In the next few weeks Californians will be inundated with media messages about the
importance of allowing same-sex marriages. Voters will see TV ads telling them that
homosexual love deserves “equality” with heterosexual love. Voters will hear radio
reports about how all gays and lesbians want is to have the same “rights” as all
married couples. And the main message that will be repeated is that allowing homosexuals
to marry will have no impact on your marriage or your family-so what’s the harm
in giving gays their chance to marry?
Although on the surface these arguments appear convincing, they don’t tell the whole
truth.
Homosexual marriage will have a direct, intrusive and damaging effect on your family.
Public Schools will teach that homosexuality and same-sex marriage are normal and
acceptable-and if you disagree, you are a bigot. Books like “Heather has Two Mommies”
or “Daddy’s Wedding” will be used to teach kindergartners about homosexual relationships.
When parents in Boston complained about an eighth-grade teacher instructing students
about gay sex, the teacher responded, “Give me a break. It’s legal now.”
Churches will be required to perform homosexual marriage ceremonies or face prosecution
under anti-discrimination laws. The California Supreme Court recently ruled that
medical professionals may not defer treatment to another professional based on
their religious objections. In other words, Christians and those with moral beliefs
must check their conscience at the door when they arrive at work. The same case
law will apply to churches. Pastors will no longer be allowed to refuse marrying
homosexuals based on their religious beliefs.
Businesses will be prosecuted for not participating in homosexual ceremonies. A
New Mexico photography company is being prosecuted for refusing to photograph the
“commitment ceremony” of a homosexual couple. The full force of the government will
used to make citizens publicly accept homosexuality.
Married couples will no longer be considered “bride and groom,” but “Party A and
Party B.” A young couple in Placer County wrote the terms “bride” and “groom” on
their marriage license, which was returned from the state as an “unacceptable alteration.”
A husband and wife are legally referred to now as Party A and Party B according
to the California government. By redefining marriage, every marriage has already
been affected.
The role of parents will be diminished. The family unit is already under assault
with no-fault divorce, acceptance of single parenthood, and nanny government usurping
the role of fathers. Homosexual marriage worsens this trend by giving government
approval to single-sex parenting. Children need both a mother and a father. By
approving homosexual marriage, government and society denies children their right
and need for both parents.
These are just a few of the negative, damaging consequences of allowing homosexual
marriage in our society. When you encounter a neighbor, church member, work associate,
or family member who says, “I’m not a bigot-and homosexual marriage won’t affect
me,” remind them of just how much it will impact their family and all families.
This is not an issue of bigotry, but of ensuring marriage isn’t redefined by four
activist judges. Wanting children to be raised by both of their parents isn’t bigoted
either. What’s truly bigoted is telling Christians, Jews, Muslims and other people
of faith that their beliefs must be silenced.
Five years ago, Eagle Forum of Sacramento began collecting information on subversive educational diversity programs across America, one in particular called Seeking Educational Equity and Diversity (SEED). Their mission statement is change. The silent transformation is done through a unique set of classes instituted to train teachers in unnatural diversity values and ideas and then return to the classroom and incorporate these concepts into all of their subject matter.
Their goal is to change the principles of common sense that our nation was founded upon, into a utopia world where all ideas, values, morals, ethics, lifestyles, religions, and cultures are equal.
In order to do this they must erase common sense principles based on Judeo-Christian beliefs, closely held personal beliefs such as pro-life, and a so-called “white” way of living (white privilege), which do not agree with them. This is happening in schools, businesses, and government and is having a profound negative effect upon our churches, traditional family life, and the stability of our country.
The destructive result of the past 20-30 years of this education is now apparent. The children, teens, and adults exposed to this education are now the citizens shouting loudest for Obama. Apathetic adults are charged with sudden enthusiasm for a man who promises them a quick fix for their failures and young people who see him as a rescuer for a way out of individual responsibility.
For those people who do not have computers, do not listen to talk radio, and/or have little exposure to the truth, they fall easily into diversity thinking through victimization, shame, blame and guilt. The outcome is diversity addiction that guides them down a road to loss of conscientious individual freedom.
But we believe there are enough of us left that are knowledgeable or borderline thinkers that can stop the programs. How? Letting our voices be heard.
Knowing your rights is very important for you do not have to compromise your stand when it comes to your beliefs. You do not have to attend diversity programs against your will in the work places. You do not have to have your child indoctrinated in public schools? Your representatives in government do not have to go along with diversity concepts that undermine our government, our American way of life, or the life of unborn children, the citizens of America.
If we continue to walk the path of unnatural diversity education, the revolutionary change will occur at an even faster rate than presently, for we will have more and more people educated in this way of thinking. It is addictive.
My book Diversity Addiction: The Cause and The Cure explains how this happens and how we can reverse things by understanding our rights and by doing simple things to stop this madness that has taken over America. Already we have a nation that is ready for an Obama or a Hillary, and if not now, will be in the 2012 election.
