A bill in the California state legislature would “forbid the teaching of any material that reflects adversely on persons due to sexual orientation. ‘One of the things that contribute to a safe or unsafe environment for kids are the teaching materials. If you have teaching material that didn’t say anything at all about gay and lesbian people, it is assumed that they never did anything at all. But if it said anything about gay and lesbian people, the whole atmosphere of the school was safer for gay and lesbian kids, or those thought to be gay and lesbian’.”