stay away from the fish...
Posted on 07/05/2011 7:19:47 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
Reporting from Sacramento — Textbooks and history classes in California schools would be required to include the contributions of gays, lesbians and transgender Americans under a proposal given final legislative approval in the Assembly on Tuesday and sent to Gov. Jerry Brown.
The measure sparked a spirited debate, including personal pleas from two openly gay lawmakers — Assembly Speaker John A. Pérez (D-Los Angeles) and Assemblyman Tom Ammiano (D-San Francisco). They said the bill would reduce the bullying of gay students and correct an oversight by history books.
"I don't want to be invisible in a textbook," Ammiano told his colleagues.
Assemblyman Tim Donnelly of San Bernardino was one of several Republicans who spoke against the measure, which he argued was promoting a "homosexual agenda" that many of his constituents do not support.
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This is so stupid. PC gone wild.
We're watching our country being dismantled piece by piece , and this insanity is just the latest example. Whoever beats the Marxist in 2012, I'm beginning to think we're beyond hope. I just feel bad for the kids coming up now, they'll never really know what a great country this truly was.
The people of California have said a resounding NO to unlimited taxation, to ethnic schools, to teaching in a foreign language, to enabling illegals to invade our schools and our cities, to the entire homosexual mythology about how marriage is somehow infringing upon the freedoms of gays. Rather than to play to these very clear statements from the electorate, Republicans in the state constantly try to win by being ‘liberalLITE’.
Put forward real candidates who espouse and promise to enact the conservative agenda the people of California have voted for again and again, and you'll take back Sacramento and the rest of the nation from the liberals. Run to the middle, and you lose your base, and make the ‘middle’ wonder why both sides say the liberals are right - the only argument they present is how fast they get there.
Can God really wait until 21 Dec. 2012?
It makes very good sense to start planning for what will take the place of a once-united country.
stay away from the fish...
Alan Turing was very important in WWII and for computer science:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Turing
still a stupid law through
This type of crap always starts in CA and before you know it , the entire country is embracing it. Look at gay marriage, a CA initiative , 20 years ago it was a crazy notion.
The only CA initiatives on gay marriage were Prop 22 and Prop 8 (state constitutional amendment) both defined marriage as between one man and one woman and both passed by wide margins.
Who knows how extensive revisionism could get. In the recent past it was claimed Lincoln was gay. I noticed even in the early 90s gays activists would 'adopt' peoples, living and historical, as gays even when it evidence was non existent. The question is what standards will the educational establishment use to determine who was or wasn't gay?
As to Alan Turing, never heard of him, but it does seem like he made some important discoveries. But not as monumental as Oppenheimer or Von Braun. And what are they going to say in the textbooks? Gay guy Turing discovered...and then he, as a gay-American...developed...in conclusion, gay man Turing...
Yes, it's true anytime the actual population gets to vote on this nonsense it's thrown out by pretty wide margins. This has to be imposed by a court, legislature or some bureaucracy. My point was like the weather, these insane notions start out on the left coast and make their way east. Our problem in the NE region is there really isn't ballot initiative so the well funded gay lobby only needs to intimidate a small group of officials, rather than convince a majority of people.
Turing invented the Turing test for artificial intelligence.
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The #1 contribution of gays: AIDS. But I am sure they will NOT mention that.
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