How the Bible Became Hate Speech in California

By Rev. Ted Pike

Recently, California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed into law S.B. 777, outlawing Biblical criticism of homosexuality in CA public schools (See, California ‘Mom,’ ‘Dad’ ban garners international scorn). California ’s Christians face the alternatives of withdrawing their children to private education or watching them progressively corrupted by an educational system that demonizes their religious bias against sodomy.

This ban on the Bible is not a recent capricious edict from Sacramento liberals or the Republican “Terminator” Governor Schwarzenegger. It’s the result of massive social engineering throughout the past half century but begun in earnest in 1985 by the Anti-Defamation League of B’nai B’rith. ADL is architect of “anti-bias” educational programs worldwide. Here’s how this Jewish activist group helped make it criminal to criticize sodomy in California –and intends to do so everywhere.

Re-Defining Hate

America was founded on tolerance–as a place where people of widely diverse races, religions, and creeds could follow their convictions free from persecution. But America ’s founders hardly believed that vice should be tolerated or that it’s wrong to be prejudiced against it! Early American social ethics (as taught in homes, schools and churches) said the opposite: Families, social groups and even government should encourage “bias” against all forms of vice. These include robbery, graft, prostitution, etc. and that vice so unnatural that for thousands of years it was virtually unmentionable–sodomy. (more…)