Gay unselor's firg at Indiana Catholic school OK'd by urt

Contents:

• SHOULD SCHOOLS TEACH HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS AMERI?
• GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT
• ACTOR TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS CONTROVERSY

SHOULD SCHOOLS TEACH HISTORY OF GAY RIGHTS AMERI?

" It stat that "the teachg of history the Uned Stat shall clu a study of the rol and ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people the history of this untry. Dpe this new wave of efforts to tegrate LGBT ntent to the classroom, six stat – Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi, Oklahoma, South Carola and Texas – still have laws prohibg the "promotn of homosexualy. " The laws, also known as "no pro homo" laws, prohib schools om teachg lbian, gay or bisexual people or topics a posive light health or sexual tn class.

Alabama law, for example, stat that when discsg sexual health tn, "class mt emphasize, a factual manner and om a 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. Old fears about gay people are beg bed wh newer ncerns—and newly veloped polil tools. 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.

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.

GAY UNSELOR'S FIRG BY INDIANAPOLIS CATHOLIC SCHOOL PERMTED BY FERAL APPEALS URT

“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.

Supreme Court le that employe nnot be fired for beg gay.

“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.

ACTOR TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE SPARKS CONTROVERSY

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.

Supreme Court’s 2015 lg tablishg the right of gay people to marry, said Murib. Should they regnize the name of ex nun Jean O'Leary who beme a gay rights activist and -found Natnal Comg Out Day?

The Illois law stat that "the teachg of history of the Uned Stat shall clu a study of the rol and ntributns of lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr people the history of this untry and this state. ”A rear asked me whether I thought Geia would ever nsir such a any time fact, I thk ’s more likely we would see a Geia lawmaker attempt to follow Alabama’s example and ban mentn of homosexualy schools. Alabama is among six stat that have passed what is sometim lled “no promo homo” laws.

Acrdg to the Gay, Lbian & Straight Edutn Network:Laws prohibg the "promotn of homosexualy" are lol or state tn laws that exprsly forbid teachers of health/sexualy tn om discsg lbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) people or topics a posive light – if at all. Acrdg to GLSEN, the Alabama law appli to sexual health tn where class “mt emphasize, 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. ”In South Carola, health tn “may not clu a discsn of alternate sexual liftyl om heterosexual relatnships cludg, but not limed to, homosexual relatnships except the ntext of stctn ncerng sexually transmted diseas.

”But there is a move away om such laws, acrdg to GLSEN:For example, North Carola, Arizona, Utah, and several other stat repealed existg "no promo homo" provisns the procs of revisg their larger sexual health tn laws. Natnally, repealg the laws is polilly popular, pecially as current trends ph sexual tn the directn of mandatg factually and scientifilly accurate ntent around HIV and Jersey and Colorado also passed laws last year llg for the cln of LGBTQ people and other margalized groups tn the New Jersey law, schools mt teach about the polil, enomic and social ntributns of gay and transgenr people, as well as those wh Colorado bill requir stunts to learn the "the history, culture, and social ntributns of Amerin Indians, Latos, Ain Amerins, and Asian Amerins, the lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr dividuals wh the mory groups, the ntributns and persecutn of relig mori, and the tersectnaly of signifint social and cultural featur wh the muni. When he took office a year ago, Jared Polis was the first openly gay man elected ernor Amerin history.