California textbooks to honor gays, bill would ban negative portrayals of gays
What exactly do they mean by banning negative portrayals? Does not the California School system have more important things to worry about, such as teaching our kids to read in the first place. Sexual orientation has no place in the school curriculum. What you do in bed with another person is your business and really should have no bearing upon your contributions to the greater society. Gays are in no way special because they prefer to have sex with each other. It does not give them magical powers.
Mentioning that a contributor to American culture is gay should be countered by mentioning when a contributor is, or was, straight. Since there are many more straights than gays, the contributions made by straights will far outweigh the ones made by gays. How about we say, Heterosexual scientist and inventor, Ben Franklin. Heterosexual author, Issac Asimov. Heterosexual painter, Andrew Wyeth. Etc, etc. That'll really piss off the gays.
posted by Miss Carnivorous @ 1:50 PM
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I don't remember any negative portrayal of gays in text books when I was growing up. No mention at all actually. I really have some problems with this bill. I say leave it up to the teachers. If a high school art teacher mentions that Leonardo da Vinci was gay, OK. This seems like a stupid liberal idea to me.
Neither can any of my co-workers! In Leonardo's case, to say he was gay would help illustrate why his portrayals of women looked like men with strange little, muscular boobs. It was wishful thinking on his part! So in art class his being gay would definitely warrant a passing mention. In history class, more so, of course. It's all about whether it has anything to do with anything! I think its because some gays feel bad about themselves and need to stroke their own egos. They need to look at their own negative feelings about themselves and stop worrying about what other people think.
Of course when we get to Leonardo's science, then his gayness matters not one bit.
California. Gay. Those words don't work together...
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