CA Mandates LGBT History Lessons

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CA Mandates LGBT History Lessons

Special Report - July 18, 2011
Last week, California became the first state in the nation to enact a law requiring the teaching of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) history in the state’s public school classrooms. California Governor Jerry Brown signed the controversial legislation, SB 48-The Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act, into law on July 13. The measure, which passed the California Senate in April and the Assembly in early July, amends the California educational code to “require instruction in social sciences to include a study of the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, persons with disabilities, and members of other cultural groups, to the development of California and the United States.” According to Equality California, one of several pro-homosexual advocacy groups that supported the enactment of SB 48, the law “would also prohibit discriminatory instruction and discriminatory materials from being adopted by the State Board of Education.” This includes, according to SB 48, “any sectarian or denominational doctrine or propaganda contrary to law.”

“History should be honest,” Governor Brown said in a statement announcing his signing of SB 48. “This bill revises existing laws that prohibit discrimination in education and ensures that the important contributions of Americans from all backgrounds and walks of life are included in our history books.”

Randy Thomasson, president of SaveCalifornia.com, a pro-family group that led the opposition to SB 48 in the state, described the governor’s signing of the bill, and the bill itself, as a “trampling of parental rights,” and warned of the significant dangers of the law for children. “SB 48 has no parental opt-out,” Mr. Thomasson noted in a statement. “The only way parents can opt-out their kids from this immoral indoctrination is to opt them out the entire public school system, which is no longer for morally-sensitive parents and their children.”

Thomasson added, “With the signing of SB 48, even more California parents will be shocked to see the glorification of Harvey Milk and other homosexual-bisexual-transsexual role models in school textbooks. SB 48 is the eighth school sexual indoctrination law forcing immorality on kids in California K-12 schools. It’s time for parents who love their children to match their words with deeds and do what's necessary to get them out of the immoral government schools and into the safe havens of homeschooling and church schools.”

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The School Violence Prevention Act - FNC- Winter 2010
Connecting the Dots of the Homosexual Agenda - FNC - May/June, 2009
LGBT Advocates Celebrate New Laws - July 13, 2009
Pro-Homosexual Bias Trumps Parental Rights- February 4, 2008
Massachusetts Court Mandates Homosexual Curriculum - February 28, 2007