organization said the public outcry as well as opposition from pro-familiy organizations to AB 624 prompted its author to delete “some of its most controversial provisions.”
But the plan that earlier would have demanded large charities disclose and post on their websites the race, gender and sexual orientations of their board members and staff still requires the collection and posting of race and gender information.
And it still requires that large charities “identity the number and percentages of grants awarded to groups directed toward or controlled by lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender persons.”
The bill already had been approved by the California State Assembly while it still included the more egregious provisions, but PJI said after the bill was spotlighted, and the organization sent a letter, some changes were made.
“We are pleased that some of the egregious, unconstitutional provisions of AB 624 have been removed,” said Dacus. “At the same time, this bill remains fatally flawed in that it equates politically powerful homosexual and transgender groups with programs serving disadvantaged ethnic and low-income minorities.
“The bill also needlessly injects new government mandates into the private non-profit sector with the goal of shaming charities into supporting the homosexual agenda,” he said.
The original plan appeared to target groups such as the Salvation Army, the Boy Scouts, Habitat for Humanity and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, officials said.
The original provisions had reflected its “author’s beliefs that charities need to be more diverse, and mandating the submission of data on the race, gender and sexual orientation of their board members, employees and grantees would be ‘an important tool’ in achieving that goal,” a PJI analysis said.
Meredith Turney, the legislative liaison for PJI ally Capitol Resource Family Impact, noted the measure is hugely “invasive.”
It also “promotes sexual orientation and transgender persons as a protected class” and could produce a devastating impact on organizations supporting traditional values, she said.
The original proposal officially had been supported in committee by the Greenlining Institute of Berkeley, the AFSCME union and La Raza, among others, officials said. Opponents have included the California Family Council and the Nonprofit and Unincorprorated Organizations Committee of the State Bar.
Dacus called it, “Another attempt to intimidate non-profits, to intimidate and isolate non-profit organizations that do not cave in to the pro-homosexual movement.”
WND previously has reported on California’s public school indoctrination program, approved by the California Legislature in last year’s session.
A new campaign assembled under the Rescue Your Child slogan is warning parents to do whatever they need to do in order to remove their children from the state’s public districts.
That’s because of Senate Bill 777 and Assembly Bill 394, plans that institutionalize the promotion of homosexuality, bisexuality, transgenderism and other alternative lifestyle choices.
“First, [California] law allowed public schools to voluntarily promote homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality. Then, the law required public schools to accept homosexual, bisexual and transsexual teachers as role models for impressionable children. Now, the law has been changed to effectively require the positive portrayal of homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality to 6 million children in California government-controlled schools,” said Randy Thomasson, chief of the
Campaign for Children and Families and a leader in the movement to withdraw what supporters pray will be up to 600,000 children from public districts in the state.
Officials said SB 777 “functionally requires public school instructional materials and school-sponsored activities to positively portray cross-dressing, sex-change operations, homosexual ‘marriages,’ and all aspects of homosexuality and bisexuality, including so-called ‘gay history.'”
The second bill, AB 394, “requires public schools to distribute controversial material to teachers, students, and parents which promotes transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, all under the guise of ‘anti-harassment’ training,” the group said.
