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talkpoliticsCalifornia will become the first state to require public schools to teach gay and lesbian history.
As expected, Gov. Jerry Brown signed a bill on Thursday that mandates that the contributions of gays and lesbians in the state and the country be included in social science instruction and in textbooks. School districts will have until next January to begin implementing the new law, which was also promoted in part as a way to combat bullying of gay and lesbian students.
Well, now this is a surprise.After Prop 8 I was forced to revise my opinion on just how progressive California really was. But this makes me think that maybe things might not have been what I though. Sure, their will be opposition. But while this will take some time to fully kick in I think that the genie is out of the bottle and as California goes so goes the rest of the nation. However more slowly.
With this and the ruling against DADT it looks like gay rights is really picking up some steam.
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Date: 15/7/11 17:38 (UTC)Schools are already failing to teach basic skills and now you want to waste even more time with teachers telling 1st graders who don't even know what sex is yet, "Hey isn't this cool, this important person was also Gay" and then trying to deal with the inevitable followup of "What does Gay mean?".
I am all for gay rights and my only criticism of the Gay rights movement is that they are not willing to go far enough in winning civil rights for non mainstream sexuality (where is the support for Swinging, BDSM, and Polyamory?) but seriously "gay contributions to history" is irrelevant, the contribution is what matters, not who they were sleeping with and we should not be wasting valuable class time on irrelevancies like this.
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Date: 16/7/11 19:21 (UTC)