Calif Gay History Referendum Faces Uphill Battle
At churches, shopping centers and schools in California, volunteers have started gathering signatures for a ballot referendum that would repeal the nation's first law requiring public schools to include prominent homosexuals and gay rights' milestones in school lessons.
They say the new mandate would inappropriately expose young children to sex, infringe on parental rights and silence religion-based criticism of homosexuality. Those are talking points successfully used by proponents of Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in California.
But so far, Mormon and Catholic leaders who spearheaded the Proposition 8 campaign have not joined the effort to put the gay history referendum on the June 2012 ballot, leaving less-experienced Christian conservatives to gather the more than 500,000 needed signatures by Oct. 12. One News Now
At churches, shopping centers and schools in California, volunteers have started gathering signatures for a ballot referendum that would repeal the nation's first law requiring public schools to include prominent homosexuals and gay rights' milestones in school lessons.
They say the new mandate would inappropriately expose young children to sex, infringe on parental rights and silence religion-based criticism of homosexuality. Those are talking points successfully used by proponents of Proposition 8, the 2008 ballot measure that banned same-sex marriage in California.
But so far, Mormon and Catholic leaders who spearheaded the Proposition 8 campaign have not joined the effort to put the gay history referendum on the June 2012 ballot, leaving less-experienced Christian conservatives to gather the more than 500,000 needed signatures by Oct. 12. One News Now
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Silence From Clergy On 9/11 Religion Ban
The silence of our so-called religious leaders in reaction to the ban of clergy at the upcoming Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony in New York and the ban of the word God at military cemeteries is deafening.
How long will Christians and Jews turn the other cheek? How many sermons ever mention the strong religious conviction of the majority of our Founding Fathers? If our priests, ministers and rabbis wanted sheep for followers, they got them. One nation under God? In God we trust? You tell me. –Joseph Dupont
Letter To The Editor/The Washington Times
The silence of our so-called religious leaders in reaction to the ban of clergy at the upcoming Sept. 11 anniversary ceremony in New York and the ban of the word God at military cemeteries is deafening.
How long will Christians and Jews turn the other cheek? How many sermons ever mention the strong religious conviction of the majority of our Founding Fathers? If our priests, ministers and rabbis wanted sheep for followers, they got them. One nation under God? In God we trust? You tell me. –Joseph Dupont
Letter To The Editor/The Washington Times
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