Calif. school board member faces recall after bizarre homophobic anti-vaxxer rant
Residents in Chino, California are pushing to recall a Christian conservative school board member after railing for nearly 10 minutes against school vaccinations, undocumented immigrants, and adoption rights for same-sex couples during a meeting earlier this month.
“Children are not commodities that can be severed from their natural parents and traded between unrelated adults,” Andrew Cruz said during the Chino Valley Unified School District board meeting on July 16. “Parenting will be defined, erasing and replacing with gender-neutral legal parent, erasing biological natural parenthood [so] that states would ignore childrens’ foremost right: their immutable, intrinsic yearning to know and be raised by their own biological parents. Gender of parents matter for the health and developments of children.”
The Friendly Atheist reported that Cruz also downplayed race as a factor in last month’s terrorist attack against the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston last month because South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley “is a woman from India, Indian descent.” Haley, an Indian-American, was born in South Carolina.
“One of two senators is black,” Cruz said, referring to Sen. Tim Scott. “You know, we’re no longer a racist country, but they still talk about it.”
Cruz, who was elected in 2012, then turned his attention to a state law passed last month eliminating religious examptions against school vaccines, calling it “un-American.”
He also cited a report by the conservative site Judicial Watch blaming “tens of thousands of Central Americans” who carried infectious diseases into the US, a reference to the “unaccompanied minors” who entered the country fleeing violence in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador last summer. In reality, medical professionals said at the time that the majority of those children were better-vaccinated than their American counterparts.
“It is bizarre how our government harm our citizens by allowing infectious diseases to infect our country and blaming mothers who don’t vaccinate their children,” Cruz said.
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/07/calif-school-board-member-faces-recall-after-bizarre-homophobic-anti-vaxxer-rant/
