The Sacramento columnist Dan Walters reports that the uncool Ms. Kuehl’s bill would add “people who are lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender” to those cultural subgroupings about which schoolchildren must be instructed. I am waiting for the right edition to break the news that President John Quincy Adams was born a woman who badgered her father for so long about being President that he consented to authorizing the first transgender surgery. About the same time, pioneering families were watching television by candlelight because electricity had not yet been invented. Returning to the uncool Ms. Kuehl, her bill says that “sexual orientation” would be attached to that list of odious people about whom nothing that “reflects adversely” will be tolerated. When the state hospital in Camarillo was shut down a few years ago and shifted to the floor of the Legislature in Sacramento, the Yahoo Division of the “I Is a Victim Army” began camping out on the capital steps to get their skin-pinching propaganda passed. Their mission of manipulation has been wildly successful. But have you taken a close inspection lately of the quality of the marginally employable ladies and gentlemen who are making policy in Sacramento? You will see them Monday in the pro-illegal immigration rallies. I am sure I have seen several of them at the bottom of my favorite freeway off-ramp.
Just a Few Textbook Exceptions
Since last week, lefthanded, baldheaded, transgendered Hispanic lesbians, taller than six-foot-three, who grew up in a country with fewer than thirteen letters in its name, are not allowed to be criticized in California textbooks. The columnist Mr. Walters, reports that the Hindu American Foundation is suing the state to block a sixth-grade textbook that the group, if it is more than one person, claims is demeaning to Hindus. As Mr. Walters writes: “Implicitly, the suit is telling state officials that the textbooks must be altered to reflect the Hindu American Foundation’s version of the ethnic group’s history — regardless of what that history may be.” This is an example of immense and alarming consequence. Whether the claims are presented egregiously or with subtlety, this kind of information is bound to leak into the souls of vulnerable children. This should rattle the minds of serious parents involved in the education of their children.
Dr. Martin Luther King — now there was a man with a legitimate rights campaign to fight. Many good people still become wobbly kneed at the mention of “gay rights,” which is neither gay nor about rights in a traditional sense. We have talked before about my second youngest son who is gay. I have been estranged from him for several years. Last November, on his twenty-second birthday, he wouldn’t even take my telephone call, meaning it has been a year and a half since I last heard his voice and almost four years since I have seen him. Only death itself, to state the obvious, is more painful than estrangement. I have two photos of him on my desk, hardly compensation. Our relationship seldom strays far from my consciousness, remaining unrequited.