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trotsky

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Fri Feb 15, 2019, 11:05 AM Feb 2019

Kansas bill calls LGBTQ a religion, same-sex unions 'parody marriages' [View all]

https://www.kwch.com/content/news/Wichita-educator-co-sponsors-bill-that-call-same-sex-unions-parody-marriages-505877561.html

Local LGBTQ rights groups are worried about the safety of Wichita students after a bill presented in the Kansas House called same-sex unions "parody marriages." The bill also goes on to call the LGBTQ community a "religion of secular humanism."

...The bill states "...there has been a land rush by many secular humanists to infiltrate public schools and public libraries with the intent to indoctrinate and proselytize minors to their religious worldview..."

(Liz) Hamor (founder of the Wichita Chapter of GLSEN, an education organization that works to create safe and inclusive K-12 schools) says those words are concerning.

"The bills that came out yesterday had language in there that was very harmful for LGBTQ Kansans, and then we find out that one of them was co-sponsored by an educator, a USD 259 educator, and I just had concerns that those are the kinds of things some of our students are hearing from educators."
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