Posted on 04/14/2011 5:55:16 PM PDT by chuckee
SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people would be added to the lengthy list of social and ethnic groups that public schools must include in social studies lessons under a landmark bill passed Thursday by the California Senate. If the bill is adopted by the state Assembly and signed by Gov. Jerry Brown, California would become the first state to require the teaching of gay history. Supporters say the move is needed to counter anti-gay stereotypes and beliefs that make children in those groups vulnerable to bullying and suicide. Opponents counter that such instruction would further burden an already crowded curriculum and expose students to a subject that some parents find objectionable. The legislation, sponsored by Democratic Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco, passed on a 23-14 party line vote. It also would add disabled people to the curriculum. Appealing to colleagues for support, Leno said gay children still struggle routinely with verbal and physical abuse at school, even though society is more accepting than when he was a gay youth in the 1960s. "We are second-class citizens and children are listening," he said. "When they see their teachers don't step up to the plate when their classmate is being harassed literally to death, they are listening and they get the message that there is something wrong with those people." Republican Sen. Doug La Malfa of Butte opposed the bill. "I'm deeply troubled kids would have to contemplate at a very, very early age, when many of us are teaching abstinence ... what is sexuality," he said. California law already requires schools to cover the contributions to the state and nation of women, African Americans, Mexican Americans, entrepreneurs, Asian Americans, European Americans, American Indians and labor.
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Yeah, and they only hold hands and maybe steal a kiss once in a while . . . yeah, that's it.
I wonder if they'll delve into the rather high percentage of homosexuality with our biggest historical serial killers . . . Oh, I'm sure of that!
You mean it might be one-sided?
I'm sure they'll address the fact that the male homosexual lives to an average age of 39 if he has AIDS and that, even if he doesn't have AIDS, he'll have a life expectancy of only 41. Can't wait to see that in their textbooks . . . much shorter life expectancy than that of a smoker!
My state is so screwed up, I doubt it will ever be fixed..its too far gone to be saved. If I have kids, they get home schooled, that simple. I would NEVER put them in the public school system, heck I don’t even trust private schools knowing this kind of garbage is being taught. Its just more of the liberal agenda, trying to push their disgusting, perverted gay agenda down our throats
I look forward with interest to a history of the transgendered in Medieval Europe.
When studying the Stonewall Uprising, will students hear only the gay patrons’ side of the story, or will they get to read the police reports too?
Let’s call it what it is....Solicitation.
I think they should start with the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.
Note to all: Craig’s List has far more photographically graphic (and grotesque) material than anything on these queer advocacy sites.
South Florida has South Beach and Key West, where Queer Nation is actually “in your face”, on display, and suffering the consequences.
HAGS Syndrome is spreading as one would expect.
With apologies to Tom Lehrer,
“turns out there was a reason,
Queer is out of season, ...”
And the public should pay for this ‘education’ why?
So they are going to spend course time learning about how the mob ran gay bars in NYC and some queers rioted when their speakeasy got shut down?
They are going to learn about how a Democrat congressman had sex with a teenage aide and was applauded for it at the time of his death at the same time Democrats were demonizing 2 Republican homosexuals, one whom reportedly tapped his toes on the floor of an airport and the other who allegedly emailed a Democrat aide some sexual banter and then the Democrats and media chose to sit on it until the Fall of 2006 and lambaste the GOP for “knowing and doing nothing!”?
They are going to learn that a square peg CAN fit in a round hole?
They should also be sure to write about famous alcoholics and kleptomaniacs, they were BORN THAT WAY.
I don’t see where you get that nonsense that homosexuals invented fire and the wheel.
Everyone knows that it was baby boom generation who invented SEX.
When you are 11 years old, 41 sounds “old”.
Homosexuals have to find new recruits somehow.
LMAO!!
Get out of that place. Run, don't walk.
Good point.
Time to build a fence between California and America.
Liberals, especially retired, are flocking to the Appalachians and bringing their marxist, entitlement mentality with them. They have destroyed their states and flee to destroy yet again.
How gay...
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