Coalition receives 500,000 petitions to repeal SB 48 mandating instruction about homosexuals

Statewide groups coordinate efforts to repeal SB 48, which mandates instruction about gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender “heroes” to California public schoolchildren as young as five years old.  The coalition has certified over 300,000 petitions with 200,000 still to be reviewed.

According to the website StopSB48.com, the new law does not allow children to opt out of the mandatory instruction about homosexuals.   In addition, it would “force some public school educators to go against their own deeply held religious and moral beliefs . . .” 

The coalition is “optimistic” about receiving the required number of signatures to get the repeal on the 2012 California ballot, but warns, “if we fail, the law goes into effect on January 1, 2012.

Spread the word.   If you live in California, here's what StopSB48.com urges:

•Pray that we collect enough petitions for the repeal of SB 48 to make it on the 2012 ballot

•Sign the petition, following instructions carefully so that it is counted as valid

•Encourage your friends and family to visit StopSB48.com and sign the petition

Collect petitions and turn them into Calvary Chapel Chino Hills ASAP (10-10-11 deadline)

For extra motivation, read Daniel Villarreal’s post on Queerty:  “Can we please just start admitting that we do actually want to indoctrinate kids?” 

West Point Catholic chapel says no to gender-segregated weddings, upholds gender-integrated marriage

Director of public affairs and media relations for the Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, Taylor Henry says there will be no weddings for unigender couples at the Catholic Chapel of the Most Holy Trinity at West Point according to a cnsnews report.  “The Catholic Church does not perform the sacrament of matrimony for same-sex couples,” Henry said.

Taylor Henry is also the spokesman for Archbishop Broglio who is in charge of certifying all Catholic chaplains for the military.  The archbishop pointed out that last week’s new directive from the defense department allowing military chaplains to perform same-sex weddings in military chapels thwarts federal law.  Although purporting to adhere to the law of the land, the instructions are actually in direct opposition to federal law itself, the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA.)

Broglio criticized the new policy:

“Undersecretary Stanley cannot say, on the one hand, that chaplains may take part in any private ceremony as long as it is ‘not prohibited by applicable state and local law,’ and on the other, say nothing of the federal law. 

“Nor can DOD's General Counsel say that determinations regarding use of military facilities should be made on a 'sexual-orientation neutral basis, provided such use is not prohibited by applicable state and local laws' while neglecting to take DOMA into account."

 Not content with meddling with healthcare, big banks, and the auto industry, is the Obama administration trying to take over religion as well?  

Lesbian parents defend their decision to transition their adopted son’s gender

Lesbian parents Pauline Moreno and Debra Lobel defended their decision to transition their adopted child from boy to girl.  Moreno noted that over half of transgender youth attempt suicide by age twenty.  Moreno and Lobel hoped to reduce this risk by transitioning their son at the early age of eight.  Now age eleven, he is receiving hormone-blocking drugs. 

The Daily Mail reports, “Thomas Lobel, who calls himself Tammy, is undergoing controversial hormone blocking treatment in Berkeley, California to stop him going through puberty as a boy.”

The accompanying CNN video report on Gender Identity Disorder begins with Tammy saying, “I think she thinks that I’m a girl.”

Her mother responds, “I think you look like a girl.  I think you are a girl . . . When you were an infant, to you, you looked like a girl.”

Tammy’s parents say they take their cues from her.  She is the one leading.  At 5:10 on the video the mothers explain:

“Tammy leads the way.”
“Yeah, she’s the one we listen to.”
“We have to allow Tammy to lead the way because we’re not transgender.”

Leading.  Isn’t that what parents are for?

Read more:

http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/secondhandsmoke/2011/09/30/human-experimentation-the-real-issue-in-stopping-gender-variant-boys-puberty/

http://www.nomblog.com/14369/comment-page-1/#comment-68660

‘Gay marriage’ subverts gender, parenting, and marriage

Tasmanian State Director Mark Brown considers the recently passed “marriage equality” motion an attack on gender.  Lifesitenews reports:

“It’s not only changing the definition of marriage, it's changing the definition of what parenting is,” Tasmanian State Director Mark Brown told 6PR’s Howard Sattler. “It’s saying gender doesn’t matter in the life of a child and how it is raised.”

Tasmania is the first Australian parliament to pass a motion supporting gender-segregated marriage.  Calling it “marriage equality,” the motion passed 13-9 on September 21.

Posed as an inclusive option for people with same-sex attraction, in reality the gay marriage movement attacks people in their very core.  Gay marriage says gender itself is unimportant.

Apparently they forget that we are born that way.

Mexico City considers expiration date for marriage

Anyone up for a marriage that expires automatically after two years?  Mexico City proposes a marriage law that reduces "happy ever after" to two years.

Back in 2009, Mexico City officials catered to people with same-sex attraction by legalizing gender-segregated marriage.  Now it appeals to the commitment-phobic by proposing an automatic expiration date on marriage licenses.

Reuters reports:

“The proposal is, when the two-year period is up, if the relationship is not stable or harmonious, the contract simply ends," said Leonel Luna, the Mexico City assemblyman who co-authored the bill.

Who knew that true love has a two-year expiration date?

Mexico has the second largest Catholic population in the world.  Church leaders there call this idea “absurd.”

“It contradicts the nature of marriage," said Hugo Valdemar, spokesman for the Mexican archdiocese. "It's another one of these electoral theatrics the assembly tends to do that are irresponsible and immoral."

After removing the gender diversity requirement and the "til death do we part" clause, what's next?  Will society change the age requirement?  Will the word “marriage” become so malleable that eventually it will mean anything?  Will we call hooking up for the night a marriage?

If we keep redefining marriage, it will wind up meaning nothing.