CCF Special Bulletin: October 18, 2007
 How to protect children from the incoming sexual indoctrination in California public schools?
Not with a ballot referendum, but with a statutory initiative or a constitutional amendment, and by removing your kids from government-run schools
By Randy Thomasson, Founder and President
Campaign for Children and Families
Part 1 of a two-part message; includes practical help for California families to leave public schools behind
This CCF Special Bulletin was sent to email subscribers on 10/18/07.
"All real education is the architecture of the soul."
William Bennett, U.S. Secretary of Education (1985-88)
Sacramento, California -- Campaign for Children and Families has been somewhat overwhelmed with phone calls, emails, and questions from distraught and angry parents and grandparents since Oct. 12 when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed all the anti-family bills he could. (Schwarzenegger knew it was against the state constitution to sign AB 43, the homosexual "marriages" bill, which he vetoed).
The two worst bills Arnold signed are SB 777 (transsexual, bisexual, homosexual indoctrination of schoolchildren by requiring changes to all instruction and activities) and AB 394 (transsexual, bisexual, homosexual indoctrination of students, parents, and teachers via “anti-harassment” training).
> See the rest of the anti-family bills Schwarzenegger signed this year
> See 20 other anti-family laws Schwarzenegger signed in 2004, 2005 and 2006
In the midst of all the media interviews CCF has been doing, we've been responding to people who've contacted us to express their shock and deep concern about the school sexual indoctrination bills being signed into law, effective on January 1, 2008. Like you, they're asking what can be done. Get on the ballot and let the voters decide? Recall Arnold Schwarzenegger? File a lawsuit? Yank your children from public school?
Several hours of research have gone into answering these questions. Based on my 14 years of pro-family service in Sacramento, I'll do my best to tell you what will and won't work to protect California schoolchildren. Then, in another message that I'm going to email you next week, I will share with you why I think this disaster happened, what the root causes are, and what the big-picture solution really is. (If you're not currently receiving CCF Email Bulletins directly from us, please sign up for free here.)
Here's what I can tell you right now to answer your priority questions.
THE BALLOT
Would a referendum, or statutory initiative, or state constitutional amendment solve this problem?
There are three kinds of ballot measures in California: the referendum, the statutory initiative, and the constitutional amendment. At this time in California history, only a constitutional amendment or a statutory initiative are worthy of your support. Here's why:
A referendum on the ballot would be only be a temporary victory if it wins. You see, while the voters could reject and stop SB 777, a successful ballot referendum is a one-time deal. It only stops SB 777, but doesn't stop one or more school sexual indoctrination bills from coming back under a different bill number. Despite good intentions, a referendum -- "the power of the electors to approve or reject statutes" -- simply does not prohibit the California Legislature from passing the same school sexual indoctrination bill next year, the year after, or whenever.
Of course, pro-family Californians would feel good if a pro-family issue passed on the ballot. But that good feeling would quickly sour if the Legislature, despite the people's vote, re-passed the same bad bill or multiple sexual indoctrination bills within one or two years. This is a very likely scenario, given the anti-family Democrat politicians who have tight control of the California Legislature. With a referendum, you can only "hope" that the Legislature and the Governor will respect the people's vote. But there's no "teeth" prohibiting them from passing school sexual indoctrination all over again.
While a ballot referendum is definitely a rebuke to the California Legislature, it seems to have worked best in the past when state legislators saw themselves as true representatives of the people. But nowadays, many politicians -- especially the ruling Democrats who control both houses of the Legislature -- have a very high commitment to the homosexuality-bisexuality-transsexuality agenda, as well as to their "sacred cows" of abortion, environmentalism, and unionism.
Anyone who has worked in Sacramento for a long time knows the California Legislature has lost respect for the voters. In the last three years, Democrat legislators have repeatedly passed full-blown homosexual "marriage" license bills, saying that the people's vote in 2000 for Proposition 22, to limit marriage to a man and a woman, was "wrong" and "discriminatory." In addition, there haven't been many referendums in California in recent years, because a statutory initiative requires the same number of signatures to qualify for the ballot, but has much more sticking power.
Therefore, a ballot referendum is short-sighted and not a good idea to pursue. (For more specifics on the weakness of referendums, please see the end of this message.)
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