Okay, when you think you’ve heard it all. A bill to approve a “Gay Day” celebration in Public Schools? What? are the gay people heroes now? I believe in equal treatment for all, but this is going well beyond equal treatment. This is forcing the world to pay recognition to a group of people that have done nothing remarkable to earn it. And force it upon our children in the Public schools? The first thing that comes to mind is who in the world is proposing this kind of nonsense? And don’t they have anything better to do in the Senate than to come up with these ridiculous ideas? Well, I did a little research as follows:

Lead Author of AB 2567 : Assemblymember Mark Leno. Bio:

Elected to the Assembly in 2002, Assemblyman Mark Leno represents the 13th District, which encompasses the eastern portion of San Francisco. He is one of the first openly gay men ever elected to the Assembly.

He currently chairs the Assembly Appropriations Committee, which oversees all bills with a fiscal impact on the state. He also serves on the Election & Redistricting and Labor Committees, as well as the Public Safety Committee, which he chaired through 2006. Prior to his election to the Assembly, Leno served on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors from April 1998 to November 2002.

In 2007, Leno is continuing his pioneering battle for equal rights for LGBT couples and their families by introducing AB 43, the Religious Freedom and Civil Marriage Protection Act. This historic civil rights legislation would allow same sex couples to marry in California. In 2005, Leno’s nearly identical AB 849 was the first marriage equality bill in United States history to be approved by both houses of a state legislature.

Sponsor: Equality California (EQCA)

Co-Authors: Senators Kehoe, Kuehl and Migden; Assemblymember Laird and Speaker Núñez

This legislation only proves one thing; that the LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender) movement is not seeking equal treatment as they claim. They are seeking superior treatment, a special kind of treatment. There is no “Straight Day” celebration in the schools. Why there should be a “Gay Day” celebration?

Do you think our children should be celebrating a “Gay Day” at school? And how would you like to have to explain this “Gay Day” celebration to a Kindergartener? Well, if you live in the state of California and Governor Schwarzenegger does not veto this legislation, you just might have to. And look out everyone, legislations often voted for in California tend to spread out throughout the nation.

CALL TO ACTION: You can let Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger know how you feel about this issue:
Contact the Governor

Governor’s Office

Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger
State Capitol Building
Sacramento, CA 95814
Phone: 916-445-2841
Fax: 916-445-4633

To send an Electronic Mail please visit:
http://www.govmail.ca.gov

Obama Voted against banning partial birth abortion

In 1997, Obama voted against SB 230, which would have turned doctors into felons by banning so-called partial-birth abortion, & against a 2000 bill banning state funding. Although these bills included an exception to save the life of the mother, they didn’t include anything about abortions necessary to protect the health of the mother. The legislation defined a fetus as a person, & could have criminalized virtually all abortion. Source: The Improbable Quest, by John K. Wilson, p.147-148 Oct 30, 2007
www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Abortion.htm#1

Obama Trusts women to make own decisions on partial-birth abortion

Q: What us your view on the decision on partial-birth abortion and your reaction to most of the public agreeing with the court’s holding?

A: I think that most Americans recognize that this is a profoundly difficult issue for the women and families who make these decisions. They don’t make them casually. And I trust women to make these decisions in conjunction with their doctors and their families and their clergy. And I think that’s where most Americans are. Now, when you describe a specific procedure that accounts for less than 1% of the abortions that take place, then naturally, people get concerned, and I think legitimately so. But the broader issue here is: Do women have the right to make these profoundly difficult decisions? And I trust them to do it. There is a broader issue: Can we move past some of the debates around which we disagree and can we start talking about the things we do agree on? Reducing teen pregnancy; making it less likely for women to find themselves in these circumstances.

Source: 2007 South Carolina Democratic primary debate, on MSNBC Apr 26, 2007
www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Abortion.htm#1

Obama Undecided on whether life begins at conception

Q: Do you personally believe that life begins at conception?
A: This is something that I have not come to a firm resolution on. I think it’s very hard to know what that means, when life begins. Is it when a cell separates? Is it when the soul stirs? So I don’t presume to know the answer to that question. What I know is that there is something extraordinarily powerful about potential life and that that has a moral weight to it that we take into consideration when we’re having these debates.

