Like most things that appear in World Net Daily, the article is patently inaccurate. I read the text of the law, and no where does it "require that school children be taught to admire "lesbian, gay, bisexual and transsexual" role models."
It does require that public schools "accurately portray the . . . role and contributions of Native Americans, African Americans, Mexican Americans, Asian Americans, Pacific
Islanders, European Americans, lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender Americans, and members of other ethnic and cultural groups to the total development of California and the United States."
It also states that public school teachers "shall not sponsor any activity that
reflects adversely upon persons on the basis of race or ethnicity, gender, religion, disability, nationality, sexual orientation, or
because of a characteristic listed in Section 220."
So, basically it requires that public school social science curriculum not exclude the contributions of GBLT Americans, simply because of their sexual orientation and that public school teachers abstain from teaching that certain people are bad based solely on race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.
I would hope that public schools are abiding by these principles anyway. It is not the job of public schools to teach kids one way or the other about the morality of homosexuality. That is the role of the family and the church. I see nothing in this law that interferes with that.
