California Schoolbooks Are Safe From Gay Politics...For Now

I've reported previously on the attempts by former Dobie Gillis actress and now California Senator Sheila Kuehl to modify California history textbooks to include the sexual orientation of famous persons (as though that really matters). Gov. Arnold let it be known that he was going to veto the bill as written, and now changes have been made to take out the gay agenda nonsense:

A proposal to require California textbooks to reflect the historical contributions of gay people was scaled back Monday to prohibit schools from negatively portraying homosexuals.

The Assembly amended the bill, SB 1437, because Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger indicated he would veto it, said the author, Sen. Sheila Kuehl, D-Santa Monica.

"I have always worked to try to produce compromise," Kuehl said, noting she learned from staff that the governor opposed the required inclusion of positive contributions by gays because of pressure from some religious organizations.

Geoff Kors, executive director of the gay rights group Equality California, a bill supporter, said he was disappointed, but said the bill still furthers the push for equal rights.

"Civil rights always moves in an incremental fashion," he said, "and it's important to get the negative portrayals out of schools."

Kors couldn't name any specific textbooks that included negative portrayals of gay people, but said there have been complaints from students about teachers' stereotypical comments.

So let's see, we're passing a law because there's some anecdotal stories that some teacher somewhere might have said something that could have been offensive to someone. A fine way to spend our taxdollars.

I went to high school back in the dark ages, and frankly I can't remember anything in any textbook that referred to homosexuality at all, nor can I remember any teacher saying anything in any classroom about homosexuality. Queerly enough (to coin a phrase), the gay activists think it's a problem that sexual orientation and the politics thereof are not taught to our young students - so much so that people like Keuhl can't leave it alone.

She apparently spends more time thinking about sex than the teenage boys and girls she's trying to indoctinate. And with looks like this, can you blame her...

The good news is, I believe Keuhl is term-limited out this year.