Source: 2008 Democratic Compassion Forum at Messiah College Apr 13, 2008
www.ontheissues.org/2008/Barack_Obama_Abortion.htm#1

It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to know that anything that has the ability to grow is living; it’s alive, not dead or non existent. With that in mine, wouldn’t it be accurate to say that the unborn baby no matter how many weeks old he might be in the mother’s womb, he or she is alive and growing, and if we don’t interrupt the process it will continue to grow until it riches necessary maturity, and then it will be born, and it will continue to grow, and become a toddler, a child, a teen, an adult, a mother , or a father, a doctor, or a lawyer, a dentist,………. a member of society.

I was given that opportunity. You were given that opportunity. Had my mother decided to terminate her pregnancy when she was carrying me, I wouldn’t be here today, in which case I would have been murdered; because I was a person inside of my mother’s womb, in the most fragile and vulnerable stage of my life, but none the less, I was a person. The stage of life we are in does not change the fact that we are alive and have the right to continue to live.

When a pregnant woman decides to terminate her pregnancy, at whatever stage, that woman is terminating a life. I don’t care if it is only one week pregnant, two weeks, three, or four… Or whether one wants to call it a fetus to emotionally detach herself from it or be politically correct ……. The truth is that a living thing, a baby, another human being is growing inside that womb and it’s alive. And if it was alive and then is dead, and it didn’t happen due to natural causes, then it would be safe to say that someone killed it.

An unborn baby is a person in its most fragile and vulnerable stage, defenseless and at the mercy of those who conceived them. Anyone who performs, approves or supports the termination of the unborn child is nothing but a coward. Why don’t they try to mess with someone their own size? The atrocities being committed against the unborn babies, such as, the partial birth Abortion, all in the name of giving women choices, is inexcusable.

Women have plenty of choices. Let me tell you all the choices women have out there to prevent an unwanted pregnancy: there are condoms, plenty of contraceptive pills to choose from and contraceptive devices, and how about abstinence. It is not a secret that when one has sexual intercourse there is like a 99.9 percent chance of getting pregnant. So if a woman doesn’t want to get pregnant, why doesn’t she try one of the above mentioned choices? Is it such a big of an inconvenience to go to a store or pharmacy to purchase contraceptives? Women and teenage girls spend tons of money buying cosmetics, clothes, shoes, music cd’s, etc. If they know that they are going be having reckless sexual intercourse but don’t want to get pregnant, why don’t they behave more responsibly and invest in one of the preventive methods mentioned above, instead of foolishly getting pregnant and then wanting to terminate the pregnancy?

Some people may say what about the women who get pregnant due to rape? And what about the women who did used contraceptives but they failed and they don’t want a baby? Well, for that, there is a beautiful choice call adoption. And besides, let’s look at the statistics and see who are the people performing abortions. Of all the abortions being performed only 2% were due to rape, incest, physical life of mother, health of mother or fetal health. The other 98% of abortions were performed due to”personal choice”:
–too young/immature/not ready for responsibility
–economic
–to avoid adjusting life
–mother single or in poor relationship
–enough children already

REASONS FOR ABORTIONS IN THE US: COMPILED ESTIMATES Click bellow to see complete story http://www.johnstonsarchive.net/policy/abortion/abreasons.html

As you can see on the table above, 98% of abortions could have been prevented by responsibly using a contraceptive method. Instead these individuals recklessly enjoyed the pleasures of having sex and then don’t want to pay for the consequences of their irresponsible actions. That’s why abortions needs to banned altogether and Specially the Partial Birth Abortion.

Partial Birth Abortion

http://www.nrlc.org/ABORTION/pba/diagram.html

To see detailed images of partial-birth abortion, and documentation from medical experts on the accuracy of these images, click here.

Guided by ultrasound, the abortionist grabs the baby’s leg with forceps.

The baby’s leg is pulled out into the birth canal.

The abortionist delivers the baby’s entire body, except for the head.

The abortionist jams scissors into the baby’s skull. The scissors are then opened to enlarge the hole.

The scissors are removed and a suction catheter is inserted. The child’s brains are sucked out, causing the skull to collapse. The dead baby is then removed.

To see detailed images of partial-birth abortion, and documentation from medical experts on the accuracy of these images, click here.

This friends is nothing but a slaughter and it should be stopped immediately and punished to the maximum extend of the law. And anyone who performs, approves or supports these massacres is nothing but a cold-blooded criminal.

