By Greg Burt
California wants school kids to chant to an Aztec god of human sacrifice.
SACRAMENTO, California — The state capitol has been overwhelmed this year with the number of harmful bills being introduced by California legislators. The California Family Council opposes 19 bills that either threaten the unborn, parental rights, freedom of speech and religion, or encourage racism, drug abuse, sex trafficking and assisted suicide.
The bills that the CFC supported this year to promote religious liberty, provide sex education transparency and protect children from sex abusers are dead or pushed off until next year. Most of the 19 bills that the CFC is lobbying against made it through the committee process in the legislative house in which they were introduced.
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And now over the next two weeks, 40 members of the State Senate and the 80 members of the Assembly have to vote on these and hundreds of other bills before the June 4 deadline, if they are going to survive and make it to the other legislative house for consideration.
Mandatory Ethnic Studies Courses for High School Students
AB 101 will mandate high school students take a course in “ethnic
studies” in order to graduate high school. The curriculum is infused
with Critical Race Theory meant to create resentment among non-white
students, and guilt and shame among white students. Lessons falsely tell
students to feel guilty for crimes done by long-dead figures with the
same color skin. The curriculum seeks to pit ethnic groups and those
with various sexual and gender identities against each other. It also
encourages teens to judge people not by the content of their character,
but by the racial or sexual identity group they belong to.
Editor’s note: The curricula encourages students to chant to Tezcatlipoca (see image), an Aztec god of human sacrifice.
Replace the statue of Father Junipero Serra
Last year a mob torched and pulled down a statue of Father Junipero
Serra, the Catholic priest credited with establishing the mission system
in California in the 1700s. Caving to the demands of the mob, AB 338
would remove a legal requirement to have a statue honoring the Father’s
work among the Indians. In its place will be a monument to Native
Americans that will highlight the devastating impact the mission period
had on them and the role Father Serra had in that devastation. CFC is
all for an honest portrayal of historical figures, but believes that
debate can happen without giving in to mobs that use vandalism to argue
their point of view.
Ethnic Studies in community colleges
AB 1040 would require each community college to offer courses in ethnic
studies at each of its campuses. As mentioned previously, Ethnic Studies
is a Critical Race Theory course of study meant to create resentment
and prejudice between students with different ethnicities and sexual
identities.
Gender-neutral section requirement for big-box stores
AB 1084 would punish companies with fines if they don’t create a
gender-neutral section for kids’ toys and clothing. The law, sponsored
by a gender-neutral fashion designer, would only apply to retail stores
with 500 or more employees and demand that the gender-neutral section
include a “reasonable selection” of items without any store signage
labeling the items for boys or girls. The first violation is $250 or
$500 for subsequent violations.
Require insurance companies to keep secrets from parents
This Planned Parenthood sponsored bill will force insurance companies to
hide from parents “sensitive” medical procedures given to their adult
and minor children. These “sensitive” services include abortion, sexual
assault treatment, drug abuse and mental health treatment, and cross-sex
hormones and sex-change operations. AB 1184 prevents parents from
finding out from an insurance statement that their child is receiving
services from medical providers like Planned Parenthood. In California, a
minor can get an abortion at any age without parental knowledge or
consent.
Constitutional amendment to eliminate the death penalty
ACA 2 would prohibit the death penalty from being imposed as a
punishment for any violations of law, even for the most heinous mass
murderers with overwhelming evidence of guilt. This bill would have to
be approved by a vote of the people.
LGBT Pride Month resolution
HR 51 & SR 39 are resolutions to celebrate pride in policies, laws,
and court decisions that reject God’s design for marriage, sexual
behavior, and biological sex. They also advocate for the passage of the
Equality Act, a federal bill that would mandate government-imposed
inequality and unfairness by requiring acceptance of a particular
ideology about sexual ethics, while leaving no room for differing
opinions and legitimate public debate.
Police lose jobs over “bias” acts
SB 2 would, among other things, redefine “serious misconduct” for which a
police officer might lose their job. The new definition states: “Acts
demonstrating bias on the basis of race, national origin, religion,
gender identity or expression, housing status, sexual orientation,
mental or physical disability, or other protected status in violation of
law.” Acts of “bias” is a very vague term and easily manipulable,
because it involves not just conduct, but speech regarding personal
religious, philosophical, or political views.
