Breitbart News reports that California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) is targeting state school districts by backing a draconian bill to force compliance with the inclusion of LGBTQ curricula.
The bill, AB 1078, introduced by Assemblymember Corey Jackson (D-Perris), would allow the state to intervene in local districts and fine them if their curricula lacked materials on ethnic groups and “LGBTQ+ Americans.”
The bill was considered too extreme even for the state’s left-wing legislature, in which both houses are ruled by Democrat Party supermajorities. But the Los Angeles Times notes that Newsom is targeting the public school district in Temecula, in Southern California, where conservatives won seats on the school board and are opposing the use of LGBTQ+ materials:
The debate arose after the board rejected proposed instructional material that mentioned Harvey Milk, a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors and the first out gay man elected to public office in California, who was assassinated in 1978. Earlier this year, Newsom proclaimed May 22 to be Harvey Milk Day, to honor his activism done “at great personal risk.”
Conservative school board President Joseph Komrosky, who called Milk a “pedophile” and has been publicly feuding with Newsom over the issue, asked sheriff deputies on Tuesday to remove a teacher from the meeting after she called conservative board member Danny Gonzalez a “homophobe.”
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On Wednesday, Newsom announced that the state is entering into a contract to secure textbooks for the district in time for the first day of school next month.
Newsom also said that he is committed to fining the Temecula district for non-compliance, despite the fact that he does not yet have the power to do so, and that doing so would hurt the students of the district directly.
Last month, Newsom attacked Komrosky for calling Milk a “pedophile,” slamming “an offensive statement from an ignorant person.” The Freedom Center’s own Daniel Greenfield at Frontpage Mag addressed the claims of Harvey Milk being a pedophile, citing a book claiming the icon had relationships with two teenagers, who were allegedly 16 and 17 years old, respectively, at the time. The legal age of consent in California is 18 years old.