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Calif. moves to comply with 2011 law that requires teaching of LGBT history
SAN FRANCISCO — California education officials took the first step this week toward complying with a law that requires public schools to include prominent gay people and gay rights’ milestones in the curriculum, adopting a set of classroom material guidelines that prohibit “pejorative descriptions” based on sexual orientation and gender identity.
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Repeal effort of California’s FAIR Education Act cleared for signatures
SAN FRANCISCO — State officials have given anti-gay activists the go-ahead to gather petition signatures to repeal Senate Bill 48, also known as the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful Education Act. The law requires that California school students be taught about the historical contributions of LGBT people.
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California schools flummoxed about how to add lessons on LGBT Americans
LOS ANGELES — Educators across the state of California are scrambling to incorporate into their curriculum materials that present the significant contributions of LGBT Americans as required by a new law.
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Opponents of California’s LGBT- inclusive education law concede defeat
The opponents of California’s Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act — also known as SB48 — on Wednesday conceded that they had failed to gather the signatures required to overturn the landmark bill that requires the historical contributions of gay, lesbian and transgender Americans be included in history lessons and classroom textbooks.
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California’s anti-gay ‘Stop SB 48’ group’s referendum effort fails
Equality California on Tuesday, announced that opponents of the Fair, Accurate, Inclusive, and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act — also known as SB48 — have failed to collect the required number of signatures to place a referendum on the November 2012 ballot to overturn the law.
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Press shows no interest in anti-gay organization’s press conference
Reverend Louis Sheldon, founder of the Traditional Values Coalition — one of three California “pro-family” organizations leading the effort to overturn California’s FAIR Education Act — invited the Southern Californian press corps to attend a news conference on TVC efforts seeking a ballot initiate to overturn the law.
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Equality California leads broad coalition of advocates to protect LGBT history law
A broad coalition of advocacy groups have launched a coordinated effort to protect and educate the public on California’s Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and Respectful (FAIR) Education Act, the landmark legislation that requires that the historical contributions of LGBT Americans to be included in history lessons and classroom textbooks.
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Silly phony ‘activist’ Michael Brown claims that gays are ‘sexualizing’ children
In a column in One News Now, an “activist” named Michael Brown reveals the ignorance of the religious right when it comes to the gay community.
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Liberty Counsel calls California gay history law ‘bullying of the worst kind’
Shawn Akers, the Public Policy Analyst for the anti-gay organization Liberty Counsel, on Friday said that California’s new LGBT-inclusive history law represents bullying of the worst kind.
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World Congress of Families: End California Governor Brown’s ‘Nazi State’
The head of the Rockford, Ill.-based Howard Center for Family, Religion, and Society’s “World Congress of Families,” told the American Family Association’s OneNewsNow website, that conservatives in California need to band together to repeal a “pro-homosexual law” recently signed by California’s Governor Jerry Brown. The law — known as the FAIR (Fair, Accurate, Inclusive and […]