Posted on 08/22/2006 1:23:34 PM PDT by ChessMan
Legislation Would Dictate Gay and Lesbian Teaching Materials
Written for the web by Marcey Brightwell, Reporter
Conservative groups are blasting a bill that would dictate the way public school teaching materials reflect gay and lesbians. The State Assembly passed Senate Bill 1437 Monday, prohibiting classroom instruction materials that reflect "adversely" on a person's homosexuality.
"We're just the latest community to come along and say, 'Look, we're now the targets, we need protection,'" said the bill's author, Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Los Angeles.
Kuehl said the bill is needed to help protect gay and lesbian students from discrimination and prevent hostile learning environments. But Republican lawmakers oppose the bill, calling it an attempt to push a "gay agenda" on young students.
"Once again, (they're) trying to use the schools as a tool to push an agenda contrary to many parents beliefs onto the children, said Assemblyman Ray Haynes, R-Murrieta. "This is just one star in that constellation of bad bills."
The measure approved Monday is a watered-down version of Kuehl's earlier proposal. Kuehl originally wanted to require California school textbooks to reflect the positive contributions of gays and lesbians in state history. The Los Angeles Democrat said she reluctantly removed that provision earlier this month to avoid a certain veto by Gov. Schwarzenegger.
"I was disappointed. I don't think there's any harm to people in school to knowing that a few people that they already admire were gay or lesbian," Kuehl said. "But I think this still moves the ball forward a little bit."
Republicans say requiring information about a historical figure's sexual orientation in school textbooks is unnecessary and irrelevant.
"Quite frankly I don't care who Abe Lincoln slept with and what his sexual orientation was," Haynes said. "And I don't care who George Washington slept with and what his sexual orientation was. And our history books should not care either."
The legislation now goes back to the Senate for a concurrence vote. Then it will go to the governor's desk. Christian conservative groups are lobbying Schwarzenegger to veto the bill. The governor has not officially indicated what he'll do with the measure, but has said he's reluctant to have the state "micromanage" local school instructional materials.
Separation of school and state BUMP!
Oh how I would to have a curriculum called white studies.
Oh yes, this is just the liberal re-writing of history while injecting the queer agenda into the lives of our children. So very typical of our government liberal indoctrination camps -- where the kids come out and many cannot read or write well, but they sure know how to treat queers.
If I had to educate my two kids again, they would not set foot in a liberal goverment conditioning camp. No way in hell.
If they don't get to them in the public schools, they'll get to them eventually in the corporate world where employees are forced to undergo diversity training and parrot back the politically correct answers.
so now the homosexuals are claiming George Washington too?!!!
Geeze, they are going to claim all the presidents one by one. (of course if Hitlary gets in then that will be the one they actually deny)
Is "da gov" going to veto this as promissed?
BUT they said it was about consenting adults in private. You mean they lied and are trying to put it before minors in public schools????
That's about it, weegee. I'm getting a little sick of the lies. It's not enough to pull and home school your kids. We pay taxes, they should teach what we want and that's a fact.
i'd agree to more gay tv if they agree to less gay education
see also
Gays not represented well on TV, study finds
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1688058/posts
ugh...ping
Just the ticket for Homofornia.
"(i.e. like the notion that "Jesus was black" gaining popular acceptance)"
Next we'll hear that Jesus was actually an Eskimo or maybe an Aborigeni.
I like your thinking. However, it drags me toward a conclusion that there isn't a 'right' but only a 'coexistence.' The thing of it is, I don't go around talking about my sexcapades, nor do I want to hear about others'. If that makes me a prude, I suggest the world could do with a few more of us!
"...textbooks to reflect the positive contributions of heterosexuals in state history."
That wouldn't pass. It's totally opposite to the message they want to convey. Let's try this one...
"...textbooks to reflect the positive contributions of Jews and Christians in state history."
Those are no-no's. How about these...
"...textbooks to reflect the positive contributions of Bahais, Buddhists, Hindus, Sikhs, etc. in state history."
No point there. It's not controversial enough and homosexuals aren't addressed. How about...
"...textbooks to reflect the positive contributions of Islamics in state history."
I think that's been done or at least, it's in the works. Another try....
"...textbooks to reflect the positive contributions of Caucasians in state history."
Definitely not passable unless all of them were homosexuals and their "life partners" were of a different race or one or both were Islamic, atheist, new age or had political socialist/communist/green/progressive/liberal leanings.
"...textbooks to reflect the positive contributions of Blacks and Latinos in state history."
Oh wait a minute... those were done already. How about...
"...textbooks to reflect the positive contributions of trans-gendered people in state history."
That would work.
It's all fair, right?
How about a "don't ask, don't tell, don't wanna know" policy instead?
An autralian historian has put forth the position that much of the hedonistic perception of the ancient world is dead wrong and an mischaracterizaiton of the history.
He says that at one point christian puritans did it in order to facilitate their positions as being better, then the free love movement took it on in order to promote their own hedonistic lifestyles.
His position is that the ancient world was less sexual and depicted human "parts" because that is what happened in those agrarian based societies. (ie statues etc.)
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