Don't say gay bill means excluding the Bible?

in florida •  2 years ago 

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https://www.npr.org/2022/04/26/1094740651/florida-man-asks-schools-to-ban-the-bible-following-the-states-efforts-to-remove

This is an obvious stunt. But under the vague terms of Florida’s “don’t say gay” law, the Bible might well have to be excluded from curricula.

The law bans all instruction on “sexual orientation” and “gender identity” through the third grade. In later grades, any such instruction must be “appropriate” to age. Hard to cover, say, the creation of Eve, the destruction of Sodom, or the stories of the patriarchs without referring to gender identity and sexual orientation. And who can say at what age it becomes “appropriate”? Your view might not be the same as the judge’s! Best not to take the risk.

Same goes for Classical Greek literature, like the Iliad. I don’t want to (further) shock the impressionable audience here. But much of the focus of the plot is on the conflict between Achilles and Agamemnon. Achilles is mad because Agamemnon took his captive female slave for himself. Hard to understand that without reference to “gender identity.”

Best not to even mention the relationship between Achilles and Patroclus. At least not in class.

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