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Gov. Schwartzennegger has just signed a bill that ties funding to a repression of free speech in all schools, public and private:
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has tossed out all sexual moral conduct codes at colleges, private and Christian schools, daycare centers and other facilities throughout his state, if the institutions have any students who get state assistance.
The governor yesterday signed a bill that would require all businesses and groups receiving state funding -- even if it's a state grant for a student -- to condone homosexuality, bisexuality and transsexuality.
This is a violation of even the most liberal interpretation of the separation of Church and state clause, because it uses the power of the state to force religious institutions to say what the state wants them to say.
It is a violation of freedom of speech, because it not only punishes those who say something that the state doesn't want people to say -- it forces people to say what the state demands.
This bill has got to be challenged as a violation of our Constitutional right to free speech.
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#2You're making my point.
Not everyone agrees with you about religion, or about homosexuality, bisexuality, and transexuality. But you want the financial power of the state to be used specifically to prevent them from saying what they believe.
#3It is a violation of freedom of speech, because it not only punishes those who say something that the state doesn't want people to say -- it forces people to say what the state demands.
What is your basis for this statement? (The part in bold.)
#4What is your basis for this statement? (The part in bold.)
Because it requires people to condone something that don't in fact actually believe in, or give up state funding.
#5What are people being forced to say?
It does not force any group to do anything. If they want state funding they have a choice, to recieve it or not.
Finally the government is letting the religious sector know that they should be the last people to judge others.
The seperation of church and state was put in place to protect the people from secular laws that could discriminate. It was not enacted to give religions an umbrella to hide under as they point fingers at everyone else.
Religions do not pay taxes and should not be recieving funding anyway.
I personally think they should be charged for spreading fairy tales and causing the division of humans through their own judgement of different groups. They are the reason the world is divided, and they should instead be forced to play well with others, for a change.