California Adrift

By Albert Mohler

California citizens are just beginning to understand what happened when Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Senate Bill 777 into law. The governor signed the bill even though not one Republican lawmaker voted for the bill in either chamber of the California legislature. The bill sounds innocuous enough, but what it forbids is any school program or instruction that "promotes a discriminatory bias" against any individual or group on the basis of sexual orientation or gender.In reality, this is a form of governmental insanity. This law can be used to claim that any classroom materials, rules, or facilities represent gender bias or discrimination against persons on the basis of sexual orientation. How is a publisher to decide what historical figures to include? How many of each? Can schools have homecoming kings and queens? All this is yet unclear. What is all too clear is the insanity that is now law. Shame on Governor Schwarzenegger for signing this radical and shameful legislation.