Sacramento, Calif., Oct 16, 2007 / 08:09 am
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has signed into law a bill requiring all California public schools to positively portray homosexuality to children as young as kindergarten.
The bill from the California Legislature, Senate Bill 777, forbids any instruction or school-sponsored activity that "promotes a discriminatory bias" against gender and sexual orientation.
The bill's critics believe that since no current instruction disparages sexual orientation, the absence of such topics from school textbooks and instruction will be considered to be biased. Positive portrayals of homosexuality, bisexuality, and transsexualism, they believe, will therefore be required.
Any schools violating the law will be subject to lawsuits from the State Department of Education.