Virtue Magazine

There is a struggle: a struggle between those who fear God enough not to question His Word and those who do not, a struggle to see who will stand to see the other fall; who will, once all is said and done, end up on top. On both sides, there are individuals who are fighting hard. One such individual is a homosexual California State Senator…

Senator Sheila Kuehl has long been fighting the American morals that cancelled some of her TV episodes and deprived her of a promotion in favor of a man with less experience.

In 1959, 17-year-old Ms. Kuehl was a television star, playing the role of Zelda Gilroy, in the weekly television sitcom, The Many Loves of Dobie Gills, aired from 1959 to 1963. She was so good that CBS filmed four episodes of a spin-off titled Zelda, but this series was cancelled after rumors that their lead actress might be homosexual. Ms. Kuehl was also immediately expelled from her sorority at the University of California Los Angeles after the woman who was to be sorority president the next year found a few of the letters Ms. Kuehl had received from her “girlfriend.”

The rumors were true—Sheila Kuehl was a lesbian…and not ashamed of it. As a matter of fact, she was upset—wounded and angry. Ms. Kuehl carried her resentment with her to Harvard Law School, then into a successful law career specializing in Feminist causes, and now to the state house. She is currently serving a second term in the California State Senate, winning her seat in 2000 and again in 2004 after serving for 6 years in the State Assembly where she was the first openly homosexual person to be elected to the California Legislature.

Now, Ms. Kuehl is using her position to fight the “discrimination” homosexual teens face in public schools today. In February, she introduced a Senate bill (SB 1437) which will prohibit textbooks, instructional materials, and school-sponsored activities from reflecting negatively on transsexuality, bisexuality, or homosexuality. Instructional materials may not only say “a husband and wife,” but must include “two wives who are married lesbians.” Sex education classes would have to include information on sex changes, and would require textbooks and other social science materials to discuss contributions that gays, lesbians, bisexuals, and transgender people have made to the state and nation’s economy, politics, and society.

Though SB 1437 was not voted on before the summer recess, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has already said he would veto the bill. Ms. Kuehl said she still intends to approach him on the subject, however, once the bill sets sail in the Assembly. She said Schwarzenegger will come around to supporting the bill, once he “understands how small a change it is.”

Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families, a leading California-based pro-family organization, has a very different outlook on the passing of SB 1437: “We’re very pleased that Schwarzenegger is listening to the concerns of parents. Now the Governor needs to pledge to veto the two remaining sexual indoctrination bills, AB 606 and AB 1056. Parents and grandparents are demanding it.”

AB 606 is a bill which would give power to the California Superintendent of Public Instruction to withhold state funds from school districts that do not promote transsexuality, bisexuality, and homosexuality. AB 1056 spends $250,000 in taxpayer dollars to promote transsexual, bisexual, and homosexual lifestyles under the banner of “tolerance education” in 10 school districts, thus creating a model “pilot program” for the rest of the state. Hearing dates have not yet been scheduled for either bill.

“This terrible trio of bills would promote cross-dressing and sex-change operations to children as young as kindergarten,” Thomasson said. “Schools should be about academics, not about promoting alternative sexual lifestyles to impressionable schoolchildren.”

Whether these bills will pass this year or not, however, is not extremely significant. The fact that they have been proposed shows in what direction California is headed. If not this year, they will pass next year, or the year after that. California is just the beginning; the homosexuals aren’t stopping there. Legal challenges seeking permission for gays and lesbians to marry are now pending in eight states: California, Connecticut, Iowa, Maryland, Nebraska, New Jersey, Oklahoma, and Washington. The homosexuals are determined; Sheila Kuehl and her allies are fighting hard and they won’t take “no” for an answer. Will we?

Sources:
http://www.sacunion.com/pages/state_capitol/articles/8296/
http://www.savecalifornia.com/getpluggedin/sacbee_052406.php
http://www.inthesetimes.com/site/main/article/2688/
http://www.christianexodus.org/blog/2006/05/california-to-teach-schoolchildren-to.html
http://www.savecalifornia.com/getactive/alertmain.php?alid=10#1
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sheila_Kuehl
http://www.lambda10.org/L10archives/secret_sisters.htm
http://www.stateline.org/live/ViewPage.action?siteNodeId=136&languageId=1&contentId=20695