Effort to undo California gay history law fails

[Newsjock]

Source: Associated Press

Opponents of a law that requires California public schools to cover the contributions of gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender people have again failed to qualify a ballot measure that would have overturned the requirement.

Pacific Justice Institute lawyer Kevin Snider said the Stop SB48 campaign did not gather enough signatures by Monday's deadline to put an initiative on the 2014 ballot that would exclude sexual minorities from the list of groups whose roles in history and social science schools must teach.

Read more: http://www.insidebayarea.com/oaklandtribune/localnews/ci_21093061/effort-undo-california-gay-history-law-fails

[KamaAina]

1. The FAIR Education Act also includes people with disabilities

The disability community resents the rear-guard effort to exclude our LGBT allies and is thrilled at its EPIC FAIL.

[xxqqqzme]

2. These unending attempts to

legislate the hate are getting very tiresome.

[SoapBox]

4. Ditto!

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[eggplant]

3. Because "if we don't talk about it it didn't happen" worked so well at Penn State. n/t

[SoapBox]

5. and...Ditto again!

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[azurnoir]

6. Good that's as it should be no minority should be excluded from history n/t