Thanks to a new state law enacted last month, California’s private schools, and even relig schools, face pulsn to jo the ernment schools promotg homosexualy, officially transformg them to doctratn centers for the “gay liftyle.”
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- GAY FLORIDA RINT SPEAKS OUT AGAST LGBTQ+ DOCTRATN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- GAY ACTIVIST: OF URSE OUR GOAL IS TO ‘DOCTRATE CHILDREN TO LGBTQ AGENDA’
- GAY DOCTRATN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
- NEW LAWS SET TO TURN CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS TO GAY INDOCTRATN CENTERS
- UNHGED PARENT ACC BULLIED GAY STUNT OF “DOCTRATN” DURG MTEE HEARG
GAY FLORIDA RINT SPEAKS OUT AGAST LGBTQ+ DOCTRATN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
Introductn In recent years, activist groups have strengthened prsur on legislators and tors to require the teachg of radil Lbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgenr (LGBT) iology schools. They argue that cln and non-discrimatn toward stunts who intify as gay or transgenr require radil revisn of curricula. * gay indoctrination in schools *
This is jt htg you the face, ” said Chris Sanrs, the executive director of the Tennsee Equaly Project, a gay-rights group, potg to a bill that statethat would prohib materials that “promote, normalize, support, or addrs” LGBTQ issu.
GAY ACTIVIST: OF URSE OUR GOAL IS TO ‘DOCTRATE CHILDREN TO LGBTQ AGENDA’
* gay indoctrination in schools *
Those that did, though, varly say they’re troducg them to guard parents’ rights or prevent doctratn by teachers, though they were often unclear about what specific impact they expect the laws to John Kavanagh, Arizona, was one of the few lawmakers who agreed to speak on the rerd about the bill he sponsored, which would require parents to give approval for their children to jo gay-straight allianc at schools or other such clubs. “Some of this is polil grandstandg and vote-panrg, but there’s also an thentic anxiety around parents and nonparents alike that Ameri’s children are beg Pied-Pipered by the vague and distant threats, they’re vadg the muny through the schools, ” said Adam Laats, a profsor of tn and history at the State Universy of New York, ia that gay teachers are recg stunts who need to be protected is a particularly vic theme that rells the latter half of the 20th century, Laats said, which at that time rulted thefirg of sr of teachers—a procs ually spearhead by state lawmakers, but was also supported by teachers’ unns, ci, and others. “And I thk there is a very strong iologil current that really do believe the heart and soul of Ameri is at stake and beg threatened by trans people, by gays and lbians, by undocumented people, that is lookg to stutnalize the versn of Ameri they want to see.
GAY DOCTRATN PUBLIC SCHOOLS
What mak the surge of legislative tert particularly plited is that stat have historilly not provid much guidance on how their schools should addrs LGBTQ the 1980s and 1990s, durg the height of the HIV epimic, a number of stat passed laws proscribg mentn of homosexualy; many, but not all, have sce been rolled back.
Natnal pollg shows most Amerins are fortable wh gay and lbian teachers and about six 10 say they are fortable wh an elementary level transgenr teacher, acrdg to an analysis by the Survey Center on Amerin Life, a project of the Amerin Enterprise Instute, a thk tank. (Jenn Ackerman /for The Washgton Post)Last year, Cas Elementary School got s first LGBTQ stunt middle and high schools Marysville, Wash., a nservative slice of the state, had long offered Gay-Straight Alliance, or GSA, clubs. One stunt member, who is gay and spoke on the ndn of anonymy out of fear of harassment, said membership temporarily halved as timidated stunts stayed stunt, who said others at school have threatened to ph her down the stairs for beg gay, said that after the drag show ntroversy, other stunts started a mor that the GSA club hir prostut and nicknamed “The Prostute Club.
NEW LAWS SET TO TURN CALIFORNIA SCHOOLS TO GAY INDOCTRATN CENTERS
The law New Jersey requir schools to clu the “polil, social, and enomic ntributns of…lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people” “an appropriate place the curriculum of middle school and high school stunts. A brief -thored by the HRC; the Gay, Lbian, Straight Edutn Network (GLSEN); Planned Parenthood; and several other groups advot that sex tn clu “rmatn for all stunts about sexual orientatn and genr inty that is medilly accurate and age-appropriate.
For example, the GLSEN suggts that teachers “[a]cknowledge the gay inty of Francis Ban (creator of the Scientific Method) or Frieda Kahlo’s bisexualy when studyg their works, ” though Ban’s homosexualy is disputed and the relevance of Kahlo’s sexual orientatn to her art is.
Many LGBT youth have anized gay-straight allianc (GSAs), which n serve as important rourc for stunts and as supportive spac to unteract bullyg and stutnal silence about issu of importance to them. When stunts themselv began anizg the 1990s, many school admistrators across the US unsuccsfully fought to rtrict the formatn and operatn of gay-straight allianc (GSAs) schools, argug that the clubs were appropriate for youth.
UNHGED PARENT ACC BULLIED GAY STUNT OF “DOCTRATN” DURG MTEE HEARG
One of the most overt mpaigns to keep LGBT topics out of schools was the Briggs Iniative, a ballot measure California 1978 that would have prohibed “the advotg, solicg, imposg, enuragg or promotg of private or public homosexual activy directed at, or likely to e to the attentn of, schoolchildren and/or other employe. Alabama state law dictat that “[c]ourse materials and stctn that relate to sexual tn or sexually transmted diseas should clu all of the followg elements … [a]n emphasis, a factual manner and om a public health perspective, that homosexualy is not a liftyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual nduct is a crimal offense unr the laws of the state. Texas state law specifi that the Department of State Health Servic “shall give prry to velopg mol tn programs for persons younger than 18 years of age, ” and “[t]he materials the tn programs tend for persons younger than 18 years of age mt … state that homosexual nduct is not an acceptable liftyle and is a crimal offense unr Sectn 21.
Utah state law prohibs public schools om g materials for “muny and personal health, physlogy, personal hygiene, and preventn of munible disease” that clu stctn “the trici of terurse, sexual stimulatn, or erotic behavr; the advocy of homosexualy; the advocy or enuragement of the e of ntraceptive methods or vic; or the advocy of sexual activy outsi marriage.
At tim, this was bee they were unsure what meant to “advote” or “promote” homosexualy and feared they would face repercsns om parents or admistrators if they were too ank or supportive of stunts. At other tim, teachers refed to teach the antiquated, discrimatory msag that some no promo homo laws require them to nvey when homosexualy is discsed, and so cled to addrs LGBT topics at all.