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RandySF

(59,238 posts)
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 08:41 PM Jan 2020

Az. Bill bans sex ed in elementary, middle schools

A Republican senator wants to bar schools from teaching sex education before seventh grade.
The bill from Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, also deletes “homosexuality” from acts constituting “sexual conduct” in a section of the statutes, a move that appears to ban any discussion of homosexuality during sex ed courses.

Allen has already scheduled the measure for a Jan. 14 hearing in the Senate Education Committee, which she chairs, making it the first 2020 salvo in an conflict that’s been brewing since last spring, when lawmakers repealed a decades-old law that forbade the promotion of a “homosexual lifestyle.”

On the other side, Democratic Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley wants to require schools to teach comprehensive and “medically accurate” sex education on an opt-out basis. Senate Democrats plan to introduce similar legislation in their chamber.




https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2020/01/08/bill-bans-sex-ed-in-elementary-middle-schools/

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Guilded Lilly

(5,591 posts)
2. The complete, dumbing down and puritanical destruction of intelligence continues to be the...
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 08:58 PM
Jan 2020

number one agenda of Republicans.
Vote them all out. Every single one.
They are the most dangerous domestic terrorism cell in this country.

csziggy

(34,137 posts)
3. I thought Republicans were against the federal government dictating local education
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 09:00 PM
Jan 2020

But then, it's OK if the Republicans do it, I guess.

Ohiogal

(32,068 posts)
4. My first thought, as well.
Sat Jan 11, 2020, 09:03 PM
Jan 2020

Also I thought they want less government micro-managing in our lives.

Unless it pushes their backwards agenda, that is.

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