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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