We can make a difference but only if we care about the future of our children and grandchildren and I find it hard to believe that you would not care about this. If an Obama or Hillary ever gets into office, we may never be able to reverse it.
Why? Because subversive education has changed the actual thinking of Americans and thus the positive change that came with Reagan after the Carter years, may not be possible after an Obama or Hillary type gets into office. The damage could be permanent and this great nation may very well cease to exist.
So we ask that you join us in this very important endeavor to stop enforced education diversity programs. Learn how to say NO to them. Join us on our march to common sense. There is hope that we can look at our country and know that it lies in our hands, not in the hands of those who want to change it into a foreign land that will be of no use to future generations.
By saying No to subversive programs, we point out the truth, which sets people free. To compromise America is poor judgment and makes no sense. Utilizing the tools of our forefathers is good judgment and makes common sense.
Help us use the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence to save this nation. There is a right and there is a wrong in life and to rob us of that, which has made our nation the greatest ever, is wrong.
Become pioneers in the rediscovery of our rights in the schools, businesses, and government. Join Eagle Forum of Sacramento by stopping educationally enforced diversity and begin planting the seeds of common sense.
September 12, 2008
by Phyllis Schlafly
The past two presidential elections taught the losing Democrats a couple of political lessons. They learned that attacks on guns and defense of abortion are no longer winning issues for them, and this new awakening is reflected in their 2008 Party Platform adopted in Denver. The Platform grudgingly states: “we will preserve Americans’ Second Amendment right to own and use firearms.” The powers-that-be in the Democratic Party have learned to tolerate a few pro-gun candidates. Feminist pressure won’t let the Democrats recede from their “proudly”-stated 2004 Platform position that “Abortion should be safe, legal, and rare.” This year’s Platform is just as pro-abortion, but uses slightly softer words, stating that the Democrats support “a woman’s ability to make her own life choices and obtain reproductive health care, including birth control” (throughout nine months and with taxpayers’ money, of course). Proclaiming that “we will end the Bush Administration’s war on science,” the Democratic Platform promises to “lift the current Administration’s ban on using federal funding for embryonic stem cells.” The genuinely pro-life Republican Platform calls for “a ban on human cloning and a ban on the creation of or experimentation on human embryos for research purposes.” The 2008 Democratic Platform stridently toadies to the feminists on all their issues. The Platform reaffirms support for the Equal Rights Amendment (which was declared dead by the Supreme Court 26 years ago), enforcement of Title IX (which has canceled hundreds of men’s college athletic teams, thereby costing us dearly in the recent Olympics), passage of the United Nations Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women (which would use a UN treaty to keep abortion legal), and the Violence Against Women Act (which puts a billion taxpayer dollars a year into the coffers of the radical feminists). The Platform reiterates the phony feminist slogan that “women still earn 76 cents for every dollar that a man earns.” That figure includes women who have spent many years out of the workforce and, of those who do have jobs, about a third work only part-time. The Platform promises to “expand” the Family and Medical Leave Act. “Expanding” means forcing employers to pay wages to employees who are on extended leave at times of their own choosing. The Democratic Platform goes all-out in recognizing the support of their gay rights constituency. “We support the full inclusion of all families, including same-sex couples, in the life of our nation, and support equal responsibility, benefits, and protections.” The Platform adds, “We oppose the Defense of Marriage Act.” Overwhelmingly passed in 1996 to prevent judges from forcing other states to validate Massachusetts’ same-sex marriages, DOMA was one of the most popular laws ever passed and it was even signed by Bill Clinton. Most of the Democratic Platform consists of promising benefits that will cost already burdened taxpayers aplenty. There’s no mention of how these extravagant handouts will be paid for. For example, the Democratic Platform enthusiastically endorses the incredibly extravagant worldwide handouts in the bill sponsored by Barack Obama called “the U.S. Millennium Development Goals, which aim to cut extreme poverty in half by 2015.” The Platform promises to “double our annual investment in meeting these challenges to $50 billion by 2012.” The Democrats’ mindset is that “we need stronger international institutions.” So, the Platform promises to “create a $2 billion Global Education Fund … with the goal of supporting a free, quality, basic education for every child in the world.” The Democrats want the government to take care of American kids from birth through college. “We will make quality, affordable early childhood care and education available to every American child from the day he or she is born,” and “we will provide all our children a world-class education, from early childhood through college.” The Democratic Platform is full of proposals to raid the pockets of John Q. Taxpayer and reduce the American standard of living. This includes “an economy-wide cap and trade program,” a plan to “reduce oil consumption by at least 35 percent, or ten million barrels per day, by 2030,” and designing legislation based on the belief that “global climate change is the planet’s greatest threat.” These expensive plans will require a giant expansion of government money and government jobs. The Democrats must have had this result in mind when they promised they “will make government a more attractive place to work.” There is much more expensive foolishness in the Democratic Platform, but the plank that takes the cake is: “we oppose laws that require identification in order to vote or register to vote.” That sounds like the Democrats are planning on winning the 2008 election by stuffing the ballot box.