A s one group attempts to use California public schools as laboratories to assist children in “coming out” with their nontraditional sexual orientation, another is urging parents to come out from these schools and educate their children with their values at home or in privateschools.
Last Sunday, a group called “Exodus Mandate” began placing literature in scores of Southern California church lobbies, urging parents to oppose attempts by activists and politicians to shape the worldview of young people into one that runs counter to what many taxpaying parents believe and teach in their homes and places of worship.
The final straw for some was the decision last fall by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger to sign SB 777. The California Student Civil Rights Act requires “nondiscrimination” against sexual orientation. Opponents take that to mean favorable teaching about homosexuality, bisexuality, gender identity and any and every other form of sexual expression.
The government schools want to shape a child?s mind in ways that reflect a mostly humanistic world view. This has implications for a child?s understanding of economics, foreign policy, American history and the size and purpose of government, in addition to “traditional values.” It is about reflecting the worldview of the teachers unions, who are in the pocket of the Democratic Party. In other words, the Left uses public schools to produce the next generation of Democrats.
The tragedy is that too many conservative parents who want their children to have a different worldview ? their own ? willingly participate in the destruction of their children?s minds by turning them over to a way of thinking antithetical to their beliefs. It makes no sense.
Cal Thomas is America?s most widely syndicated op-ed columnist and an author of 11 books.
