New Jersey
Related: About this forum'We're Not Teaching Sodomy In 6th Grade': GOP Nominee For NJ Governor Wants To End LGBTQ Curriculum
The Republican nominee for governor in New Jersey, Jack Ciattarelli, is vowing to roll back school curricula that centers LGTBQ inclusivity, falsely claiming that sexual orientation is being taught to kindergarteners and sixth graders are learning sodomy.
The comments, made during a campaign stop at a gun range last month according to a video obtained by Gothamist/WNYC, were criticized by the states gay-rights group, Garden State Equality. Sodomy is a term referring to sexual acts that people of all sexual orientations engage in, but it has historically been used to equate homosexuality with deviancy, and anti-sodomy laws were long used to prosecute people for their sexual orientation.
Ciattarelli is a former Republican assemblyman who last month defeated two more conservative candidates in a GOP primary. He will face Democratic Governor Phil Murphy in November. At the June 26th event, Ciattarelli said:
I feel lucky [our kids] are in their 20s and I don't have to be dealing with what you're dealing with right now. You won't have to deal with it when I'm governor, but we're not teaching gender ID and sexual orientation to kindergarteners. We're not teaching sodomy in sixth grade. And we're going to roll back the LGBTQ curriculum. It goes too far.
Read more: https://gothamist.com/news/gop-nominee-nj-governor-wants-end-lgbtq-curriculum
Hugh_Lebowski
(33,643 posts)Going all in-depth about it, etc ...
These people, I swear
Grins
(7,920 posts)Friend of mines son and daughter took sex-ed at expen$ive private school. Mom was shocked by what they were bing taught.
Her kids
? Meh. No big deal.
And now in their mid-20s - they turned out great. Even their mom. Who now thinks that was a good classy.
NoMoreRepugs
(10,609 posts)WaterSong1951
(74 posts)As a person living in New Jersey he is digging down to a Former Guy base with his words - Governor Murphy has lead us brilliantly through the pandemic and Jack has an uphill battle - lots of people in NJ promote equality for all- NJ is not influenced by this rhetoric- as a whole
Grins
(7,920 posts)A campaign stop at a gun range?
Next
a car wash?