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Strickland Once Called Homosexuality A 'Lifestyle' That 'Takes Decades' Off Life

By Mike Devlin

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“In California we are engaged in an intense battle to protect our children from propaganda that promotes a lifestyle that could takes decades off their lives.”
-Tony Strickland, 2000
In 2000, Tony Strickland joined a handful of California legislators on a ballot statement in favor of a controversial Oregon measure (Measure 9) that would have forbidden the state’s schools from “encouraging, promoting, or sanctioning homosexual/ bisexual behaviors,” and it was the successor of an unsuccessful 1992 measure that would have required schools to teach that homosexuality is “abnormal, wrong, unnatural and perverse” and should be “discouraged and avoided.” The 2000 measure failed narrowly.
The legislators’ ballot statement was filled with alarmist “don’t let this happen to you” arguments that detailed the advances made by “homosexual activists.” Their dispatches from the California include:
“Pro-homosexual curricula, films, and handouts have become commonplace”
“ We have in-services ­ sometimes called ‘diversity training’ -- at which teachers are taught how "to introduce gay/lesbian issues in all curriculum areas."
“We have pro-homosexual counseling programs such as Project 10, which routinely refer troubled students to outside homosexual organizations.”
As you may recall, Strickland came under fire during the primary after a debate held at College of the Canyons where he was the lone candidate to oppose the Employment Nondiscrimination Act, a law which would have outlawed employment discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The picture above followed a questioner’s request for a show of hands to indicate support for ENDA. Here’s a report from local Democratic columnist Charles Vignola posted the following day:
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The full text of the Oregon ballot statement, retrieved from the online archives of the Oregon Secretary of State is below, in full. You will notice that Steve Knight’s father, Sen. Pete Knight, was also a signatory. Emphasis is mine. 

ARGUMENT IN FAVOR

CALIFORNIA LEGISLATORS ASK HELP 
FROM OREGON VOTERS

We, the following California legislators, are pleading with the voters of Oregon to please protect the children of Oregon. In last four years homosexual activists, led by the Gay, Lesbian, Straight Education Network (GLSEN), have greatly accelerated their activity in California's public schools.


Pro-homosexual curricula, films, and handouts have become commonplace -- such as the infamous Los Angeles Unified handout claiming Abraham Lincoln was a homosexual!


We have school-sponsored homosexual proms and dances in our larger school districts, where students are encouraged to meet adult homosexuals. We have in-services ­ sometimes called "diversity training" -- at which teachers are taught how "to introduce gay/lesbian issues in all curriculum areas."


Many of our schools routinely host homosexual speakers who give speeches that often contain graphic descriptions of various homosexual sex acts. We have pro-homosexual counseling programs such as Project 10, which routinely refer troubled students to outside homosexual organizations. Incredibly, Project 10 
distributes a handbook that contains stories about the seduction of students by homosexual teachers!


Even worse, last year two homosexual rights bills passed which were portrayed as simply measures to protect gays from discrimination in the schools but have become vehicles to advance their agenda. Legal counsel for our Dept. of Education recently informed us that certain private schools must comply!


GLSEN has targeted your state. What has happened in California WILL happen in Oregon unless Measure 9 passes. The public schools are not the place to promote or advocate this lifestyle. In California we are engaged in an intense battle to protect our children from propaganda that promotes a lifestyle that could takes decades off their lives. However, you now have the opportunity to preempt such a conflict by voting YES on Measure 9.


Assemblyman Steve Baldwin 
Assemblyman Rico Oller 
Assemblyman Bruce Thompson 
Assemblyman George House 
Assemblyman Dick Ackerman 
Assemblyman Tony Strickland 
Assemblyman Howard Kaloogian 
Senator Ray Haynes 
Senator Pete Knight 
Senator Bill Morrow

(This information furnished by Assemblyman Steve Baldwin.)


(Images from this post, by Howie Klein/Down With Tyranny)


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