SB 777 spreads fear among extreme right wing. Afraid California will erase "Mom and Dad" from school texts

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed legislation that will require the Department of Education to monitor the way schools adhere to the state's anti-bias laws and specifically mandates the department to ensure the protection of LGBT students.

The Student Civil Rights Act (Senate Bill 777) is making ripples with social conservatives - who fear that progress will ruin their families.

And now right wing activists have taken the first step to ask California voters to repeal the youth protections. The Capitol Resource Institute - in Sacramento - started the voter referendum process in an attempt to undo the student safeguards.

Introduced in February 2007, the expansive law bans discrimination in public schools against individuals who are members of specified categories known as “protected classes.” It includes a prohibition of discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender identity. The law even protects those who are "associated" with another person who's protected under the categories.

WorldNetDaily.com has been particularly antagonistic:

An initial response of the civil rights bill screams, "Mom and Dad as well as husband and wife have been banned from California schools under a bill signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, who with his signature also ordered public schools to allow boys to use girls restrooms and locker rooms, and vice versa, if they choose."

Randy Thomasson, president of Campaign for Children and Families said, "Arnold Schwarzenegger has delivered young children into the hands of those who will introduce them to alternative sexual lifestyles. This means children as young as five years old will be mentally molested in school classrooms."

Thomasson is calling for an "exodus" from the California public schools in retaliation for the protections recently signed into law.

California’s statewide LGBT civil rights advocacy organization - Equality California - is the sponsor of SB 777 and several other protections for youth in our schools.

AB 394, the Safe Place to Learn Act, provides protections for youth in California schools, including those who identify as LGBT. And SB 518 establishes a safe environment for LGBT youth residing in juvenile justice facilities with the creation of a Youth Bill of Rights.

Read Senate Bill 777 for yourself to see if there's any mention of restrooms or locker rooms.