Office of Racial Equity
SB 17 would create an independent office of racial equity that would
develop a Racial Equity Framework to create policies and practices to
promote racial equity, and address individual, institutional, and
structural racism. The bill assumes all inequity in the United States
between racial, sexual orientation, or gender groups is the result of
racism built into the system. Though vague in details, the bill implies
that racial equity will not be achieved by supporting policies that
judge someone based on individual character and merit without concern
for race, gender, or sexual orientation. Instead, equity will only be
achieved with policies that give special preferences to individuals
based on the racial, gender or sexual orientation group they belong to.
Illegal drug injection sites
SB 57 would start a pilot program in San Francisco, Oakland, and Los
Angeles where centers would be set up so drug addicts can use illicit
drugs under medical supervision. The idea is to prevent drug addicts
from overdosing, but ignores the effects of enabling the devastating
effects of illegal drugs on the body, and the negative effects that
illegal drugs have on the health of the community.
Mandatory kindergarten
SB 70 requires a child to have completed one year of kindergarten before
that child may be admitted to the first grade. This bill violates
parental rights and assumes parents don’t have the wisdom to decide if
their child is ready for schooling or not.
Lowering penalties on drug dealers
SB 73 will end mandatory minimum sentencing requirements for many drug
offenses. This might be justified for non-violent drug possession
charges, but lowering penalties for drug dealers is not justified,
especially when they are selling substances like heroin and
methamphetamine that kill people and destroy communities. This is part
of Sen. Wiener’s plan to legalize all illicit drugs. Read more about his
plans here.
Forcing health insurance plans to pay for free abortions
SB 245 forces all private insurance policies to cover abortions with no
co-pays and no deductibles, despite the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services (HHS) determination that California was already breaking
federal law by forcing private health insurance plans to include
coverage for abortion. There would be an exception for high deductible
insurance plans.
Legalizes loitering for prostitution
SB 357 doesn’t legalize prostitution, but gets rid of a law that gives
police the ability to deal with obvious prostitution happening on
neighborhood streets. According to Los Angeles Sheriff Alex Villanueva,
the “underlying root” of the “loitering with the intent to commit
prostitution” law is to “target sex buyers who seek to exploit” women
and men. This law will harm police efforts to prevent human trafficking
from happening out in the open on any neighborhood street. The bill is
sponsored by the ACLU and authored by Senator Scott Wiener, both
proponents of legalizing prostitution.
Forces Boys State and Girls State to accept “non-binary” teens
SB 363 requires American Legion, who runs the Boys State conferences,
and the American Legion Auxiliary, who runs the Girls State conferences,
to only operate their civic engagement program for youth within the
Capitol and with public school districts if both allow pupils, who do
not identify as either male or female, to apply to either conference.
State legislators shouldn’t be forcing private organizations to give up
their beliefs about the biological nature of sex.
Removing safeguards from assisted suicide law
California’s assisted suicide law passed in 2015 had some safeguarded
added that the bill author, Senator Susan Eggman, now wants to remove.
First, SB 380’s sunset date of 2025 will be removed after only four
years of published annual reports by the California Department of Public
Health. The sunset date was put in the original bill to allow the
legislature to reevaluate the law’s impact using a decade of data.
Second, patients will no longer have to make two oral requests for
suicide drugs with a 15-day waiting period between requests as is
currently required. This safeguard was added to make sure patients
weren’t making impulsive decisions or being subject to coercion of any
kind.
Decriminalization of LSD and other hallucinogenic drugs
SB 519 will legalize dangerous psychedelic drugs, such as LSD, Magic
Mushrooms, and Ecstasy for those over 21. It would also eliminate laws
against the cultivation, transfer, or transportation of these drugs and
the paraphernalia used to take these drugs.
No picketing vaccination sites
SB 742 would, among other things, prohibit protest activities within 300
feet of a medical office or temporary location doing vaccinations. The
U.S. Supreme Court has already struck down a Massachusetts law that
created a 35 feet buffer zone around the entrance of an abortion clinic.
Peaceful protests and sidewalk counseling in front of abortion clinics
could be affected by SB 742, with abortion businesses like Planned
Parenthood now distributing vaccinations.
