Parents’ Rights

Two important initiatives are in the works at this time for California voters.

1. “Civil Rights for Families” that will empower parents to protect their children from sexual indoctrination.

2. “Parents’ Right To Know” which will protect girls under the age of 18 from abortion. Information was released regarding the Civil Rights for Families that stated: “Thousands of Californians have been signing the official petition to place on the June 2006 California ballot. Thank you to those who signed the ‘Civil Rights for Families’ petition, which Campaign for California Families has been supporting. Visit www.savecalifornia.com. The six million children in California public schools absolutely need protection from homosexual activists who are targeting their hearts and minds.”

Every year, several good initiatives attempt to qualify for the ballot. Nearly all fail. Others are resubmitted to start over with more time to collect signatures. Only a few make it to the ballot. Consider that the last openly pro-family initiative we voted on was Proposition 22 in 2000.

With this in mind, I need to tell you some good news and some bad news. First the good news. I believe we will someday pass a ballot proposition to protect parental rights in California. And I believe “Civil Rights for Families” led by Tony Andrade and Art Croney may well be that historic measure. Now the bad news. The first attempt to gather signatures is going to fall short of the goal of gathering the necessary 450,000 signatures. Andrade and Croney have realized this, and are operating in wisdom by resubmitting the measure with changes. This will start a “new clock” allowing them to collect signatures with more time and resources. This also means the signatures collected thus far on petitions from CCF or other organizations will not count. We will all need to sign again when the new petition is available. Please stay tuned for the second attempt of the “Civil Rights for Families” initiative.” At the same time the Parents’ Right to Know has two efforts underway — one is still forming and one is beginning their efforts at signature gathering. (See insert in newspaper.)

The Parents Right to Know initiative will require an abortionist to contact at least one of the parents or the guardian of an under-18-year-old girl at least 48 hours before aborting the girl’s baby.

In those states where there is Parental Notification, many lives have been saved. If you help, we can finally do the same in California.

The initiative needs 598,105 valid signatures to qualify for the next California election.

We need you today! We need you to collect as many valid signatures as soon as possible.

All of these efforts are so important, as we saw in this last election that our state ended up “blue.” Get involved at every level to take back our state! Your church has the legal right to let you collect signatures on church grounds. For an authoritative legal opinion on your church’s right, go to the website www.ParentsRight2know.org

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Dana Serrano Chisholm of Escondido represents Women’s Resources Network. She can be reached at (760) 741-5114 or DanaChisholm@cox.net.