(SACRAMENTO, Calif.) — Gov. Jerry Brown has signed a bill making California the first state in the nation to add lessons about gays and lesbians to social studies classes in public schools.
Brown, a Democrat, signed the landmark bill requiring public schools to include the contributions of people who are gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender in social studies curriculum. The Democratic-majority Legislature had passed the bill last week on a largely party-line vote.
"History should be honest," the governor said in a statement Thursday. "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."
Brown signed the bill Wednesday, but announced on Thursday that he had done so.
The bill has drawn criticism from some churches and conservative groups that argue such instruction would expose students to a subject that some parents find objectionable.
Republican lawmakers who opposed the bill had called it a well-intentioned but ill-conceived bill. Some raised concerns that it would indoctrinate children to accept homosexuality.
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12 comments:
What does one's sexual orientation have to do with his or her contribution to history? This time, California has really done it! No wonder the state has the reputation of being wacko!
So now it's mandatory 'gay' history..
They should be sure to include the part about Sodom and Gomorrah..
I can give you a lesson that covere it.
Lesson: 2 men decided they wanted to marry and live together. Both men died of aids.
Good. We need to know the truth about our so-called Founding Fathers.
There really is no gay "history." Ten years is not history.
Obama will be the Teacher + talk about his uncle making love to him when he was a kid!!
4:45- Obviously you have a third grade education and must be one of the guys who lives under a rock in the Geico commercial. Your comment was one of the most ignorant comments that I've ever read.
11:16, well put. That sounds like a comment that would have made 30 years ago, so it does sound as if the writer has been living under a rock all these years. Hard to fathom such ignorance.
Whats next pedophile history?
The land of fruits and nuts leading the way!
9:35- no, MORON history. I hear you'll be on the cover of the textbook.
9:35- no, MORON history. I hear you'll be on the cover of the textbook.
July 16, 2011 8:57 PM
and you will be the one they will be quoting and writing about. Tell the truth, you can't wait to have your life story finally published.
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