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‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ banished by California Law Signed by Liberal Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger because it is a term perceived as negative to gays

‘Mom’ and ‘Dad’ banished by California

Schwarzenegger signs law outlawing terms perceived as negative to ‘gays’
Posted: October 13, 20071:00 a.m. Eastern
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“Mom and Dad” as well as “husband and wife” have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose.
“We are shocked and appalled that the governor has blatantly attacked traditional family values in California,” said Karen England, executive director of Capitol Resource Institute.
“With this decision, Gov. Schwarzenegger has told parents that their values are irrelevant. Many parents will have no choice but to pull their children out of the public schools that have now become sexualized indoctrination centers.”
“Arnold Schwarzenegger has delivered young children into the hands of those who will introduce them to alternative sexual lifestyles,” said Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, which worked to defeat the plans. “This means children as young as five years old will be mentally molested in school classrooms.
“Shame on Schwarzenegger and the Democrat politicians for ensuring that every California school becomes a homosexual-bisexual-transsexual indoctrination center,” he said.

Analysts have warned that schools across the nation will be impacted by the decision, since textbook publishers must cater to their largest purchaser, which often is California, and they will be unlikely to go to the expense of having a separate edition for other states.
The bills signed by Schwarzenegger include SB777, which bans anything in public schools that could be interpreted as negative toward homosexuality, bisexuality and other alternative lifestyle choices.
There are no similar protections for students with traditional or conservative lifestyles and beliefs, however.
“SB 777 will result in reverse discrimination against students with religious and traditional family values,” said Meredith Turney, legislative liaison for Capitol Resource Institute. “These students have lost their voice as the direct result of Gov. Schwarzenegger’s unbelievable decision. The terms ‘mom and dad’ or ‘husband and wife’ could promote discrimination against homosexuals if a same-sex couple is not also featured.
“Parents want the assurance that when their children go to school they will learn the fundamentals of reading, writing and arithmetic – not social indoctrination regarding alternative sexual lifestyles. Now that SB777 is law, schools will in fact become indoctrination centers for sexual experimentation,” she said.
Also signed was AB394, which targets parents and teachers for such indoctrination through “anti-harassment” training, CCF said.
Schwarzenegger had vetoed almost identical provisions a year ago, saying existing state law already provided for penalties for discrimination.
“We had hoped that the governor would once again veto this outrageous legislation but he obviously decided to side with the out-of-touch extremists that control the legislature. This law does not reflect the true values of the average Californian,” said England. “True leadership means standing up for what is true and right.”
Thomasson said SB777 prohibits any “instruction” or school-sponsored “activity” that “promotes a discriminatory bias” against “gender” – the bill’s definition includes cross-dressing and sex changes – as well as “sexual orientation.”
“Because no textbook or instruction in California public schools currently disparages transsexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality, the practical effect of SB777 will be to require positive portrayals of these sexual lifestyles at every government-operated school,” CCF noted.
Offenders will face the wrath of the state Department of Education, up to and including lawsuits.
CCF noted that now on a banned list will be any text, reference or teaching aid that portrays marriage as only between a man and woman, materials that say people are born male or female (and not in between), sources that fail to include a variety of transsexual, bisexual and homosexual historical figures, and sex education materials that fail to offer the option of sex changes.
Further, homecoming kings now can be either male or female – as can homecoming queens, and students, whether male or female, must be allowed to use the restroom and locker room corresponding to the sex with which they choose to identify.
AB394 promotes the same issues through state-funded publications, postings, curricula and handouts to students, parents and teachers.
It also creates the circumstances where a parent who says marriage is only for a man and a woman in the presence of a lesbian teacher could be convicted of “harassment,” and a student who believes people are born either male or female could be reported as a “harasser” by a male teacher who wears women’s clothes, CCF said.
Thomasson said Schwarzenegger also signed AB14, which prohibits state funding for any program that does not support a range of alternative sexual practices, including state-funded social services run by churches.
Affected will be day cares, preschool or after-school programs, food and housing programs, senior services, anti-gang efforts, jobs programs and others.
Thomasson said it also forces every hospital in California – even private, religious hospitals – to adopt policies in support of transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality and opens up nonprofit organizations to lawsuits if they exclude members that engage in homosexual, bisexual, or transsexual conduct.
“It’s the height of intolerance to punish individuals, organizations, businesses, and churches that have moral standards on sexual conduct and sexual lifestyles,” said Thomasson, in response to the signing of AB14. “This is another insensitive law that violates people’s moral boundaries.”
The vitriol over the issue rose to new levels in its latest campaign.
As WND reported, a board member for the homosexual advocacy group Equality California verbally attacked and threatened CRI for its opposition to the bill earlier.
The board member sent an e-mail and video to CRI threatening the group would be buried if it continued efforts opposing the homosexual advocacy.
“The shocking hate mail we received shows that those behind this legislation do not promote true tolerance,” said England. “Only politically correct speech will be tolerated. Those with religious or traditional moral beliefs will not be allowed to express their opinions in public schools.”
She also cited an informational document published by the Gay-Straight Alliance Network and the Transgender Law Center that already is lobbying for special treatment in the school system.
“If you want to use a restroom that matches your gender identity … you should be allowed to do so,” it advises. “Whenever students are divided up into boys and girls, you should be allowed to join the group or participate in the program that matches your gender identity as much as possible.”
Further, the groups advise, “If you change your name to one that better matches your gender identity, a school needs to use that name to refer to you.” The advocacy group also warns schools against bringing parents into any such discussion with students.
WND has documented a number of earlier cases in which educators, including leaders in California, have taken it upon themselves to promote a homosexual lifestyle to children under their charge.
WND reported California Superintendent of Public Instruction Jack O’Connell, under whose supervision hundreds of thousands of children are being educated, has used his state position and taxpayer-funded stationery to praise a “gay” pride event used in the past to expose children to sexually explicit activities.
That drew vehement objections from several educators, including Priscilla Schreiber, the president of the Grossmont Unified High School District governing board.
“I am outraged that a person in this high-ranking elected position would advocate an event where diversity is not just being celebrated but where pornography and indecent exposure is being perpetrated on the young and innocent children of our communities,” she said.

