Parents urged to keep kids home during week of Harvey Milk Day celebrations (VIDEO)

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Urging families to protect themselves from sexual indoctrination, Randy Thomasson of SaveCalifornia.org is encouraging families to keep their children home from school on and around Harvey Milk Day – May 22 – when schools beef up their educational materials to talk about the accomplishments of the slain gay rights activist and politician.

The day of special significance as it is called was signed into law  Oct. 11, 2009 by then Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and intended as a way for the California public school system to teach about Milk’s legacy in an age-appropriate way.

But family values groups like SaveCalifornia.org are having none of it. “Children belong to their parents, not to the government. And so, if government schools are sexually indoctrinating children, it’s up to the parents to number one, protect their children and two, protest and tell these schools don’t do it again,” says Randy Thomasson.

His site is filled with all the trademark warnings about ‘sexual indoctrination’ and “predatory” behavior that have become staples of the “pro” family movement and the backbone for arguments to encourage boycotts. There is even a three-minute video on the site, complete with a dramatic, staccato-style piano score, that highlights Milk’s past including his having had multiple partners and supporting same-sex marriage. (Ironically, the source for all this vice? None other than Randy Shilts, reported as a “reputable” source in their video and, however full of journalistic integrity, died from living the very lifestyle Thomasson and his ilk so readily condemn.)

“That’s traumatic for children, to be forced into this, to be made sexually uncomfortable by their own teachers and their own principal,” warns Thomasson, although short on proof that Milk’s sex life is the purpose of these lessons in the first place.