True to their word, the failures that failed to bring the LGBT-inclusive FAIR Education Act (a.k.a. Bill SB48) to a vote has mounted a new effort—only this time, they’re not trying to repeal the entire law, they just want to remove LGBT Americans and sexual orientation from the topics covered in public school social studies classes.
Stop SB48’s original tagline was “It costs too much, it goes too far.” If they keep it, they will basically be saying that LGBT Americans somehow cost more money to cover than all the other ethnic and cultural groups inlcuded in the Fair Education Act. Or they could always go with the scare-mongering “indoctrination” claim—that old chestnut seems to always squeeze out a couple of dedicated whackos. Or they could always just lie again and tell people they’re signing a petition against child molestation.
Regardless, the group has 150 days to collect more than 504,760 signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot. That places their deadline almost four months after the January 1st law goes into effect. Perhaps Californians will be less likely to sign on when they realize that LGBT-inclusive history lessons haven’t turned their schoolchildren into a bunch of meth-snorting, queer disco sluts.
Darrell
Yeah, one would hope the fact the law will have already taken effect would help,
but look what they did with Prop 8. Interestingly enough, I don’t think it’s gonna
fly if they specifically target removing gays and lesbians from the list. If Harvey
Milk, et al. was able to get 58% of California to vote against banning gay school
teachers in 1978, then there should be NO excuse not to be able to fight back against
the repeal of this law.
Ian
Ooh, I do love a good meth-snorting-queer-disco-slut. 🙂
Mike in London UK
When will these religious loonies learn?
The people you are trying to erase from public view are the people you depend on: we wait your tables, we arrange your flowers, we do your IT, we are your hospital nurses, we serve you in high class boutiques.
Do not fuck with us.
Belfry
I had a strange dream last night.
I dreampt I went to stroke off and found something strange about my penis.
“What the hell? WHERE’D MY FORESKIN GO?”
“The Jews took it,” my pet cat said. “The Jews did.”
“AW SHIT.”
“You know, life really isn’t living worth living without a foreskin,” said my pet cat.
Stefan
They’re is no way they could do this (just remove the gay portions of the bill) and not have it be ruled unconstitutional.
B
No. 5 · Stefan wrote, “They’re is no way they could do this (just remove the gay portions of the bill) and not have it be ruled unconstitutional.”
… not true. http://e-lobbyist.com/gaits/text/74798 has a description of SB-48, including a summary by the legislative counsel: “This bill would require instruction in social sciences to also include a study of the role and contributions of Native Americans,
African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, and other ethnic and cultural groups, to the development of California and the United States.”
The link shows all the changes to state law introduced by SB-48. For example, they crossed out the phrase “black Americans, American Indians, Mexicans, Asians, Pacific Island people, and other ethnic groups” and replaced it with “Native Americans, African Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, and members of other ethnic and cultural
groups,”
Basically, SB-48 specifically lists LGBT Americans instead of implicitly (but less clearly) including them via the phrase “and other ethnic and cultural groups.” Laws do not become unconstitutional merely because of a failure to mention one particular group in a list of what are really examples.
Tike
You’ve got to be kidding me-it’s so trnasparntely clear now!
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Crysta
Its funny, they say Elementary School is too early to learn about LGBT, but THEY THEMSELVES do the same, when teaching their children to hate… Hypocrisy much?