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RINO Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger signs California state law barring landlords from asking tenants’ immigration status

State law bars landlords from asking tenants’ immigration status
By Juliana Barbassa
ASSOCIATED PRESS
6:26 p.m. October 11, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO – California is again forging its own path on immigration reform by becoming the first state to prohibit landlords from asking tenants’ immigration status.
Amid frustration over the federal government’s failure to reform immigration laws, cities across the country have taken their own action to keep out illegal immigrants, including barring property from being rented to undocumented tenants.
The law signed this week by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenneger elicited a sigh of relief among landlord associations concerned that without it, they’d be forced to take on the cost and the liability of enforcing federal laws as “de-facto immigration cops,” said Nancy Ahlswede, executive director of the Apartment Association, California Southern Cities.
“We have huge anti-discrimination obligations,” said Ahlswede, whose organization was among the legislation’s sponsors. “We understand the frustration, but that burden shouldn’t be placed on landlords.”
California has often staked new ground on immigration, whether with anti-immigration measures like Proposition 187, a 1994 ballot initiative meant to deny illegal immigrants social services, health care, and public education, or by hosting massive pro-immigration rallies and promoting trends like the “New Sanctuary Movement,” in which churches seek to protect undocumented immigrants from deportation.
The state has more immigrants than any other, and between 2.5 to 2.8 million of them are undocumented, according to the Pew Hispanic Center.
This latest law pushes against a national trend that finds tensions over immigration and shifting demographics increasingly being dealt with on a city-by-city and issue-by-issue basis. The law also specifies that landlords can’t, on their own, decide to verify prospective tenants’ immigration status.
More than 90 cities or counties nationwide have considered ordinances that aim to discourage illegal immigrants from settling by making their daily life more difficult. Those include rules forbidding renting to undocumented immigrants, punishing businesses that hire them or requiring police to ask about immigration status.
Proponents of immigration control view the California law as another attempt to block citizens from defending their interests in an area where the federal government has failed.
“It’s clear that Washington, D.C. doesn’t want to deal with this problem,” said Rick Oltman, with Californians for Population Stabilization. “You have cities that want to deal with the problem and this bill would stop them, making them powerless to deal with the illegal alien community.”
This view is reflected across the country. Hazleton, Pa., for example, has become a city whose name is synonymous with local action against unauthorized immigration.
Hazleton passed an ordinance last year penalizing landlords who rent to them and employers who hire them. The rule was struck down in federal court as unconstitutional. The city is appealing, and a hearing is expected in the spring.
California’s law “certainly adds salt to the wound for mayors who are trying to protect their legal residents and their budgets from the burden of illegal immigration,” said Hazleton Mayor Lou Barletta.
The mayor is hoping to take the issue to the U.S. Supreme Court, aiming for a ruling that would bring relief to cities around the country trying to follow the same path.
But organizations that have taken local governments to court on the issue argued laws asking landlords to pry into their tenants’ immigration status infringes privacy and discrimination statutes, and pre-empts the federal government’s authority.
“If the federal government wants to go after someone, they can do that, but a city can’t,” said Kristina Campbell, an attorney with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund, who worked on the lawsuit against Escondido, Calif., which also passed an ordinance punishing landlords who rent to undocumented immigrants.
The suit was settled out of court when costs ballooned, city officials said.
Generally, any proposition that orders those not trained in immigration law to determine whether an immigrant is in the country legally is fraught with potential problems, immigrant advocates said.
The law is complicated and a property owner trying to hazard a guess about someone’s immigration status could rely on someone’s looks or their accent, leading to discrimination, said Reshma Shamasunder, director of the California Immigrant Policy Center.
Greg McConnell, who has two rental properties and helped organize landlords in Berkeley to support the bill, said he’s just glad to be out of the cross-hairs of a “bitter and inflammatory” debate that’s much larger than they are.
“It’s not a question of where landlords stand on the immigration issue, it’s a question of who’s to enforce those laws,” he said

