Bills before the Education Committee
on Thursday, Oct. 27, 2005
Below are the 5 bills before committee on Oct. 27, 2005 -- and what you need
to know about them! In short: It's important that Bill H1050 be supported,
and the others opposed!
Four of the bills include our OPT-IN Parents Notification Law and three
"watered down" versions -- submitted by people on our side (!) who it
would appear would rather ask the Legislature for what's "reasonable" and
"less contentious" instead of demanding what's right, even when it comes to
homosexual indoctrination the children!
The fifth bill below is something we unfortunately often see -- a Trojan
horse by a pro-gay legislator to force the teaching of subjects that parents
want to decide upon for themselves.
Bill 1050 - OUR Opt-In Parents Notification Bill. This is the real
thing! This bill is despised by the homosexual lobby and Planned Parenthood
because it empowers parents. Protects children, parents, and even teachers from sex-ed and "sexual
orientation issues" in the schools.
Bill H1050
Sponsors: Rep. Joyce Spiliotis, Rep. Emile Goguen, Sen. Robert
Hedlund, Sen. Richard Moore, Rep. Daniel Webster, Rep. Vinnie
deMacedo, Rep. Jeffrey Perry, Rep. Paul Kujawski, Rep. Marie
Parente, Rep. Philip Travis, Rep. Shirley Gomes, Rep. Robert
Hargraves, Rep. Bruce Ayers, Rep. Shirley Owens-Hicks, Rep. James
Miceli
Chapter 71, section 32A of the General Laws is hereby amended to
be the following:—
Section 32A. Every city, town, regional school district or
vocational school district implementing or maintaining
curriculum
or portion thereof, or school sanctioned program or activity, which
primarily involves a human sexual education, human sexuality
issues, or sexual orientation issues shall adopt a written policy
ensuring parental/guardian notification.
All such curriculum, programs, and activities shall be offered
only in clearly identified non-mandatory elective courses in which
parents or guardians may choose to enroll their children through
written notification to the school, in a manner reasonably similar
to other elective courses offered by the school district.
To the extent practicable, instruction materials and related
items for said curriculum, programs, and activities shall be made
reasonably accessible to parents, guardians, educators, school
administrators, and others for inspection and preview.
No public school teacher or administrator shall be required to
participate in any such curriculum, programs, or activities that
violate his or her religious beliefs.
Bill H1166. Watered down version. A look-alike, similar to ours, but notice that it doesn't
include the words "or portion thereof" when discussing curriculum that's
covered. That's a BIG deal! The schools can (and current do) use
that to weasel out of their obligation unless it's included.
Bill H1166
Sponsors: Rep. Bradley Jones, Rep. George Peterson, Rep. John
Lepper, Rep. Vinnie deMacedo, Rep. Elizabeth Poirier, Rep. Jeffrey
Perry, Rep. Donald Humason, Rep. Susan Pope, Rep. Bradford Hill,
Rep. Daniel Webster, Rep. Paul Loscocco, Rep. Shirley Gomes, Rep.
Michael Coppola, Rep. Todd Smola, Rep. Richard Ross
Section 32A of chapter 71 of the General Laws, as appearing in
the 2002 Official Edition is hereby amended by striking out the
section in its entirety and inserting in place thereof the
following:
Section 32A. Every city, town, regional school district or
vocational school district implementing or maintaining curriculum,
or a school sanctioned program or activity, which primarily
involves human sexual education, human sexuality issues, or sexual
orientation issues shall adopt a written policy ensuring parental
or legal guardian notification.
Such curriculum programs and activities, which primarily
involves human sexual education, human sexuality issues, or sexual
orientation, shall be offered only in clearly identified non-
mandatory elective courses in which parents or guardians may choose
to enroll their children through written notification to the
school, in a manner reasonably similar to other elective courses
offered by the school district.
To the extent practicable, instruction materials and related
items for said curriculum, programs, and activities shall be made
reasonably accessible to parents, guardians, educators, school
administrators, and others for inspection and review.
No public school teacher or administrator shall be required to
participate in any such curriculum program and activities which
primarily involves human sexual education, human sexuality issues,
or sexual orientation issues that violate his or her religious
beliefs.
Bill H1015. This is even worse. It simply covers program
or activities "which involves sex education" and doesn't mention "sexual
orientation issues." We've already seen schools claim that homosexuality,
transgenderism, and homosexual relationships are not "sex education."
That's why we added those key phrases. And this bill also doesn't have the
phrase "or portion thereof."
Bill H1015
Sponsors: Rep. Elizabeth Poirier, Rep. Philip Travis, Rep.
Michael Coppola, Rep. Jeffrey Perry, Rep. Vinnie deMacedo.
SECTION 32A of Chapter 71 of the General Laws, as appearing in
the 1998 Official Edition is hereby amended by striking out the
section in its entirety and replacing it thereof with the
following: —
Any city, town or school district maintaining or implementing
any curriculum, unit of study, school-sanctioned program or
activity which involves sex education shall offer it only on an
elective basis.
Given reasonable notice, prior review of said materials, as well
as the questioning of teachers and administrators involved, will be
extended to parents, guardians and/or their legal representatives.
Written parent or guardian permission will be required for student
participation.
No public school teacher or employee who feels that such
curriculum or activity violates his or her religious beliefs shall
be required to participate in any way.
Bill 1011. Probably the worst of all. It allows a school
principal to override the parents, and determine that "the well-being of the
student" requires that the parents not be notified!! What kind of
insanity is this? And also, the words "or portion thereof" and "sexual
orientation issues" are not found, making this very weak, in addition.
Bill H1011
Sponsors: Rep. Kevin Murphy, Rep. Robert Hargraves, Rep. Mark
Carron, Rep. Peter Larkin
Section 32A of Chapter 71 of the General Laws is hereby amended
by striking out the first paragraph and inserting in place thereof
the following:-
Section 32A. Every city, town, regional school district or
vocational school district implementing or maintaining curriculum
or school sanctioned program or activity which primarily involves
human sexual education or human sexuality issues shall adopt a
policy ensuring parental/guardian notification. All such
curriculum, programs and activities shall be offered only in
clearly identified non-mandatory courses that parents or guardians
may choose to enroll their children through written notification to
the school, in a manner reasonably similar to other elective
courses offered by the school district; provided, however
in the
case where it is determined by a school principal, or his designee,
that obtaining said notification would be detrimental to the well
being of the student, then said student shall be exempt from the
notification requirement herein described.
Bill H1079. Really bad! In the last election, Rep. Mark
Falzone was endorsed by every major homosexual group in the state. So he's
paying them back with this assault on parents. This bill would mandate
"HIV Prevention" and "emotional development" courses, among other things. In our
experience, AIDS and HIV courses end up being homosexual indoctrination
sessions, i.e., the opposite of what they really SHOULD tell kids -- which is
that homosexual activity should be avoided at all costs to prevent AIDS. This
bill needs to be defeated.
Bill H1079
Sponsor: Rep. Mark Falzone
Section 1 of chapter 71 of the General Laws, as appearing in the
2000 Official Edition, is hereby amended by striking out the fifth
sentence beginning in line 16, and inserting in place thereof the
following sentence:— Instruction in health education shall include,
but not be limited to, consumer health, ecology, community health,
body structure and function, safety, nutrition, fitness and body
dynamics, dental health, emotional development, AIDS/HIV prevention
education, and training in the administration of first aid,
including cardiopulmonary resuscitation, in accordance with
policies and/or guidelines of the Board of Education in conjunction
with the Department of Public Health.
