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[dv8nation.livejournal.com]

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/15/us/15gay.html?_r=2&hp

California 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.

Comments

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Sparta might beg to differ with that, as would any history of the wars of the Greeks. The Christian hatred of sex also explains for instance some of those blood libels aimed at the Jews.....

[rasilio.livejournal.com]

Oh so Sparta became the dominant military power in Greece specifically because they commonly practiced Homosexuality? Seriously? I mean it's not like Homosexuality and pederasty were common in any of the other greek city states at the time and of course we all know that the entire crux of the war with the Persians was just because Leonidas wouldn't give Xerxes a reach around right?

Or you know maybe that whole homosexuality thing is not so important when you're getting 2 weeks to cover the entirety of ancient Greek Culture and history

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

Not Sparta. Thebes, which kicked Spartan ass. That's why they'd beg to differ. The elite Theban units smashed up the one Classical Age fascist polis so bad it never recovered.

[onefatmusicnerd.livejournal.com]

According to Xenophon, the Spartans thought that sexual relations were too trivial to be a consideration in matters of talent.

[underlankers.livejournal.com]

I was referring to the Battle of Leuctra, where the all-gay Sacred Band ended Spartan military power for the rest of the Polis's existence.