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ACTION ALERT – calls needed about SB 11, “Healthy relationships” education

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#TxLege ACTION ALERT

Facts:

  • The Senate and the House passed SB 11, which deals with mental health issues. The House added amendments.
  • HB 366, which died, mandates “healthy relationships” education.
  • The HB 366 mandate is now in SB 11.
  • SB 10, another mental health bill was killed in the House on a point of order, but it was amended to SB 11.

“Healthy relationships” education was called a “reproductive rights” bill by the Texas Freedom Network. It is a blank check that can include anything, such as Planned Parenthood’s “Consent” (to sex) videos.

To understand what “healthy relationships” education is and why it is so bad, please read Debbie Simmons’ testimony — below.

For several reasons, many have worked to defeat SB 10 and 11 and related bills, including several organizations. See the Action Alert from Concerned Women for America: https://mailchi.mp/cwfa/urgent-calls-needed-mental-health-mandates-must-be-stopped?e=042541b745

SB 11 expected to go to a conference committee, which is appointed by the lt. governor and the Speaker, to work out the differences in the  House and Senate versions. The conference version will go to the House and Senate for an up or down vote. No amendments are allowed at that time.

ACTION: Call ASAP – Time is running out – PLEASE CONSIDER

Call your state representative and your state senator. Ask them to vote NO on SB 11.

Note: Today a state rep said he had not heard from constituents. Another said he polled his district and 80% support the bill.
 
Call or email the governor and ask him to veto SB 11. (512) 463-1782 AND (512) 463-2000

Email contact form: https://gov.texas.gov/apps/contact/opinion.aspx

Note: You can call anytime and leave a message.

Pray for your consideration to all pray together for guidance for our elected officials:

We ask for the One, Triune God to pour His grace upon us as we stand before You, Holy Spirit, conscious of our sinfulness, but aware that we gather in Your name. Come to us, remain with us, and enlighten our hearts.Give us light and strength to know Your will, to make it our own, and to live it in our lives.Guide us by Your wisdom, support us by Your power, for You are God, sharing the glory of Father and Son. You desire justice for all: enable us to uphold the rights of others; do not allow us to be misled by ignorance or corrupted by fear or favor. Unite us to Yourself in the bond of love and keep us faithful to all that is true. As we gather in Your name may we temper justice with love, so that all our decisions may be pleasing to You, and earn the reward promised to good and faithful servants. We ask this of You Who live and reign with the Father and the Son, one God, for ever and ever. R. Amen.

Testimony of Debbie Simmons

“I’m Debbie Simmons. I am AGAINST HB 366. Thank you for the opportunity to testify on this sex education bill.

I served as the secretary of the Round Rock ISD School Health Advisory Council, or SHAC. Through that experience and since, I learned of the Texas Freedom Network SHAC Initiative to infiltrate SHACs across Texas to promote Comprehensive Sex Education, Planned Parenthood and Playboy’s SIECUS organization (Sexuality Information and Education Council of the US), the Future of Sex Education Initiative (FoSE), Dr. Alfred Kinsey’s child abuse masked as experiments, and much more.

Former Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards formed the Texas Freedom Network in the mid-90s to “combat the anti-choice, radical policy agenda of the extreme right in Texas.” On their website, this group categorizes HB 366 as a “Reproductive Rights” bill. Not only is it a sex education bill, it is a pro-abortion bill.

The goal of these groups is to implement comprehensive sex education (CSE) including adolescent consent to sexual activity, “safe” sex, social emotional learning (SEL), “healthy” relationship education, and the rights of adolescents to access contraception.

“Ensuring that local community values are reflected in the district’s health education instruction,” Texas Education Code 28.004 requires the citizen SHAC to recommend Human Sexuality Instruction to the Trustees who must review and adopt curriculum, and parents must be notified and provided the opportunity to opt out their children. HB 366 creates a new section in the Education Code.

Rather than curricula being recommended by the SHAC, adopted by the Board of Trustees, communicated to the parents with the opportunity to opt out as the law requires, HB 366 circumvents parental authority and implements the National Sexuality Education Standards (NSES). 

Please protect children and parental rights by voting NO on this bill. Thank you for your time.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txXQtObYPCw
https://statutes.capitol.texas.gov/Docs/ED/htm/ED.28.htm…
https://tfn.org/resources/legislative-watch/