Legislation: California Bills: AB 1056 Analysis

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Too often, bill alerts and legislative bulletins tell you what a bill does, but not how it does it. CCF’s legal analysis goes straight to the source of AB 1056, and by looking at the text of the bill itself, shows how AB 1056 sexually indoctrinates children in the name of “tolerance.”

• To read CCF's legal analysis of AB 1056, scroll down.
• To read the text of AB 1056, click here.  
• Related bills (summary and analysis): AB 606 | SB 1437
• AB 1056 was vetoed on Sept. 27, 2006. 

SUMMARY: AB 1056 spends $250,000 in taxpayer dollars to promote transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual lifestyles under the banner of “tolerance education” in 10 school districts, thus creating a model “pilot program” for the rest of the state.

Mixing changeable sexual lifestyles with a list of traditional minorities and unchangeable characteristics, AB 1056 requires "tolerance" training to indoctinate students to accept and embrace "perceived gender" (transsexuality, transvestitism, cross-dressing, sex-change operations) and "sexual orientation (bisexuality and homosexuality).  This push to indoctrinate will be aided by county "human relations commissions" and "civil rights organizations" that support transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality in all its forms.  AB 1056 reads as follows:

In developing any professional development training on tolerance and intergroup relations pursuant to the program, schools are encouraged, prior to providing instructional materials to pupils and in order to integrate instruction on tolerance and intergroup relations, to consult with human relations commissions and civil rights organizations that are involved in addressing discrimination based on actual or perceived gender, ethnic group identification, race, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, sexual orientation, immigrant status, or association with a person or group with one or more of these actual or perceived characteristics. -- AB 1056 Subsection 60622a.

While this long list may seem benign on its face, the introduction of sexual lifestyles is the only new "tolerance training" AB 1056 would promote.  However, as will be shown, its real objective is to promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality into school textbooks.

• The California Education Code already requires teaching acceptance of different races and ethnicities.

Where “ethnic group identification,” “race,” “national origin,” and “immigrant status” are concerned, AB 1056 will not affect current textbooks or curriculum, which already requires positive portrayals of racial diversity.  The California Education Code currently states:

Instruction in social sciences shall include the early history of California and a study of the role and contributions of both men and women, black Americans, American Indians, Mexicans, Asians, Pacific Island people, and other ethnic groups to the economic, political, and social development of California and the United States of America, with particular emphasis on portraying the role of these groups in contemporary society. -- California Education Code, Section 51204.5.

• The California Education Code already requires teaching respect for persons of different religions and persons with disabilities.

Similarly, “religion” (also called “creed” in California law) and “mental or physical disability” are protected by by existing law, which states: 

No instructional materials shall be adopted by any governing board for use in the schools which, in its determination, contains:  (a) Any matter reflecting adversely upon persons because of their race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, sex, handicap, or occupation. -- California Education Code, Section 60044.

Therefore, the only substantive change that AB 1056 proposes is to train students to "tolerate" "perceived gender" (transsexuality) and "sexual orientation"  (bisexuality and homosexuality).  CCF’s analysis of SB 1437, another sexual indoctrination bill, shows how California's definition of “gender” and “sexual orientation” is based on the Penal Code, which states: 

(c)"Gender" means sex, and includes a person's gender identity and gender related appearance and behavior whether or not stereotypically associated with the person's assigned sex at birth [Transsexuality].
(h)"Sexual orientation" means heterosexuality, homosexuality, or bisexuality.” -- California Penal Code, Section 422.56.

2. AB 1056 will sexually indoctinate children as young as kindergarten.

AB 1056 authorizes sexual indoctrination "as part of the instruction in the history/social science content standards."  This means slipping in promotion of transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality in any "social science" teaching for students as young as kindergarten.  AB 1056 explicitly states: 

(d) For purposes of this article, the term "school" means any public school that provides instruction in kindergarten or any of grades 1 to 12, inclusive. -- AB 1056 Subsection 60621d. 

3.  AB 1056 pushes sexual indoctrination using taxpayer dollars.

While the other sexual indoctrination bills (SB 1437 and AB 606) don't spend additional taxpayer money, that's certainly not the case with AB 1056.  Relying upon the budget to appropriate $250,000 in taxpayer funds for a 10-school pilot program, AB 1056 socks it to the taxpayers to fund non-academic, sexual indoctination training for young students.  AB 1056 reads:

A school may apply to the department to receive funds pursuant to the program. The department shall select 10 schools to participate in the program and to receive onetime grants of twenty-five thousand dollars ($25,000) each. -- AB 1056 Subsection 60622a.

Implementation of the program is contingent upon funding made available for this purpose in the annual Budget Act. -- AB 1056 Subsection 60622e.

CONCLUSION

While AB 1056 claims it is only a temporary program that only reaches 10 schools (forcing sexual curriculum upon students there), it is actually the first step in forcing ALL schoolchildren in ALL California public schools to “tolerate” – that is, under the state’s definition of tolerance, to embrace and support – transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality, and even consider these sexual lifestyles for themselves.  Unless stopped in the Legislature or vetoed by the Governor, AB 1056 will set the precedent for accomplishing the same aim as SB 1437 and AB 606 – to sexual indoctrinate children as young as kindergarten to believe transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality are good and natural and to even consider these sexual lifestyles for themselves.