The California Senate passed legislation Thursday that would require schools to teach about homosexuality only in a positive light. A similar bill passed the Legislature last year, but was vetoed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger.
SB 777, sponsored by openly gay Sen. Sheila Kuehl, seeks to amend two dozen sections of the state's Education Code to prohibit any instruction, school activity or instructional material that reflects "adversely upon persons because of their disability, gender, nationality, race or ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation.”
Ron Prentice, executive director of the California Family Council, said Kuehl is relentless in her pursuit to infiltrate California’s laws with definitions and protections for homosexaulity.
“This bill would re-engineer the curricula and culture of publicly funded schools,” he said.
Teaching material would have to be amended: "male and female" would be replaced by “gender defined as either real or imagined, and not limited to a person’s assigned sex at birth.”
Traditional, school-sponsored social activities, such as a king and queen elected by the student body, would be forced to either become gender-neutral or cease.
"This bill claims to eliminate bias in education. Instead, it is intolerant of opposing beliefs and perspectives," Prentice said. "It threatens an accurate portrayal of history and social science, in order for homosexuals to achieve a legislated sense of 'normalcy.' "
The bill now goes to the Assembly, which also passed a similar one last year.
