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| Subject: Texas, Alabama, and Mississippi require sex ed teachers to frame homosexuality as a crime Sat Jan 24, 2015 10:17 pm | |
| Despite Legalizing Gay Marriage These States Forbid Teaching About Gay Sex Meanwhile, some states still require sex ed teachers to treat homosexuality as a crime.
This month the Supreme Court announced it would decide in the current term whether all 50 states must allow same-sex couples to marry. No doubt the justices are aware of how public opinion on the issue has evolved. But while legal gay marriage has spread rapidly over the last several years (see this map), sex education laws in many states remain in the Dark Ages—even in states where gay marriage is allowed.
In Arizona, for example, two men or two women can tie the knot, but no student can be exposed to curriculum that "promotes a homosexual lifestyle" or "suggests that some methods of sex are safe methods of homosexual sex." In South Carolina, where same-sex couples have been able to marry since last year, students are forbidden from learning about homosexuality "except in the context of instruction concerning sexually transmitted diseases." (Story continues below.)
http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2015/01/states-sex-education-gay-marriage |
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