The law passed by California, SB 48, which includes teaching about the contributions of homosexual people in history, is being challenged in court. Conservatives, who already hold strange political opinions to begin with, are challenging the law because they believe it will lead people to see homosexuality as normal and thus result in same-sex marriage. And same-sex marriage is a very evil thing indeed under this view.
I find it strange that conservatives would oppose a law that was actually teaching history. History happened, and if homosexuals made contributions to society as a whole there is nothing people who are against homosexuals in their quest for equal rights can do to change that. There is no "revisionist history" going on here, but simply an accurate portrayal of events. With the number of being people bullied for being gay lately, one would think that conservatives would soften their stance on homosexuality. However, blind bigotry seems to rule the day for them, as they oppose any efforts to show the general populace homosexuals are not as scary and perverse as the conservatives want us to believe.
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