Currently, the Title 16, Chapter 40A, Code of Alabama 1975, (1) provides minimum content standards to be included in any sex education program or curriculum taught in Alabama public schools including an emphasis, in a factual manner and from a public health perspective, that homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the general public and that homosexual conduct is a criminal offense under the laws of the state and (2) provides that conduct that is illegal under state law shall not be encouraged or proposed to public school children in such a manner as to indicate that they have a legitimate right to decide or choose illegal conduct. However, the state has no established policy restricting or prohibiting the use of state funds for the purchase of textbooks, library books, or other materials that sanction, recognize, foster, or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of the state.
This bill would prohibit the expenditure or use of public funds or public facilities by any state agency or public entity for the purchase, production, or promotion of printed or electronic materials or activities that sanction, recognize, foster, or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of the state.
Full text (pdf): HB30
Sponsor: Rep Gerald Allen (R-Cottondale)
1 comment:
I'm a resident of Alabama and this bill disturbs me to the core. Please, please, please for the love of Alabama's children we have to stop Representative Allen's bill banning books by gay or lesbian authors. A person's sexuality does not detract from thier apptitude as a writer. Alabama's school systems are already lagging behind much of the rest of the nation and this bill will only serve to set the state as a whole back many years. This is censorship in it's most perverse form. Rep. Allen claims to be protecting the hearts and minds of our children, however how can we be protecting our childrens' minds when we are keeping them ignorant of the great works of art that are out there?
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