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    Jerry Brown Signs Law Requiring Gay History in Public Schools

    Jerry Brown Signs Law Requiring Gay History in Public Schools

    California Governor Jerry Brown has signed into law a bill requiring the teaching of gay accomplishments in lesson plans and textbooks today, reports the Los Angeles Times. The legislation requires public schools to discuss the achievements of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender Americans in their social studies curriculum. "It’s an important step forward for the state of California,’’ said Gil Duran, a spokesman for the governor. "It revises existing law to make sure people are not excluded from history books. History should reflect reality." The bill passed through the Democratic-controlled Legislature last week by a mostly party-line vote. "The bill has drawn criticism from some churches and conservative groups that argue such instruction would expose students to a subject that some parents find objectionable," reports the Associated Press. It was sponsored by state Sen. Mark Leno who said "Denying LGBT people their rightful place in history gives our young people an inaccurate and incomplete view of the world around them." Meanwhile, Benjamin Lopez of the Traditional Values Coalition bristled, "We have failed at our core educational mission and yet we are now going to inject gay studies into the classrooms. Its absurd and offensive."

     

    33 comments

    • Mary  •  9 mths ago
      Why include their sexual identity,when you reveal others whom have contributed to the american experiance you discuss their contribution not their sexual identity. Just another way to indoctrinate our young children in the ca. public school system.
    • Autumn  •  10 mths ago
      Why is human sexuality considered important to our history. Important to anthropology, YES, but history? Let gaydum just been an interesting fact about people, and not the thing to drove them to do great things. In the end, I am sure sexuality played only a tiny part in the historical puzzle.
      • dan rathers drunk, again 10 mths ago
        Pretty soon they'll be teaching Lincoln was gay, Henry Ford was gay and the street light was invented by a gay.
      • Hamtree 10 mths ago
        Autumn it’s not about teaching sexuality it’s about teaching the gay civil rights movement and the large swaths of dissemination that straights placed on gays.
      • Lisa 10 mths ago
        This topic is OK to me but it needs to be reserved for high school and college kids.
    • Anthony Rose  •  10 mths ago
      as long as we single out groups of people, we are not going anywhere in society....
    • RandyR  •  10 mths ago
      Time to recall this POS.
    • John Dillinger  •  10 mths ago
      BEING A #$%$ IS A LIFESTYLE CHOICE.
      • Hamtree 10 mths ago
        No its not. However being an ignorant dipshit like yourself is a choice.
      • REVOLTNOW 10 mths ago
        THEY LOVE CACK IN THE CRACK & SPUNK IN THEIR TUM!
      • artie 10 mths ago
        f$%^ing moron
    • Monique B  •  10 mths ago
      These comments are sad. The whole point to this law is that LGTB people, regardingless of their legit contributions to history, are intentionally being excluded now because of their sexuality. This law is simply meant to tell history in the accurate sense, without exluding people for reasons like sexuality.
      • Barkley 10 mths ago
        They are not being excluded, just a discusiion of their sexual preferences is not being highlighted. Because it is not necessary!
    • A Yahoo! User  •  10 mths ago
      JERRY BROWN IS AN IDIOT AND ALL THE CALIFORNIANS WHO VOTED FOR HIM ARE FOOLS .I HATE CALIFORNIA MORE THAN I HATE MEXICO
      • REVOLTNOW 10 mths ago
        I agree, but California IS Mexico!
    • eduardk  •  10 mths ago
      Evolution in Califormia: Gay - Bisexual - Democrat...
    • Robin  •  10 mths ago
      Another reason for CA to drop into the ocean. Teaching kindergarterners? They don't even know what being queer is!!! Just one more way to brainwash our kids into being gay. Just start when they are really young, right? That way more of them will grow up to think they are gay, and then watch what kind of heartache comes from that.
    • ASHERBASHERS  •  10 mths ago
      The IOU state once again shows how loony they are on their one way trip to hell. Can't CA just fall into the ocean already. Liberalism is a disease.
      • artie 10 mths ago
        so is stupidity
      • artie 10 mths ago
        go watch anothe rfootball game you sick f$$k....Conservatism is the disease that is killing this nation...please someone shoot M Bachmann....she is the anti-christ
    • Glenn  •  10 mths ago
      It takes a pervert to teach perversion.
    • Eric  •  10 mths ago
      If we single out ONE group, then we must include ALL groups.
      Otherwise, this is a foolish and silly law which creates an elitist designation for homosexuals.
    • Jeff F  •  10 mths ago
      I'm all for equality but this law is just wrong. Did we need to pass laws to teach about the civil rights struggle or woman's rights, no. When society determines something is of historical significance they teach it. The fight for Gay rights is still so far from over. Forcing society to honor this struggle by LAW is just as wrong.
    • Yup  •  10 mths ago
      What "Contributions"? The consistant spread of the HIV/AIDS epidemic??
      Poor kids... history isn't about sexuality. This is really a shame.
    • matt  •  10 mths ago
      Next we should have a class; The History Who Were Left Handed. To be followed by; The History of People Who Were Dog Owners. You know, really shed some light on the context of historical ahhhhhh shut up, enough already. This just looks like California finding a way to waste more money (New Text Books).
    • hoyrobin  •  10 mths ago
      Just a short response to all the homophobic comments: If African-American history is part of our lessons in history class, how is LGBT history any different? Aren't LGBT's striving for equal rights, just as how African-Americans did in the past?
    • Thomas  •  10 mths ago
      California continues to shoot itself in the foot, spinning out of control to its own eventual ruin!
    • onto summer  •  10 mths ago
      well is'nt that special... One more reason why the public school system sucks
    • dan rathers drunk, again  •  10 mths ago
      This is going to attract jobs and families to California?
    • Groucho Marxist  •  10 mths ago
      Gay accomplishments? Start with AIDS and work your way down.
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