The wingnut failures are coming almost daily lately. Save California, the right-wing group attempting to repeal California’s anti-bullying legislation, SB 777, has announced that they are giving up in order to concentrate on fighting gay marriage. Via California Catholic Daily: In a June 21 email to supporters, Karen England of the Save Our Kids Campaign, the organization pushing the initiative, …
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HomoQuotable – Ben Patrick Johnson
“Dear colleagues at the Capitol Resource Institute, “I am a firm supporter of freedom of speech, and therefore I support yours, even if it in direct contrast with my own. However, we all use the media and the internet to spread our message: and with no hubris intended, I advise you — if you continue your efforts, we will BURY …
Read More »Hackers Crash Anti-Gay Site
WingNutDaily is claiming that pro-gay hackers have repeatedly crashed the site of Capitol Resource Family Impact, which is working to reverse California’s anti-bullying law, SB777. Staff members for a prominent pro-family organization that has been key to the battle against California’s mandated homosexual indoctrination programs for public schools are working off-site while an investigation is conducted into threats that someone …
Read More »Huge Setback For CA Wingnuts
In a stunning blow to California’s rightwing, an appeals court judge has ruled that parents who homeschool their children must have teaching credentials. The ruling arose from a child welfare dispute between the Los Angeles County Department of Children and Family Services and Philip and Mary Long of Lynwood, who have been homeschooling their eight children. Mary Long is their …
Read More »Shot For Acting Nelly
A 15 year-old high school student in Oxnard, California is it critical condition today after being shot by a classmate who taunted him for his feminine mannerisms and for wearing make-up. A student at an Oxnard junior high school shot another classmate Tuesday in front of two dozen other students who were settling into their first-period English class, police said. …
Read More »SB777 Battles Continue
WingNutDaily is claiming that 10% of California’s public school students may be leaving for private and home schooling due to the state’s anti-bullying bill, SB777. Only months after a new state law effectively banned “mom” and “dad” from California schools [JMG: It doesn’t.], a total of 600,000 students could follow because of what has been described as the “repudiation” of …
Read More »SB 777 Repeal Bid Fails
Wingnuts in California have failed to deliver the necessary petition signatures to challenge SB 777, the public schools anti-bullying law signed into effect by Gov. Schwarzenegger last year. “Save Our Children” needed to turn in 434,000 signatures by last Friday, but claims they could only find 350,000 people willing to sign their names to hate. Equality California Executive Director Geoff …
Read More »HomoQuotable – Sheila Kuehl
“When society tells a young person —- in subtle or, often, not so subtle, ways —- that they are less valuable, perhaps because of the color of their skin, their religious practices or the gender of the person they want to take to the prom, the whole society suffers. “When we mandate that every young person must go to school, …
Read More »War On California’s SB777 Continues
The Christofascists are really losing their shit over California’s SB777, the law intended to stop discrimination against LGBT youth in public schools. Schwarzenegger signed the bill into law earlier this year. From WingNutDaily: HOMOSEXODUS! Revealed: ‘Gay’ plans to target 2-year-olds 5th-grade students could be handed ‘Coping With Sexual Orientation’ Children as young as two years of age are in the …
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