As someone who aspires to teach History and Government to the secondary grade    
   students, I support California SB 48. The contributions of people who happen   
   to    
   be part of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered community should be    
   included in history. Because LGBT people are not mentioned in our textbooks    
   they are invisible to the eyes of many students even though LGBT youth are    
   opening themselves to the world at a younger age and straight students are    
   becoming aware of them in their schools.   
      
   The reason why there is opposition to SB 48 is that the traditional values    
   community wants to keep the LGBT community invisible. They want to do the   
   final    
   solution to the LGBT people like how American preachers such as Scott Lively   
   of    
   Temecula, California flies to Uganda to advocate for the extermination of LGBT    
   people.   
      
   However traditional values advocates want to keep the LGBT community invisible    
   and make sure their youth maintain their world view, even though they will be    
   dealing with LGBT people in their daily lives such as at work or as their    
   neighbors. I just find it sad that when anything deals with LGBT issues, they    
   always say its sexualizing education. When an office worker puts a picture of    
   their straight spouse and children isn't that an expression of your sexuality?   
      
   When we have a supportive school environment, school achievement improves. For    
   the conservatives who state that we should be focusing on improving our   
   state's    
   abysmally low test scores, reading, writing and arithmetic first. Bills such   
   as    
   AB 9 and SB 48 are key in helping to improve school achievement. There is an    
   actual study done in Oregon done by the Columbia University school of public    
   health that proves this fact. When people are less likely to want to kill you    
   or torment you where you are fearful that you will get beaten up before our    
   after school, you will want to be attending school and not want to surrender   
   to    
   the bullies.   
      
   Without LGBT people we would likely of had an injured or dead President Ford,    
   the civil rights movement by Dr.Martin Luther King would not of been as    
   effective, World War II would of lasted longer and we would not have powerful    
   computers as we have today.   
      
   I do hope Governor Brown signs this bill, but with our initiative process I am    
   fearful that Frank Schubert and friends will make another campaign to show   
   that    
   even in areas that elect left leaning Democrats they still can be just as    
   regressive as Alabama voters. This is why I advocate for California to use the    
   Initiative and Referendum process of Nevada where constitutional amendments    
   must be passed in two consecutive elections with the same language.   
        
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