There are plenty of rules already against harassment and abuse, as there are against assault and physical violence. Those rules need to be enforced, and if they are not enforced it will not help to pass more rules. Harassment, abuse, and violence ought not to be permitted in schools against any students, including homosexuals, but not only they. To endorse that claim is a big step. Schools, it was once thought, should teach essential knowledge and build character.
Character depends upon the practice of the virtues, moral and intellectual.
The moral virtues encompass the fidelity and self-control that make familylife healthy. Without healthy family life, there would befew children. In that case Mary would have to bring many lambs to school, to avoid loneliness. AB 222 did not confine itself to restrictions against harassment. The draft under consideration until just oneday before the final vote would have affected what was said in the classroom upon the subject of family life.