Recently Governor Brown signed SB 48, a bill that adds Asian-Pacific, the
disabled and the lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgendered community in the
state education code to require accurate positive contributions from the
people who make up the state of California.

Because the LGBT community got added to the section of the education code
in the teaching of social science, traditional values advocates are on the
warpath to make sure the community gets erased from our K-12 social science
textbooks. The proponents from the repeal movement are willing to lie for
the lord to make sure social science gets saved from the queers by scaring
parents, particularly mothers to gain the support to win repeal by stating
that "homosexuality will be taught in Kindergarten" and other
choice phrases that led to Proposition 8 having a narrow victory in 2008.
In SB 48's text it states that the education is locally determined and age
appropriate. Mark Leno or Ellen DeGeneres is not going to write the history
curriculum. In Kern County you might see the information only in the
textbooks, but in Los Angeles County you might have more detailed lessons.

Proponents of the repeal want to make it legal where educators can give
hostile lectures as in Florida where Jerry Buell expresses his hostility to
groups he disagrees with such as LGBT people and brings his dogma to the
classroom. Educators such as Jerry have the right to free speech such as
posting his diatribes on Facebook, but educators have a responsibility to
be professional, inclusive and welcoming when they deliver their lessons to
the students.


When LGBT people remain invisible in our society, it helps lead to a
climate of hostility due to the ignorance spread within. Groups such as the
Capitol Resource Institute and Focus on the Family want to make sure the
new generation has new recruits and if LGBT people become humanized in our
K-12 social science education then their cause will die out. If students
knew that an African American gay man, Banyard Rustin helped to improve
Martin Luther King's civil rights campaigning and a gay man named Alan
Turing in Britain helped to unlock Nazi Germany's secret codes. Then maybe
we will have a better understanding of LGBT people in the school house
walls and reduce the hostilities.

The proponents of the SB 48 repeal should not be underestimated; they have
an established network due to their weekly meetings at church. It is likely
that these signatures might be delivered to the secretary of state by the
end of October. I hope that Californians critically examine the advertising
from both sides on this issue and separate fact from fiction.
  
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