http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/news/atoz/article_1127886.php
SACRAMENTO – Someday soon, school textbooks in California could be required to include a reference to someone like Bayard Rustin.
Never heard of him? He was a colleague of Martin Luther King, Jr., a low-profile organizer largely forgotten for his behind-the-scenes role in the civil rights movement.
But under a bill by Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica, which passed the Senate Education Committee on Wednesday, Rustin would be of particular educational value because he was also gay.
"If that’s not social engineering," said committee member Sen. Bill Morrow, R-Oceanside, "then I don't know what is."
"I'm sure Dr. King would agree with you," Kuehl retorted, "and would be in favor of social engineering."
Patient Zero (the Air Canada steward responsible for the early AIDS infestation) gets my vote for the gay who contributed the most to American society.
Doubt he'll make the text-books, though.
With idiocy like this, they dont have time to teach about stuff like - say, Franklin, Edison, Washington, Jefferson, Ford, JP Morgan, Cotton Mather, TR, etc.
Find any group of 3% or more of Americans - Polish-Americans, Electrical engineers, people under 5' - and insist we cover them in history and textbooks and tell people
... wouldnt it be viewed as an absurd act of pandering or no educational value?!?