CA Family Council: discriminatory ACA 7 will deepen old wounds, not heal them.
A constitutional amendment making its way to the CA Senate would turn back the clock, “handing out benefits based on skin color,” says California Family Council VP Greg Burt. Assemblymember Carl DeMaio called the vote “disrespectful” to Californians who have said twice before they “do not want discrimination.”
California Family Council Vice President Greg Burt warned that ACA 7 would reverse California’s long-standing commitment to equal treatment under the law and invite years of legal uncertainty and public division.
“California should not weaken the constitutional guarantee that government will treat people equally,” Burt said. “ACA 7 invites the state to sort students and families by race again, and [start] handing out benefits based on skin color. This doesn’t heal old wounds; it deepens them and creates new ones.”
Racism is a sin. Discrimination rooted in prejudice is evil. But the answer to past injustice is not new injustice. Using discrimination to “fix” discrimination only reinforces the very worldview that divides people into racial categories and treats individuals as representatives of groups rather than as moral agents made by God.
Assemblymember Carl DeMaio reminded colleagues:
“Would you please listen to the voters. They do not want discrimination. This would be a complete and utter waste of taxpayer money to put this yet again on the ballot and very disrespectful to once again try to pit people against each other…”
Now the Legislature is asking voters once more whether California should permit racial preferences in public education, especially in K–12 policy and programs now excluded from Prop 209’s constitutional protections.
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