Californian Senator wants to gay up state’s textbooks
Former The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis TV star turned lesbo politico Sen. Sheila Kuehl (D-Santa Monica) has introduced a bill that could amp up homosexual and transgendered content in California’s textbooks.
Bill SB 1437 was passed by the Senate Education Committee last week and is due to hit the senate floor any day now, after which it will fall into Gov. Schwarzenegger’s hands, who, with his relatively positive record with queer-friendly bills, just might let it slide.
The bill demands that textbooks “accurately portray in an age-appropriate manner the cultural, racial, gender and sexual orientation diversity of our society”, and that it also include “the contributions of people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender.”
Criticism ranges from accusations of “twisting of what history textbooks are supposed to do” (the L.A. Times) to outright panic that it will bring society crashing down (right wing websites Free Republic, Spero News, and Local Liberty), but we at In Other Media are all for more diverse textbooks – especially for our more conservative brethren to the south.
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