As someone who aspires to teach History and Government to the secondary
grade students, I support California SB 48. The contributions of people who
happen to be part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community
should be included in history. Because LGBT people are not mentioned in our
textbooks they are invisible to the eyes of many students even though LGBT
youth are opening themselves to the world at a younger age and straight
students are becoming aware of them in their schools.

The reason why there is opposition to SB 48 is that the traditional values
community wants to keep the LGBT community invisible. They want to do the
final solution to the LGBT people like how American preachers such as Scott
Lively of Temecula, California flies to Uganda to advocate for the
extermination of LGBT people.

However traditional values advocates want to keep the LGBT community
invisible and make sure their youth maintain their world view, even though
they will be dealing with LGBT people in their daily lives such as at work
or as their neighbors. I just find it sad that when anything deals with
LGBT issues, they always say its sexualizing education. When an office
worker puts a picture of their straight spouse and children isn't that an
expression of your sexuality?

When we have a supportive school environment, school achievement improves.
For the conservatives who state that we should be focusing on improving our
state's abysmally low test scores, reading, writing and arithmetic first.
Bills such as AB 9 and SB 48 are key in helping to improve school
achievement. There is an actual study done in Oregon done by the Columbia
University school of public health that proves this fact. When people are
less likely to want to kill you or torment you where you are fearful that
you will get beaten up before our after school, you will want to be
attending school and not want to surrender to the bullies.

Without LGBT people we would likely of had an injured or dead President
Ford, the civil rights movement by Dr.Martin Luther King would not of been
as effective, World War II would of lasted longer and we would not have
powerful computers as we have today.

I do hope Governor Brown signs this bill, but with our initiative process I
am fearful that Frank Schubert and friends will make another campaign to
show that even in areas that elect left leaning Democrats they still can be
just as regressive as Alabama voters. This is why I advocate for California
to use the Initiative and Referendum process of Nevada where constitutional
amendments must be passed in two consecutive elections with the same
language.
  
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