Seems like every couple years there is an attack on LGBT!

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So in California State Bill 48 (SB 48) passed, it's called the FAIR education act. What it does is require California schools from grades K-12 to teach about the benefits of minority groups to the State of California and the United States in classes such as history and social sciences. So the schools would be required to teach about things such as the women’s rights movement, African American rights, people with disabilities rights, etc. including the LGBT community.

The bill does not state any words the teachers have to use or even how to teach it. That is left up to the local schools, teachers, and parents to decide.

Well mainly led by Christian coalition, among a few other groups, they are seeking the needed number of signatures to put a repeal on the ballot for Nov. 2012 to repeal the part of the bill about the schools teaching about contributions from the LGBT community to the state of California and the United States.

I saw a video posted on facebook of a women collecting signatures in Oceanside, CA (near San Diego) where she had a repeal SB 48 petition to be signed and on the sign next to it had pictures of Elizabeth Smart and misleading people into thinking that the petition is against child molesters, rapist, and murderers in order to get signatures.

Naturally I think this is ridiculous and teaching children about the LGBT community, what it is, how they've benefited the state and the nation in the civil rights arena can only benefit. I know this for a fact! It might help to reduce bullying in schools but also let children who feel they might be gay have a solid base of information about what it means to be homosexual and the positive benefits of the LGBT community.

Now if I had this type of information in elementary school I likely wouldn't of been so petrified to mention anything about the thoughts I had of me being gay when I realized it in 7th grade, thus leading to a much easier, happier life where I came out and dealt with this in Junior High or High School instead of waiting until telling my family and friends by my mid-20's!

It's just super frustrating to see this type of stuff going on every election period. I'm getting tired of having to always have these arguments with others regarding LGBT rights but I guess it has to be done...