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/state/20071011-1826-ca-rentingtoimmigrants.html

Liberal Republican Arnold Schwarzenegger Offers Hillarycare Bill for Uninsured

Schwarzenegger Offers Health Care Bill for Uninsured
Tuesday, October 9, 2007 9:38 PM
SAN FRANCISCO — California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger on Tuesday unveiled his long awaited bill aimed at providing health care insurance to nearly 7 million people in the most populous U.S. state who do not have it.
The Republican governor’s bill will compete with plans proposed by Democrats who control the state legislature amid a special legislative session he ordered for lawmakers to tackle health care and water policies.
In addition to his goal of extending health care coverage to the uninsured, Schwarzenegger has said he aims to lower medical costs with legislation that would require individuals and businesses to have, offer or subsidize some form of health care insurance.
“Everyone is working so hard on this because what’s at stake is a health care delivery system that works for all Californians,” Schwarzenegger said in a statement.
“We have the best opportunity for comprehensive health care reform in 100 years because the more people study our plan, the more they agree with what we have been saying since day one: if everyone pitches in and does their part, then everyone will benefit,” the celebrity governor added.
Schwarzenegger said his bill advances the principles he said in January would guide his plans for extending health care insurance to an estimated 6.7 million uninsured Californians.
Under his bill, Californians would be required to have health care insurance. Low and moderate income individuals could obtain it through a subsidized state account.
Employers would be required to offer employees health care insurance and insurers could not reject applicants because of their age or medical history.
Small businesses that do not offer health care insurance would have to pay into a state account that funds it and proceeds from California’s lottery would help pay for it.
A major difference between the bill he introduced and the governor’s initial plan is that under the legislation doctors would not be required to pay a fee to help support a state account that would fund health insurance for the poor.
Doctors had complained about the initial fee plan and Republican lawmakers said it amounted to a tax.
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez in a statement said a “careful review” of Schwarzenegger’s plan could move talks on a compromise health care bill forward.
“I am pleased the governor will be putting his health care proposals into a bill that can be properly studied and evaluated,” Nunez said.

http://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/Schwarzenegger_health_car/2007/10/09/39513.html

