PART I — Before anybody supports Marty Golden’s “Republicans for Change” they should know that Marty Golden is no kind of “Family Values” Conservative — SOME BACKGROUND

State Senator Golden supported the NYS GOP leadership in allowing a vote on “Same-sex Marriage” that was necessary to pass it into law; he consistently refuses to support the strongest bill to protect children from sexual predators; and he strongly supported a bill that did become law, which  had been pushed by the LGBT community called the “Dignity for All Students Act” (DASA), that has been used to promote religious diversity and tolerance of unfamiliar lifestyles in all schools, and  has been used to foster such things as role playing in middle schools, including same-sex kissing

[In PART II (due out in 24 hours) see how, since DASA became law, both Golden and Golden’s Chief of Staff  Kassar have resisted attempts to limit the reach of that law or lessen its impact on religious schools  —  while instead they have proudly announced their support of an amendment that broadened its coverage]

It has been long known to me that State Senator Golden has been unmoved by the needs of the victims of infant sexual abuse; and as a result he has never attempted to be properly educated on the complexity of the problems surrounding the issue of protecting the children from sexual predators in the first instance, and bringing justice to most victims of such crimes after the fact. Once I became aware of his lack awareness on those issues and his intractable position on proposed legislation, I stopped supporting Marty Golden for re-election. That was because I could no longer see him as my sort of “Family Values” conservative.

Since that time, Golden’s votes on several other matters have betrayed him as a completely false “Family Values” conservative  —  over and over again. The most notable of those were his New York State Senate Republican caucus votes in support of a GOP leadership team that allowed a New York State Senate vote on the “Same-sex Marriage” bill that resulted in that measure’s passage into law.  It also recently came to my attention that State Senator Martin Golden had cynically and quietly supported other aspects of the LGBT agenda, as well. I am specifically referring to what has benignly been called the “Dignity for All Students Act”.

The “Dignity for All Students Act” (DASA, a/k/a “The Dignity Act”), which was pushed as an “anti-bullying” law was eventually passed with the active support of State Senator Martin Golden.  In practice, DASA has had a far more pervasive and negative history than people like State Senator Golden  would like for you to know about. In fact, DASA has been described by certain socially conservative religious organizations as the boldest attack on religious values in recent history. Once it had been added to the NYS Education law in 2010 (effective on July 1, 2012) it required in no uncertain terms that all schools teach “a set of principles” that could be in direct contradiction to what those schools previously taught in conformity with their religious values.

One need go no further than DASA’s own “Home Page” [http://www.p12.nysed.gov/dignityact/] to see the big-government nanny-state administrative monster that was created by that law (Yes, there is an official NYS Department of Education website for DASA) . The socially conservative Orthodox Jewish blog “United to Save America” is far more anecdotal and documentary in its condemnation of DASA and those who support and protect it. It is at that blog site where you can find a lengthy recitation of the legislative history of  DASA; together with details of things that have happened since its passage into law, such as how DASA has fostered middle-school lesbian role playing (See “11 Years old Girls Required To Ask To Kiss Others Girls Due To New York Law,” United to Save America [http://unitedtosaveamerica.blogspot.com/2013/04/11-years-old-girls-required-to-ask-to.html] [with links to instructional video and other material] ; also “Asking Girls To Kiss, How It Did Happen, The History Of The Dignity For All Students Act Part 1” by Robert Adler, 4/28/13, United to Save America [http://unitedtosaveamerica.blogspot.com/2013/04/asking-girls-to-kiss-how-it-happened.html]).

By contrast, a visit to State Senator Martin Golden’s web page would disclose several posts showing the State Senator’s complete support for the DASA and his efforts to extend its reach to so-called  “cyber-bullying, ” without any support for the attempts by fellow legislators to limit DASA’s application [to and effect on] [10:54 AM 5/22/13] religious schools.