Thu Jul 27, 2023 – 3:53 pm EDT
RIVERSIDE COUNTY, California (LifeSiteNews) – A California school district is backing down after Democrat governor and potential presidential candidate Gavin Newsom announced the state would be intervening over the district’s rejection of a supplemental textbook promoting late LGBT icon Harvey Milk.
On July 17, LifeSiteNews reported that in May the Temecula Valley Unified School District (TVUSD) Board of Education voted to reject a state-recommended social studies curriculum over its inclusion of supplemental material intended for fourth graders concerning Milk, the former San Francisco supervisor and California’s first openly homosexual elected official who was killed in 1978 by a disgruntled ex-colleague.
Milk’s death made him a martyr for LGBT activists under a prevailing narrative suggesting he was murdered for his sexuality, when in fact his killer, Dan White, who also killed Mayor George Moscone the same day, was a former friend of Milk with mixed positions on “gay rights” issues, and actually shot both men because he blamed them for keeping him off the city’s Board of Supervisors.
TVUSD board members objected to the material’s favorable depiction of Milk due to his alleged history of illicit relations with underage
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