Kerby Anderson

An education bill in Florida has created lots of controversy, partially because the critics have never read the bill and believe the slogans used to condemn it. The bill has the title “Parental Rights in Education.” But you may never have heard that name for the bill because LGBTQ critics and most of the establishment media only refer to it as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill.

For the record, the words “don’t say gay” don’t appear anywhere in the bill in any form. The so-called “Don’t Say Gay” bill doesn’t actually say “don’t say gay.” But activists have learned that if you say something long enough, that it becomes the public perception.

The bill prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation and gender in early years of grade school. Proponents see it as a common-sense response to leftist indoctrination in the schools. Others argue that a first-grade lesbian teacher should not be prevented from talking about her sexual involvement with her partner.

I would argue that heterosexual, homosexual, or transgender teachers should not be sharing their intimate information with their students. I grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area with a homosexual uncle. But I didn’t need to know all the details of him and his partner when I was in the first grade. Young children should be protected.

Unfortunately, the CEO of the Walt Disney Company believed the mischaracterization of the bill and called Florida Governor Ron DeSantis to express his concern. The call did not go well for Disney. Governor DeSantis later said in a video that “companies that have made a fortune off being family-friendly” need to understand that “parents of young kids do not want this injected into their kid’s kindergarten classrooms.”

Here’s my recommendation for CEOs at Coca Cola, Disney, and other corporations. Before you object to bills about childhood education or voter integrity, take the time to read the bills.