Arkansas Anti-Gay Book Ban Bill Dies

(Little Rock, Arkansas) A bill that would have forced schools to use only books that omitted any reference to gay families has failed to win the endorsement of the Arkansas’ Senate Education Committee.

The committee cast a 3 - 3 tie vote. The bill needed at least four votes to move to the Senate floor. It had already passed the House.

The legislation would have applied only to new textbooks purchased by school districts.

The sponsor of the measure, Rep. Roy Ragland (R-Marshall) said the bill was designed to block efforts to promote a gay agenda in schools.

“From my perspective, the agenda is coming from the other end of the spectrum,” Sen. Jim Argue, D-Little Rock, chairman of the committee, said before the vote.

Last November Arkansas voters overwhelmingly endorsed a constitutional amendment to ban gay marriage in the state. As well, the state is appealing a ruling that struck down a law barring gays from becoming foster parents. (story)

The Texas Board of Education in November approved new health textbooks for the state’s high school and middle school students only after the publishers agreed to change the wording to depict marriage as the union of a man and a woman. (story)

Legislation pending in Alabama would go even further. The bill, if enacted, would bar any representation of homosexuality in schools, libraries, and state funded universities. (source)

And they say we have an agenda. Their agenda all along has been to rid us from existence, viewing us as a scourge upon mankind. That haven’t been able to do that. So, they use everything in their arsenal to make our lives miserable (pass legislation that has it’s basis in religious doctrine, such as the Bible that brands us as an abomination) and, when that fails, try to make it look like we don’t even exist (bar any literature in the libraries that make even the slightest mention of gay people in society).

If there is anything close to evil in this world, it is the complete and utter stripping of someone publicly of the gifts that he or she can bring to enrich the lives of others in society. All of this to profit not God, but the narrow minded view of those who hate us.