California Braces for Socialist Health Care

California Braces for TerminatorCare
Thursday, October 4, 2007 9:51 AMBy: Rod Proctor
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger closes in on providing universal health care coverage to all of his state’s citizens. California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger appears to be closing in on what would be a rare achievement for a Republican governor: providing universal health care coverage to his state’s citizens.
One possible roadblock, however: State legislators in the governor’s own party are none too happy about it.
Following the lead of GOP presidential hopeful Mitt Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, Schwarzenegger appears close to striking a deal with a Democratic-controlled Legislature to make health coverage both mandatory and affordable for his state’s 6.5 million uninsured.
The Legislature passed a version of the plan in mid-September. Schwarzenegger vetoed it, however, citing higher-than-desired employer costs attached to his proposed $12 billion plan. But he then immediately announced a call for a special session of the Legislature to reach an accord.
Now it’s simply a matter of striking a deal with California Democrats.
“We have made tremendous progress on this issue during the past session and have found considerable common ground,” he said in his veto announcement. “That is why I intend to call a special session of the Legislature so that we can finish the job of truly reforming our health care system.”
Much like the Massachusetts plan, Schwarzenegger’s approach would include a mix of economic incentives and requirements affecting insurance companies, employers, doctors, hospitals, and individuals. It also would involve an increase in the state sales tax, a proposal likely to appear on California’s November 2008 ballot.
Schwarzenegger’s plan has received blistering criticism from California Republicans, however.
Michael Villines, the Assembly’s GOP leader, tells The Washington Post that the plan is a “one-way road to disaster.”
“They [Schwarzenegger and the Democrats] have to own it, not the Republicans,” he says. “They have to convince Californians that they are not taxed enough now.”
Similarly, Michael Cannon of the libertarian Cato Institute recently wrote in the National Review that the plan is a “thinly veiled shakedown that is both dishonest and emblematic of what ails America’s health care system.”
Centerpiece
“The centerpiece of TerminatorCare,” he wrote, “is a requirement that every California resident purchase health insurance. Though many call this an individual mandate, that’s just a fancy term for a sort of tax.”
Many groups that traditionally would oppose such government efforts have signed on to the governor’s plan, however.
In recent weeks, the California Hospital Association, the Los Angeles Area Chamber of Commerce, and the San Jose-Silicon Valley Chamber of Commerce all endorsed the plan.
Two major sticking points remain: how much employers would pay into the plan, and how illegal immigrants would be affected.
Both Schwarzenegger and the Democrats want children of all immigrants — regardless of legal status — covered under the plan, as well as all immigrants employed by the state.
The Democratic-controlled Legislature wants employers who don’t offer employee care to toss at least 7.5 percent of their payroll into a state fund that would help subsidize private health insurance. Schwarzenegger wants that figure capped at 4 percent. Many expect that gap to be closed during the Legislature’s special session, which convened in late September.
Assembly Speaker Fabian Nunez, a Democrat, is confident that an agreement is near.
“I think I see light at the end of the tunnel,” he tells the Post. “I think the insurance industry has got to take a haircut. The hospitals pay a fee. Employers pay a fee. Workers pay a share. And then we’re going to have to go out and hustle the voters for a sales tax to make up the difference.”
The chances of winning voter support for the tax appear to be good.
A poll by the nonprofit, nonpartisan Public Policy Institute of California found that 72 percent of residents and 65 percent of likely voters strongly support of the plan.
“We hope to have a bill very, very soon,” Schwarzenegger’s spokesman Aaron McLear tells the Post. “It’s just a matter of closing the last few inches.”
Taxes in California can be raised through only two ways: a two-thirds vote of the Legislature, which appears unlikely, or by popular ballot.
Opposition
Opposition from business groups that decry the cost to employers, and from consumer groups who don’t see the measure as going far enough, have slowed the bill. But the recent endorsements are expected to help ease the way to agreement.
This isn’t the first time Schwarzenegger has riled the base of his party. His opposition to efforts at blocking access by illegal immigrants to state services and embrace of President Bush’s immigrant worker plan had the party faithful heckling him during campaign rallies last year.
And on the contentious issue of gay unions, Schwarzenegger has for some time voiced strong support for full rights for domestic partners. As a result, observers see little new political downside for Schwarzenegger in the health care fight.
“I don’t think Schwarzenegger has ever been known as a lockstep national Republican,” Nathan Gonzales, political editor of the Rothenberg Political Report, tells Newsmax. “He’s never been someone who always agrees with the leadership of his party, so for him to take a different stance isn’t entirely surprising.”
University of Virginia political scientist Larry Sabato, who recently wrote A More Perfect Constitution: 23 Proposals to Revitalize Our Constitution, goes even further.
“The GOP is so unsuccessful in California that Arnold — their only big winner for many years — has enormous latitude to move toward the middle or to the left,” he tells Newsmax. “Republicans grumble, but are they really going to deny [anything] to the only guy who has been able to win under their party label?
“No doubt the anti-tax and anti-immigration factions of the GOP are unhappy with the governor, but they have little recourse at the moment.”
And Sabato offers a possible clue to Schwarzenegger’s motivations on this and other issues: “He’s governor of a liberal blue state, and his next political objective may well be defeating Democratic Sen. Barbara Boxer in 2010 and going to the U.S. Senate. So his health care proposal is aimed at the California electorate, and at the crucial independent voters he needs to have any chance at unseating a Democrat.”
Other States Working Health Care
Meanwhile, California is just one of many states trying to improve the condition of their health care plans.
Missouri’s Republican Gov. Matt Blunt recently unveiled a series of proposals to expand coverage to nearly 200,000 more people. Some 700,000 in the state are thought to be uninsured.
Blunt’s plan would phase in subsidized coverage over two years by seeking bids from private insurers to help fill the coverage gap.
The plan would be paid for by a combination of state taxes, special Medicaid taxes, and federal matching funds, the Kansas City Star reports.
Also, in June Missouri’s Legislature approved a measure to make it easier for employees to take their insurance coverage with them when they leave a job.
“This increases health insurance portability — employees can take their insurance policies with them from job to job knowing that their premiums will be pre-tax and that their employers can contribute to them,” insurance industry veteran Tom Rogala tells Newsmax. “This is the type of reform that other states should be considering.”
In a nutshell, Schwarzenegger’s health care proposal:
Requires employers with 10 or more full-time workers to spend at least 4 percent of Social Security wages for employee health care, or pay an offsetting fee to the state.
Creates a health care pool for those with incomes below 250 percent of the federal poverty level.
Requires all individuals to purchase health coverage.
Places a 4 percent fee on hospitals and a 2 percent fee on doctors to cover a rise In Medicare reimbursements.
Expands coverage to children in families with incomes under 300 percent of the federal poverty level, regardless of immigration status.

