Churches Can Make the Difference!

Church Petition Drives Yes, your church can participate! Church Petition Drives Churches are an integral part of our communities. They are a beacon of light that provide love, guidance and support. Churches also play a very important role in informing and educating their members. The Save Our Kids campaign is blessed to partner with many denominations throughout our state in dispersing petitions. Thank you to the courageous pastors and church volunteers who are working so hard on the referendum campaign! If your church has not yet signed up to assist in the campaign, we have some wonderful resources help you get started. First, Concerned Women for America of California has produced a special flyer on "How to Conduct a Petition Drive at your Church". This easy to follow guide describes specific steps your church can take to gather SB 777 referendum petition signatures. Second, Concerned Women for America has also produced a brochure called "Political Guidelines for Churches and Pastors". This brochure is another resource that will inform and empower pastors. Churches have a great deal of liberty and this brochure will explain their rights and responsibilities. Third, Pacific Justice Institute has prepared a letter to pastors that informs them of their rights to participate in the SB 777 referendum campaign. We recommend printing these three resources and taking them to your pastor. If he has any questions, feel free to contact either the Save our Kids campaign or Pacific Justice Institute. Keep in mind that if we get 777 churches to gather 1,000 signatures, we will certainly qualify the referendum for the ballot. Please encourage your church to be one of those 777 churches that stands up for righteousness and truth in our state. Church Resources How to Conduct a Petition Drive at your Church Political Guidelines for Churches and Pastors Constitutional Protections for Pastors Pacific Justice Institute Letter to Pastors

Just the Facts on SB 777 · There is legal protection for students without SB 777 · SB 777 changes the law on instruction and activities · Protection for homosexual, bisexual, and transgender students has been law since 2000. o The Student Safety and Violence Prevention Act of 2000 (AB 537) protects "all persons in public schools." It prohibits discrimination based on actual and perceived sexual orientation. o It explicitly extends protection from the California Penal Code to schools. The Penal Code protects all people in the enjoyment of their rights, as secured in the federal Constitution, United States law, the state Constitution, and state laws. o AB 394, passed in 2007, requires the State Department of Education to "monitor adherence" to AB 537. This may include state monitoring of student attitudes on sexual orientations. o Bottom line: AB 537 establishes equal protection for every California public school student, which makes SB 777 unnecessary. · SB 777 does not streamline existing California Educational Code. It adds to the law. o AB 537 purposely excluded school instruction and activities from non-discrimination law. o It reads: "Nothing in [AB 537] requires the inclusion of any curriculum, textbook, presentation, or other material in any program or activity ---" o SB 777 purposely adds new mandates for school instruction and activities. o It reads: "No teacher shall give instruction nor shall a school district sponsor any activity that promotes a discriminatory bias" against homosexuality, bisexuality, or transsexuality. o Bottom line: SB 777 adds school instruction and activities to the things that cannot promote "bias," which elevates homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality in public schools. · SB 777 is a mandate for every school district, ending local control on sensitive issues. o Under the equal protection of AB 537, each school district has discretion over how it addresses the sensitive issues of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality. o SB 777 takes away parental and local control and discretion over how to address these issues. o SB 777 specifically includes charter schools in these new mandates. o Bottom line: SB 777 normalizes homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexuality across the state, without room for local discretion on addressing these issues. Printable Version of Just the Facts Why Petitions are not Online Here is a brief summary of why we cannot post the petitions on our web site: The petitions are 11 x 17 and are 4 fold, like a booklet. Most citizens do not have printers that can print 11 x 17 paper. Because this is a referendum (not an initiative), we must include the entire text of SB 777. The bill is over 30 pages long, thus making the referendum petition very long. Many of the local county election offices, where referendum petitions are turned in, would reject petitions not in the specific print layout or stapled together. We cannot risk invalidating thousands of vital signatures because the petitions were not printed properly or printed on separate pages and stapled together. We have consulted with both our attorneys and consultants and they are all in agreement that we must not put them online. These are the same very experienced consultants that conducted the Save Our License initiative and were very involved in the Davis recall effort. Because most people cannot print the petitions and we cannot staple them (they must be in a booklet format), we are forced to print the petitions ourselves and then distribute them. If you would like to contribute to effort, please consider a donation today. Donate online today: Please make your most generous donation TODAY! Please send checks to: Save Our Kids c/o Capitol Resource Family Impact 660 J Street, Suite 250 Sacramento, CA 95814 Petition Instrutions As soon as you receive your petitions in the mail, please carefully read the instructions. If the instructions are not followed exactly, the petition could be invalidated. When gathering signatures, keep these important rules in mind: One to ten voters may sign each petition. Each voter must PRINT their NAME and ADDRESS where they are registered to vote and then SIGN in the space provided. Every person who signs the petition must be in the SAME COUNTY. If people from more than one county wish to sign, start a new petition for each county. The circulator does NOT have to be a voter in the county where they are gathering signatures and must sign the bottom part of the petition. Only registered voters can circulate petitions. You may circulate as many petitions as you want, but may sign only one petition. A petition is valid with only one signature. Each petition must have a circulator sign the bottom, even if the signer and circulator is the same person. If you have any questions, please visit our FAQ atwww.SaveOurKids.net or e-mail signthepetition@gmail.com. Thank you for your commitment to our cause-we could not do this without your support!