Louisiana's 'Don't Say Gay' bill pass, advanc to Senate | AP News

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• LOUISIANA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS, ADVANC TO SENATE
• LOUISIANA IS THE LATT STATE TO FILE S OWN 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

LOUISIANA’S ‘DON’T SAY GAY’ BILL PASS, ADVANC TO SENATE

Stt Wiener (D-San Francis), said the dispary current state law that SB 145 will addrs is a remnant of California’s old anti-sodomy laws, many sce repealed, that were tend to crimalize sex between gay tent of SB 145, he said, is to addrs s which two people close age — an 18-year-old and 17-year-old datg high school, for example — are a sexual relatnship. “It didn’t bee a problem until the gay people me forward and said please treat the same way.

As several reliably red stat adopt legislatn that prohibs school employe om teachg or discsg sexual orientatn and genr inty the classroom, Louisiana advanced s own “Don’t Say Gay” bill Wednday, April 26, 2023. (AP) — As Republin-drafted legislatn that prohibs school employe om teachg sexual orientatn or genr inty the classroom mounts, Louisiana lawmakers advanced their own “Don’t Say Gay” bill legislative ssn season, nservativ across the untry have filed bills takg aim at nearly every facet of transgenr existence, om health re to athletics to bathroom accs.

Louisiana’s bill is siar to legislatn that Florida passed last year, which crics have dubbed the “Don’t Say Gay” law.

LOUISIANA IS THE LATT STATE TO FILE S OWN 'DON’T SAY GAY' BILL FOR PUBLIC SCHOOLS

So far, at least three other stat — Alabama, Arkansas and Kentucky — have enacted siar “Don’t Say Gay” laws. Addnally, they say would have a negative effect on teachers who fear beg penalized for mentng anythg related to homosexualy.

Louisiana beme the latt state to file a Florida-style “Don’t Say Gay” bill when state Rep. ” This uld mean elimatg books wh LGBTQ characters or removg people who intified as gay or lbian om history uld also mean barrg stunts wh gay parents om participatg class discsns when that rmatn is relevant.

For example, clus a measure that allows parents to opt their children out of unselg and mental health servic and giv them the power to sue schools, at the district’s st, if they thk any part of the bill has been least four stat addn to Florida had troduced “Don’t Say Gay” bills as of mid-Febary, acrdg to The Hill. A recent draft of the state’s revised standards asked stunts to analyze “the major ntributns and limatns placed on diverse groups” cludg “LGBT people, ” but that versn was later isn’t the first time stat have tried to pass legislatn rtrictg classroom discsn of genr and sexualy; rather 's jt a new least a half-dozen stat, cludg Louisiana, already have “no promo homo” laws place that lim how, or whether, teachers n talk about LGBTQ issu wh stunts.

“No sex tn urse offered the public schools of the state shall utilize any sexually-explic materials pictg male or female homosexual activy, ” the policy a statement Thursday, SarahJane Guidry, executive director of Fom for Equaly, said Horton’s bill was meant to “stigmatize LGBTQ people, isolate LGBTQ kids and make teachers fearful of providg safe, clive classrooms. In an terview wh Louisiana Illumator reporter Julie O’Donoghue, Horton reportedly disagreed wh the bill’s scriptn as “Don’t Say Gay” legislatn, argug her motivatn was to protect children “om nversatns that are not age appropriate. The Louisiana Hoe ma a rare procral move on Tuday that revived the state's versn of a "don't say gay" bill that would prohib public school teachers om talkg about sexual orientatn or genr inty bill had been rejected last week by the state's Hoe tn mtee by a bipartisan vote of 7-4.

\u201cLouisiana troduc HB837, the worst "Don't say gay or trans" bill yet.