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Equality MattersOnce again, it appears that anti-gay conservatives are working to portray
http://equalitymatters.org/blog/201104080006">any
http://equalitymatters.org/blog/201104110008">attempt to combat anti-LGBT bullying as an insidious new effort to indoctrinate America’s school children.
WorldNetDaily recently sent its subscribers an
http://alerts.worldnetdaily.com/HM?a=ENX7CqlQrouN8SA9MKJFkHnnGHxKLDP7fvcStGb5lw8W0bBhOG5mpqVsje_Hhe-ud1Ki">email containing a message from the anti-gay
http://www.publicadvocateusa.org/">group “Public Advocate of the United States,” warning them of an emerging threat in Congress:
The Radical Homosexuals infiltrating the United States Congress have a plan:
Indoctrinate an entire generation of American children with pro-homosexual propaganda and eliminate traditional values from American society.
Their ultimate dream is to create a new America based on sexual promiscuity in which the values you and I cherish are long forgotten.
In case it isn’t clear, the group is referring to H.R. 998, the “Student Non-Discrimination Act of 2011,” a bill which was introduced into the House in March and already has 126 co-sponsors. According to Public Advocate, the bill “will turn America’s schools into indoctrination centers and its classrooms into social laboratories.”
The bill itself is relatively straight forward; It would allow the federal government to withhold funds from public schools that exclude or discriminate against LGBT students. According to the non-partisan Congressional Research Service’s (CRS)
http://www.govtrack.us/congress/bill.xpd?bill=h112-998&tab=summary">analysis, the bill:
* Prohibits public school students from being excluded from participating in, or subject to discrimination under, any federally-assisted educational program on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation or gender identity or that of their associates.
* Considers harassment to be a form of discrimination.
* Prohibits retaliation against anyone for opposing conduct they reasonably believe to be unlawful under this Act.
* Authorizes federal departments and agencies to enforce these prohibitions by cutting off the educational assistance of recipients found to be violating them.
* Allows an aggrieved individual to assert a violation of this Act in a judicial proceeding and recover reasonable attorney’s fees should they prevail.
* Deems a state’s receipt of federal educational assistance for a program to constitute a waiver of sovereign immunity for conduct prohibited under this Act regarding such program.
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