In a previous post I discussed the ramifications of a bill before California governor Jerry Brown that would add the history of gay people to the textbooks and lessons of California schools. He signed it.
Gov. Brown signs bill requiring teaching of gay accomplishments
Brown issued a statement in which he called the legislation an “important step forward for our state.’’
“History should be honest,’’ Brown said. “This bill revises existing laws that prohibit discrimination in education and ensures that the important contributions of Americans from all backgrounds and walks of life are included in our history books.’’
As I mentioned before, that honestly, not so much about the accomplishments of gay people but more, a factual account of the witch hunts violence and political and social persecution we have endured as a people, is greatly feared by the anti-gay industrial complex. And as expected, they are already moving to do a Proposition 8 on it…
Conservative group to fight gay textbook law
The proponent of the proposed referendum, Paulo Sibaja, filed a request for a title and summary with the attorney general’s office. Sibaja said he acted on behalf of the Capitol Resource Institute, which had officially opposed the bill throughout the legislative process before Gov. Jerry Brown signed it Thursday. Sibaja is the legislative director of that organization.
The Capitol Resource Institute is a hard-line, socially conservative organization that has long opposed efforts in California to expand rights for the LGBT population…
They’ll probably get their signatures too. Whether or not they can wage a successful campaign to erase a minority group from the pages of history in California remains to be seen, but expect more of The Homosexuals Are Coming For Your Children rhetoric in the coming months. And…more anti-gay violence for them to wash, wash their hands of before the multitudes.
One part of that history they never want told is coming to the screen. A documentary based on David K. Johnson’s The Lavender Scare is now in production…
The Lavender Scare is the first feature-length documentary film to tell the story of the U.S. government’s ruthless campaign in the 1950s and ’60s to hunt down and fire every Federal employee it suspected was gay.
While the McCarthy Era is remembered as the time of the Red Scare, the headline-grabbing hunt for Communists in the United States, it was the Lavender Scare, a vicious and vehement purge of homosexuals, which lasted longer and ruined many more lives.
There’s more at the documentary website, including a trailer. The book it is based on is available in cloth, paperback and ebook form from the University of Chicago Press. I also highly recommend Neil Miller’s Sex Crime Panic (Alyson Books) and David Carter’s Stonewall (St. Martin’s Press). I would also love to hear gay history book recommendations from the readers here.
They’s rather keep their kids ignorant of history; plus the fact that they know that this type of knowledge will engender acceptance (I hope). When civil rights and African-American history were first being introduced in public schools in the late 60s and 70s, lots of white people got their panties in a wad over it. Hopefully lgbt history will eventually become ‘no big deal’ in history classes.
They’d….
If this gets on the ballot, maybe our side can use clips of this film in ads. We need to be hard hitting and unveil the bigotry of those who lie about us.
So if this gets on the ballot and the bill is repealed, can’t the legislature just enact it again?
We need the courts to undo and prevent the damage from anti-gay forces.
How are we pushing anything on you CC? While you’re at it, why should we care whether you like or respect us?
I don’t recall where the equal protection clause says a group has to be above a specific percentage of the population to benefit. Could you show us that clause? And how is it “in your face” to demand the equal protection of the law that we are already promised? And how are we doing anything at others’ expense? You realize that far more straight people are HIV-positive than gay right? And what’s wrong with people being taught history? Why would you want America’s youth kept ignorant? And what backlash could there possibly be? States aren’t allowed to criminalize our existance anymore.
Yes Chief. I will Best pary I’m right. I will pary my very Best. My very Best parying in fact, occurs when I am right. However I am probably not the only one here who had Best pary that he’s right.
Pick up any of the books I mentioned there, or Wayne’s Anything But Straight sometime. Give them a read. So many lives ruined, so many hearts devastated, so many innocent lives lost…and not by homosexuality but by prejudice, by arrogance, by that blind stubborn refusal to see beyond our differences to the human heart within that we call bigotry. What would Jesus think? On the whole, and parying my very Best, I think if I am wrong then all the same I’d rather have to account for my life then yours.
Chief, judging by your posts here I don’t think you should be saying others have their heads up their asses. It’s hypocritical.
wow, what a nutjob. and a troll.
Let’s take the Big Book of Fairy Tales out of it, hmm, Chiefie? I don’t WANT some fake deity ruling over my life! I RULE MYSELF!
But it’s funny that you can blame the black guy more than you’d blame anyone else…
I hate using the word “racist,” because it’s usually a worthless, sterile term, but you, sir, are racist, homophobic SCUM, and people like you are the ones that give ALL religions the taint of haughtiness that have followed them since the 1970s!
@Chief
Sir, you seem to have head so far up your own arse that you don’t know whether to speak or fart. Judging from your posts, you seem to have chosen the latter.
I clicked on your link and had the misfortune of reading your site, and I am sad but unsurprised to report that my initial suspicions were confirmed – you are indeed a laughable little man.
Kisses! xxx.
“…..and a Backlash is coming soon that will set you folks back a few hundred years.”
YAWN how typical of self-righteous christian bullies…they are nothing without their threats.
Jeremiah said “Brown wants to use the limited resources of our state to use for class time on teaching that one’s contribution to society was based on whether they were heterosexual or homosexual?”.
