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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAz. 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which she chairs, making it the first 2020 salvo in an conflict thats been brewing since last spring, when lawmakers repealed a decades-old law that forbade the promotion of a homosexual lifestyle.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/
dewsgirl
(14,961 posts)elleng
(131,129 posts)Guilded Lilly
(5,591 posts)number one agenda of Republicans.
Vote them all out. Every single one.
They are the most dangerous domestic terrorism cell in this country.
elleng
(131,129 posts)csziggy
(34,137 posts)But then, it's OK if the Republicans do it, I guess.
Ohiogal
(32,068 posts)Also I thought they want less government micro-managing in our lives.
Unless it pushes their backwards agenda, that is.