Randy Thomasson: "Public School Will Turn Your Kids Into Atheist Homosexuals "

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Randy Thomasson runs a "pro-family" group called Save California. From their Website:

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We exist because of the generous support of everyday people who care.

» To teach and empower folks to stand for what's right in God's sight.
» To shake up the establishment in government, media and the culture.
» To challenge liberal forces wherever they attack moral virtue.
» To boldly speak and stand strong for Truth, no matter the outcome.
» To impact the next generation like never before.

Founded in 1999 by veteran pro-family leader Randy Thomasson, SaveCalifornia.com is dedicated to defending and representing the values of parents, grandparents and concerned citizens who want what's best for this generation and future generations.
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Thomasson also has a subsidiary group called RescueYourChild, which is targeted at parents. OogedyBoogedy! The Gays and Atheists are after your children!

For Thomasson "boldly speaking and standing strong for Truth" typically means spewing the most virulent anti-gay lies he can pull out of his backside while whining about how persecuted Christians are because they're losing their privilege.


When it comes to the idea of California schools teaching about the contribution of LGBT people to history he kept up his usual pace. Even before the law passed he was in a froth:

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"This sexual brainwashing bill would mandate that children as young as 6 years old be told falsehoods -- that homosexuality is biological, when it isn't, or healthy, when it's not," Thomasson said.

"Parents don't send their sons and daughters to school to learn to admire homosexuality, bisexuality, cross-dressing, "sex change" operations, homosexual "marriages," or to support legal persecution of people who disagree," Thomasson said. "There's already a raft of school sexual indoctrination laws on the books. Impressionable children are already being sexual indoctrinated, but SB 48 would be the most in-your-face brainwashing yet. We urge Governor Brown to respect parents, remember basic academics, and basic family values, and veto this bad bill when it reaches his desk."

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Since the bill has passed he's gone even further. In his radio show he spends nearly fourteen minutes ranting about "homosexual indoctrination", repeating bigoted propaganda about homosexuality being "an unhealthy lifestyle choice", claiming the children are being subjected to "mental molestation" by learning that gay people exist, and more.


I wonder if anybody has ever told Randy that Lying for the Lord is still lying (even if you call a lie "Truth"). Of course he wouldn't care. Being gay is an unpardonable sin for his kind. Lying, though it violates one of the 10 Commandments, is apparently of no real concern--particularly to someone who chooses to do it "no matter the outcome".

[LeftishBrit]

1. Unfortunately, I keep giggling childishly because of the meaning that 'Randy' has in the UK!

Apart from that, when did 'pro-family' acquire the meaning 'anti-gay'?

In the words of a book which Randy claims to promote, 'Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.

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2. Pro-family acquired the meaning anti-gay

about the time the RRRWers started using "pro-family" in a dual attempt to disguise their rabid anti-gay agenda, and to imply that anybody who supported equality for gay people was automatically "anti-family". They like to pretend they're the owners of "family", like LGBT people aren't members of families too.

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3. Public schools ideally allow children to develop into the people they want to become.

First, a child is an atheist and/or gay when s/he enters schools and can't be "indoctrinated". The only thing Randy Thomasson is complaining about is that the schools aren't actively programming those children to doubt their natual proclivities and to hate themselves, leading them to become heterosexual Christians.

Second, Thomasson is using children as "victims" in order to advocate for more religion to be incorporated into public schools' programs. He hopes that finding a social utility and it will lead to radicalization of public school programs where all children can be proselytized and subsequently they will convert. If anything, he's promoting that religion be used as he's accusing the schools: to indoctrinate, which is incongruent to the purpose of public education.

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4. Thomasson's problem

and really the problem with all people like him, is that they live in abject terror that the indoctrination they put their children through might wear off. They're scared as hell that the kids might hear something that contradicts the dogma they've been fed, and that the kids might start to think for themselves--and wonder what else their parents have been lying about. Every time they scream about "indoctrination" it's projection, plain and simple. They love indoctrination so long as they're the ones doing it.

[no_hypocrisy]

5. Well said.

[MarkCharles]

6. Recommending this thread for how scary this religious crusader is.

Fundamentalist Christians, (and Mormons and Catholics), must be paralyzed with fear over this issue. One has to question the visceral nature of that fear in some people, and hardly should we wonder if there is a connection between rabid anti-homosexual sentiment and which churches those folks are members of. One need only look at a significant number of those religious leaders and advisers over the past recent history who have been "discovered" to have had more than a "friendship"with a member of the LGBT commununity.

As leftist Brit commented, I have to chuckle, too, at the dual meaning of the word "randy" in the UK.

[edhopper]

7. Oh come on

this is just another fringe group. "Real" Christians don't think this way. Stop criticizing religion based on the action of a few million.

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9. I know

They don't reflect what's really going on in Christianity today. I just made it up as a characterization.

[ZombieHorde]

8. I so wish that was true! nt

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10. ...but only if they're lucky. nt

[Humanist_Activist]

11. And that's a bad thing?

Responding to the subject line only.

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12. According to some people

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[deacon_sephiroth]

14. I'm with you, at least the way I read it...

This is all I saw in the headline:

Home-schooling makes kids more intelligent that theists on average (studied and proven), more informed about the bible than believers (also statistically accurate), and doesn't repress them or their sexuality.

Sounds aweful... it must be stopped

[closeupready]

13. I'm certainly fine with that.

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