http://newsmax.com/newsfront/Schwarzenegger_healthcare/2007/10/04/38105.html

13 State Governors Tell Washington That They Need More Illegal Aliens!

Governors to Washington: We need more immigrants!
Texas Gov. Rick Perry and a dozen other state chief executives, including California’s Arnold Schwarzenegger, are urging Congress to rev up the immigration debate again.
In a letter today to the House and Senate leadership, 13 governors of both parties complain that their states are being crimped by a lack of highly skilled workers — a problem they say could be solved by bringing in more educated legal immigrants.
They write:
If states like ours are to remain world leaders in innovation and intend to continue to see the job growth that is so vital to our economies, we must keep our employers in our states and ensure there is a skilled workforce in this country to fill their immediate needs.
While wholesale immigration reform may not be possible in the 110th Congress, we urge congressional action this year that recognizes states’ immediate need to recruit and retain professionals in key sectors, while we continue to produce here at home the skilled workforce our companies need in the long term.
Specifically, the governors are calling for an increase in permanent legal immigration and a boost in temporary visas, known as H-1B visas, for highly skilled foreign workers.
Congress, of course, appears highly unlikely to restart the very contentious immigration overhaul debate — particularly as the 2008 elections draw ever closer. But the governors and others are gaming that lawmakers may be less leery about smaller, business-friendly measures such as raising the H-1B visa limit beyond its 65,000 ceiling.
Increasing permanent legal immigration may be a harder sell this year because it would immediately touch off a reprise of the Senate’s fight over what type of foreigners should be welcomed.
While Democrats, immigrant-rights groups and religious organizations were intent on retaining the current focus on family reunification, Republicans and business interests argued U.S. competitiveness would be enhanced by bringing in more educated, skilled immigrants.
The governors represent an interesting cross-section, with Republicans like Perry and Schwarzenegger joined by Democrats such as New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer, Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick and Arizona’s Janet Napolitano.

http://blogs.chron.com/immigration/archives/2007/09/governors_to_wa_1.html

Ted Nugent Goes Onstage with Two Machine Guns and Goes Off on Hillary, Obama and Arnold

Schwarzenegger: Let Independents Vote in GOP Primary

Schwarzenegger: Let Independents Vote in GOP Primary
The Republican National Committee has told top California party leaders they can change their voting rules to allow independents to vote in the presidential primary.
Party insiders say the change seems unlikely, however, given the GOP’s long-standing antipathy to the idea. The issue may come up at the state party convention in September.
Changing the rules could help a moderate Republican, such as former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, especially since California’s Feb. 5 primary may come early enough to influence the nominating contest.
Democrats already allow independents to vote in their presidential primary, and GOP moderates say they must follow suit to remain viable in California. Decline-to-state voters make up about 19 percent of the electorate and are growing, while registration in both major parties is shrinking. But GOP conservatives say only registered Republicans should choose the party’s presidential nominee.
The Republican National Committee has set a Sept. 4 deadline for state parties to finalize their voting rules. But RNC Treasurer Tim Morgan, a national committee member from Santa Cruz who is on the state party board, said the general counsel has told him that changing the rules a few days later during the convention would meet the deadline.
Republican Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger supports allowing independents to vote.
Currently, 42.5 percent of California voters are Democrats and 34 percent are Republicans.

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