No, he doesn’t. What he wants to do is teach the contributions of all people, including gays, a minority whose contributions have been excluded based on their not being heterosexual.
Chief said “I dont recall the “Equal protection clause” discriminating against you, you have no rights to “Special privledges”…you are protected by as many laws and rules as any of us, yet for some strange reason you feel you should get speacial treatment, even when you arent entitled.”.
You don’t recall because you don’t want to know the truth. Gays have been denied equal protection through denying them the right to marry the person of their choice, gays have been denied equal protection that gives anti-discrimination protection to white christians but not gays, gays have been denied equal protection by being denied the same right heterosexuals have to adopt, gays have been denied equal protection by having their sex lives criminalized. But of course in your delusion world gays aren’t entitled to the same rights you have and if anyone prevents you from oppressing, assaulting, and murdering gays that’s an infringement on your religious freedom.”
Ooooh Chief, all this wit you’re showing us here. You should take to the comedy circuit. BTW–the very title of “The Missing 52 Years of Democrats History” gives a signal that it’s right wing propaganda.
Also, funny how you showed up when all those lying one-names (Becky, Kay, Omar) were exposed.
Also, Chief–3 members on your blog. Wow!
What “special privileges” are we asking for CC? Be specific.
And while you’re at it, could you show us where the equal protection clause says that it doesn’t apply to the federal government?
And your lack of coherency is hilarious. No one ever said we were being discriminated against by the fourteenth amendment, we are being discriminated against in violation of it. Imbecilic cretins like you are why our rights are progressing so fast.
People are also sick and tired of hearing Christianists throw a whiny-baby hissy-fit whenever they can’t impose their morality system on 100% of the nation and then wonder why there’s a pushback against ‘em…let’s see, maybe because you act like a petulant, spoiled brat!
Okay, Chief, you win. I hang out at preschool yards drooling when the little boys come out. Oh it makes me so hard! I’m sorry my friends here on TWO, but I just can’t hold back any more!
And, then, would you be willing, in an area where you were in the minority, to say that “majority rules” and take whatever punishments or lack of recognition that would be due your way? I’m thinking that you wouldn’t, mainly because of the fact that you’re an officious prick that doesn’t get that, just because there are people that might not follow the will of the majority, it DOESN’T GIVE YOU CARTE BLANCHE TO RUN OVER THEM, and if you think so, YOU ARE WRONG, SIMPLE AS!
Cheif, That wasn’t me writing the above. Apparently there’s more than one Daniel. I’m the real one. My real question is–what do you think you’re achieving here? You haven’t changed anyone’s mind. You haven’t enlightened us with any original thoughts. You’ve maybe annoyed some people–but we GLBT people get far more annoyance from everyday life. You haven’t proven any of your statements. You haven’t gotten any new members for your blog. You’ve insulted people who have spent a lot of their lives being insulted–and by far better minds than you. What are you trying to accomplish here? Do you think you’ve accomplished anything other than being an annoyance?
Chief, one more thing–did you post under my name? That’s sad. You’re a liar, just like becky/elsa/omar an traveler. You’re a bigoted liar.
I thought it was you, anyway, Dan…I just read it as dripping with sarcasm =)
You do realize that you’re protected by hate crime laws too right? If someone commits a violent crime against your person or property because you are straight, male, white, or abled, your attacker(s) would face additional punishment under current hate crimes laws. And what “special protections” have we asked for? I can’t recall asking for anything that you don’t already have.
It’s called equal protection CC. The majority is explicitely forbidden from doing things that deny minorities anything that is given to the majority. Move to a direct democracy if you don’t like it.
And when has anyone asked a twelve year old if he’s had oral sex?
Chief, you are absolutely sickening. I am a Cherokee-Celtic 2-spirit and I pray every day to my God and Goddess that the plans of you and your ilk will be thwarted.
I hear threats like yours, and calls for the execution of GLBT people simply for the reason that we are a hated minority. I am married to a lovely man, we are both faithful to one another, having been legally married in Canada and then handfasted in God and Goddess. We seek only to be allowed to live in peace without haters like you threatening that “..a Backlash is coming soon that will set you folks back a few hundred years.” How have I or my husband ever harmed you? How does our right to marry affect your life? Why this insane hatred?
I’m with Cody. Here’s a snippet from your “holy” Bible: you wish to lay burdens on others you would not willingly bear. You are nothing more than an bigoted, hateful officious prick. You have nothing to back the vitriol you have spewed here and on your blog. I took some time to review it and you are just a run of the mill right-wing hater. You can’t deal with the fact that you white Christianists’ power is fading with each passing year.
And I am with Cody yet again: “People are also sick and tired of hearing Christianists throw a whiny-baby hissy-fit whenever they can’t impose their morality system on 100% of the nation and then wonder why there’s a pushback against ‘em…let’s see, maybe because you act like a petulant, spoiled brat!
And people are getting more and more sick and tired of it as time goes by.
Take the log out your own eye before you seek to remove the speck from your brother’s eye! Who the hell do you think you are to go around threatening people just because you don’t approve of them. Buster, there is a hell of a lot I don’t approve of but I let people live their own lives…if they are doing wrong, karma sooner or later will deal with them. As She with you. Don’t think that you will keep spreading this hatred and division without some kind of a retribution. You will not.