Iowa Bill Expands “Don’t Say Gay” To All Grades K-12

February 13, 2025 Christianists, Republicans

Iowa Public Radio reports:

LGBTQ topics would be banned from middle school and high school curriculum under a bill advancing in the Iowa House that seeks to expand a law that currently applies to Kindergarten through sixth grade. Republican legislators passed a law in 2023 that bans instruction about gender identity and sexual orientation before seventh grade. That law is being challenged in federal court. The bill advanced Wednesday by Republicans on a House subcommittee would extend that prohibition through high school.

Rep. Skyler Wheeler, R-Hull, and Rep. Henry Stone, R-Forest City, advanced the bill to the full House Education Committee. Wheeler said parents are frequently bringing him examples of things in schools that he said are “absurd,” including rainbow flags that he said are larger than the American or Iowa flag. “I’m tired of having parents bring lesson plans to me where it’s clearly pushing an agenda,” he said. “I am sick of it, and I know Iowans are sick of it. That’s why we are sitting in a supermajority.”

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Wheeler [photo above] last appeared here in March 2024 for his bill that sought to criminalize IVF.

Weeks earlier, we heard from him for his bill requiring public school students to stand and sing the national anthem “at least once a day.”

Wheeler first appeared here in March 2023 when he sponsored a bill that would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage “in accordance with the laws of nature and nature’s God.”



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