The law gags discussion of LGBTQ families in every grade. Why won’t Republicans admit it?
Advertisementthat gay people prey on children, attempting to “convert” or “recruit” them into homosexuality then molesting them. Instead, to puncture these lies, let’s look at the words that Republican legislators used when drafting H.B. 1557. Unlike tweets, articles, and speeches in defense of the bill, wordsClaim #1: H.B. 1557 only applies to very young children.Proponents of the law unfailingly center this assertion in their defense of the bill. H.B.
Note the word I’ve emphasized: “or.” This word is disjunctive, meaning it separates different things. Here, it separates two groups of students to whom the law applies. The first group is students “in kindergarten through grade 3.” The second group is the remainder of “students” with no grade limitation—so, grades 4-12.The bill applies two different rules for these two different groups.
So what speech, exactly, does the law censor? The answer hinges on the preposition “on.” Here, again, a hypothetical is helpful. Imagine a bill that bans classroom instruction “on” slavery. A reasonable teacher would know that any overt mention of slavery is out. They would probably assume, too, that identifying someone as an enslaved person, or noting that someone owned slaves, would be forbidden. A discussion of the abolition movement would have to exclude any reference to its actual goals.
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