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MN’s largest daily newspaper calls Anoka-Hennepin policy on LGBT issues ‘gutless’
In a sharply worded editorial, the Minneapolis Star-Tribune this week criticized the Anoka-Hennepin School District, calling the state’s largest schools district “gutless” for it’s neutrality policy on LGBT issues.
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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 […]
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MN school district — subject of lawsuit, federal probe — launches GLBT web page
Minnesota’s Anoka-Hennepin school district — which is the subject of a lawsuit and a federal investigation stemming from a spate of suicides by gay, or perceived gay teens — has launched a page on it website to address GLBT issues including bullying and harassment.
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Miami-Dade, nation’s 4th largest school district, adds gender identity protections
The Miami-Dade school district — the fourth largest in the nation — on Thursday joined other districts across the state of Florida in protecting students from bullying based upon gender identity or sexual orientation.
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Minnesota students sue school district over neutrality policy on sexual orientation
The Anoka-Hennepin school district in Minneapolis — Minnesota’s largest school district — is being sued in federal court by five gay and lesbian students over its policy regarding the teaching and discussion of sexual orientation in the classroom.
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Conservative group seeks voter referendum to overturn California’s LGBT history law
A California-based conservative group on Friday filed documents seeking to place a voter referendum on the 2012 ballot to overturn a new state law that would require public schools to include the historical contributions of LGBT Americans in history lessons and classroom materials.
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California governor signs landmark bill that would require teaching of LGBT history
California’s Gov. Jerry Brown on Thursday signed into law landmark legislation that would require the historical contributions of gay, lesbian and transgender Americans to be included in history lessons and classroom textbooks.
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Linda Harvey: Teacher’s union gives ‘financial incentives’ for students to be gay
Linda Harvey, founder of Columbus, Ohio-based anti-gay Mission America, has now targeted a National Education Association affiliate for providing college scholarships for LGBT high school students.
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Fox News: CA bill that would require teaching of LGBT history is ‘propaganda’
LGBT watchdog group “Equality Matters” is taking Fox News to task for maligning the facts relating to California’s Fair Education Act, a landmark bill that would require the teaching of LGBT history in public schools.