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Title: Calif. anti-bias bill causes stir over 'gender'
Post by: Hazumu on December 24, 2007, 04:38:45 AM
Post by: Hazumu on December 24, 2007, 04:38:45 AM
By William M. Welch
USA TODAY (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-23-Genderschools_N.htm)
"LOS ANGELES — Warning that boys soon will be able to use girls' bathrooms and locker rooms, social conservatives and religious groups are trying to block a California law from taking effect in January that is designed to prohibit discrimination against gay and transgender people in schools.
Opponents are circulating petitions and fliers in churches and elsewhere warning that the law will permit "homosexual indoctrination" of schoolchildren as young as 5 and that "gender-specific bathrooms would also be discriminatory.""
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The religious-righties have been drawn to the comments like moths on a warm summer evening to a searchlight...
Karen
USA TODAY (http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-12-23-Genderschools_N.htm)
"LOS ANGELES — Warning that boys soon will be able to use girls' bathrooms and locker rooms, social conservatives and religious groups are trying to block a California law from taking effect in January that is designed to prohibit discrimination against gay and transgender people in schools.
Opponents are circulating petitions and fliers in churches and elsewhere warning that the law will permit "homosexual indoctrination" of schoolchildren as young as 5 and that "gender-specific bathrooms would also be discriminatory.""
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The religious-righties have been drawn to the comments like moths on a warm summer evening to a searchlight...
Karen
Title: Re: Calif. anti-bias bill causes stir over 'gender'
Post by: Renate on December 24, 2007, 05:35:52 AM
Post by: Renate on December 24, 2007, 05:35:52 AM
Well we are talking about a country which couldn't pass the Equal Rights Amendment.
I think at the time one of the wacko complaints was that it would mandate unisex restrooms.
Renate
I think at the time one of the wacko complaints was that it would mandate unisex restrooms.
Renate
Title: Re: Calif. anti-bias bill causes stir over 'gender'
Post by: Maebh on December 24, 2007, 06:13:09 AM
Post by: Maebh on December 24, 2007, 06:13:09 AM
Quote from: Karen on December 24, 2007, 04:38:45 AM
The religious-righties have been drawn to the comments like moths on a warm summer evening to a searchlight...
Karen
If only they could burn their wings on it! >:D
LLL&R
Maebh