GAY TRUTH

A campaign spearheaded by LGBT rights and women’s rights groups Change.org and AllOut.org, encouraging companies to drop their ties to the  Charity Give Back Group  (formerly the Christian Values Network), unsurprisingly has the Religious Right up in arms. The CGBG “operates a sort of online mall, donating a portion of each purchase to religious nonprofits,” Michelle Goldberg   explains . “Among them are conservative organizations like Focus on the Family , The Family Research Council , Promise Keepers , and a number of anti-ab Image via Wikipedia ortion crisis pregnancy centers .” The  campaign  to get businesses to opt out of CGBG’s program has been very successful, with over 200 companies such as Delta, Apple and Macy’s dropping out of the program so far. Focus on the Family is now  encouraging its members  to write to the companies that have ended their ties with CGBG. And today, the Family Research Council launched the “ Resist Discrimination ” campaign, demanding compani e

Image via Wikipedia A bill that would require California public schools to revise their social science curricula to incorporate study of the contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans was passed by the California Senate Education Committee last Wednesday. The bill, SB 48, was introduced by openly homosexual state Senator Mark Leno . It passed the ten member Education Committee by a vote of 6 to 3 with one abstaining, and has been referred to the Senate Judiciary Committee , where it will be considered in early April. If passed, the law would affect the curriculum for students as early as kindergarten. It contains no provision allowing parents to exclude their children or for teachers to opt out of teaching the new material. Former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger vetoed a similar bill in 2006. If SB 48 is passed by the Legislature, however, it is expected that current Democratic Governor Jerry Brown will sign it into law.Supporters of the bill argu