I was reading that a couple of months ago the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the child-rape death penalty in Louisiana. The case that overturned the law was that of Patrick Kennedy. The 43-year-old was sentenced to death for the rape of his 8-year-old stepdaughter. He is one of two people in the U.S., both in Louisiana, condemned to death for a rape not accompanied by a killing.

The Louisiana Foundation Against Sexual Assault, a victim-advocacy group, shared the concern voiced by the court that the death penalty in such cases could endanger rather than protect children. They uphold that “making the punishment for child rape and murder equivalent, a state that punishes child rape by death may remove a strong incentive for the rapist not to kill the victim.”

The court said Louisiana law allowing the death penalty to be imposed in such cases violates the Constitution’s ban on cruel and unusual punishment, and that “The death penalty is not a proportional punishment for the rape of a child.”

Forty-five states ban the death penalty for any kind of rape, and the other five states allow it for child rapists. Montana, Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas allow executions in such cases if the defendant had previously been convicted of raping a child.

I am 100% pro-life, and an opponent of the death penalty, but I always thought that having enforced the death penalty for child rape would discourage individuals from committing this type of crimes. That knowing the consequence of their actions would be death row would scare them away from even trying to commit these hideous crimes against children. So hearing the court’s opinion that imposing the death penalty on a child rapist will actually encourage them to kill the victim was something I never pondered.

Maybe the U.S. Supreme Court is right or maybe they are not. Which is best to help keep our children safe from sexual predators? To allow the death penalty for child rapists or not to allow it? and what punishment is proportional to the rape of a child? Just let the parents of the victim answer that one.

God forbids, this happens to your family, what kind of punishment would you like be enforced on the perpetrator?

Want to know how many registered sex offenders live near you? In your neighborhood, Children schools, Parks, and within a 20 to 30 miles ratios? On this Website, go to Helpful Resources on the far right, and click on SEXUAL PREDATOR SEARCH.

I came across the following article on a new technology being developed aimed to aid parents remember a child left in a car, although written in 2004, I find this report very interesting and relevant today since the hyperthermia-deaths-of-children-in-hot-vehicles continue to happen.

However, we are already nearing the end of 2008, four years after this report was written, and I have not heard of anything of this nature already in place. Does anyone know anything about this new technology out there? If you do, would you be so kind to share with us by placing a comment on this post?

I was reading an article this week published by a self-defense educator, and I learned some things I never thought could make me and/or my children an easy target to a predator.

We have all seen those eye catching signs/stickers on the back of vehicles that read: “My child is a Gymnast,” “Baby on Board,” My child is an Honor Student at ____________,” and even signs placed in yards, home windows and mailboxes espousing: “Home of a Cheerleader,” “Home of a Dancing Doll,” “Jr. High Softball Star,” “Pa Paw and Me Maw’s Place,” etc. According to a self-defense educator and this makes a lot of sense, if you are a proud owner of any of these signs, they could attract predators and you and/or your family can become an easy target.

“A predator can drive through a neighborhood and know from these signs exactly where the prettiest, spunkiest cheerleader lives. Predators can read “Pa Paw and Me Maws Place,” and know that house has a frail and elderly couple living inside that would most likely be very easy to rob. Predators can see a car with “Baby on Board” and know that will be the easiest victim yet, for what mother would not give or do anything to try to keep her baby out of harm’s way? These signs make it so easy for perpetrators to find their next victim.

“And even more disturbing are the cheer and sports signs that clearly spell out the child’s name in plain view. How easy is that for a would-be perpetrator? Children should never walk around with names printed on shirts and backpacks. In a child’s mind, a person who knows their name is no longer a stranger.”

“The danger lies not just with our children however, but also with adults. Did you know that perpetrators go to the mall and carouse the parking lot looking for cars with stuffed animals in the back window and beads hanging from the rear view mirror? They look for cars that obviously belong to young females and then they wait for them to return to their cars so they can attack or abduct them.” Predators see these as helpful and direct clues leading them to their next victim.”

Don’t increase your chances of being a predator’s next victim. Remove all signs, sticker, and unnecessary items from your vehicles and properties. If this helps keep a predator away from you and your family, it’s well worth the sacrifice.

Want to know how many registered sex offenders live near you? In your neighborhood, Children school, Parks, and within a 20 to 30 miles ratios? On this Website, go to Helpful Resources on the far right, and click on SEXUAL PREDATOR SEARCH.