The news today announced that the Alameda County board of education has approved the teaching about homosexuality in grades K-5 as part of an attempt to curb bullying. Whether this is a good move or not is not the point of this quick blog. I'd rather focus on the irony of the situation.
During the heated campaign around Prop 8 in California, supporters of the proposition used several arguments that in a previous blog I highlighted as unfounded. The irony today is that one of those tactics was to denounce the fact that, should Prop 8 fail, our schools would be teaching young children about homosexual relationships. There was outcry from all sorts of groups. My friends and I engaged in heated debate around this. Yet I venture to say that not that many people actually tried to find out if such an accusation had any foundation in reality.
Well, my friends, it did not. And today, after Prop 8 not only has passed, but has been ratified by the California Supreme Court, a district in Northern California has approved one of the very things supporters of 8 so emphatically used as a reason to pass Prop 8.
What do they have to say now?
Remember: check the facts.
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