California Governor Signs Landmark Bill Requiring Teaching of Gay History

[Slathar]

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?s...tics&id=8249564

Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a landmark bill adding lessons about gay history to social studies classes in California's public schools.

Brown, a Democrat, signed the bill Thursday, making California the first state in the nation to require public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum.

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Democratic state Sen. Mark Leno of San Francisco, the bill's author, has said that teaching gay history in public schools will teach students to be more accepting of gays and lesbians.



finally

[Hasbinbad]

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.

^WHY AREN'T THESE PEOPLE BEING HEARD?^

[Slathar]

Originally Posted by Hasbinbad [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

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.

^WHY AREN'T THESE PEOPLE BEING HEARD?^

these kind of people should be round up and shipped to texas where they can eat themselves to death with the rest of the religious shitbags who contribute to national debt by poor dietary choices.

[nalkin]

Yiblaan is the being who opened my eyes to gays, homesexuals, and other misanthropes. The first and only encounter I had to gay culture before Flaming Gaze was watching nude women wrastling in the mud neked and slippery. But he has shown me that gay people can be normal people with decent qualities. He has cleared any prejudice I once had and has shown me that gays can be successful in life.

[Ektar]

I've got nothing against gay anything and everything, but to force gay history means throwing out something more important to the grand scheme of history. It's not like current history curricula purposely leave out gay contributions. If a gay person contributes something to history, he goes in; if a straight person contributes something to history, he goes in.



idk to what extent this whole thread is trolling or whatever the fuck you people like to do, but this also recently came up elsewhere in my life recently about forcing women studies into the curriculum and it's the same exact thing.

[Zereh]

Which just just goes to show that what they teach isn't really history at all. It's propaganda crammed down our throats in the name of education. They just edit out all of the bits that are unflattering to whomever they consider the golden child of any conflict. Or better yet just ignore contributions if you're not of the correct persuasion (be that race, gender or sexual).

I think our schools should switch history books with those they use in ohhh, let's say China, or from one of the former USSR states or Pakistan for a couple years to shake things up a bit.

[naez]

I cant even name any important gays. Richard Simmons? Elton John?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBS-fGJUVNY

[Zereh]

Probably because most of them never admitted that they were; or if people did know, it wasn't something that was discussed.

[Harrison]

Originally Posted by Ektar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

I've got nothing against gay anything and everything, but to force gay history means throwing out something more important to the grand scheme of history. It's not like current history curricula purposely leave out gay contributions. If a gay person contributes something to history, he goes in; if a straight person contributes something to history, he goes in.



idk to what extent this whole thread is trolling or whatever the fuck you people like to do, but this also recently came up elsewhere in my life recently about forcing women studies into the curriculum and it's the same exact thing.

Slathar is trolling. He doesn't contribute to the community and is a piece of shit. You knew this Ektar [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

[Zereh]

^^ So says the paragon of virtue