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Arizona governor bans local governments from forcing critical race theory on employees

Updated: July 12, 2021 at 6:57 pm EST  See Comments

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PHOENIX, July 12, 2021 (LifeSiteNews) – Arizona Republican Gov. Doug Ducey signed a new law Friday forbidding local governments from making the most controversial tenets of critical race theory (CRT) part of the training of government employees.

HB 2906 “prohibits the state and any local governments from requiring their employees to engage in orientation, training or therapy that suggest an employee is inherently racist, sexist or oppressive, whether consciously or unconsciously,” the governor’s office said in a press release.

“I am not going to waste public dollars on lessons that imply the superiority of any race and hinder free speech,” Ducey declared. “House Bill 2906 goes a long way towards protecting Arizonans against divisive and regressive lessons.”

The action follows his final approval the previous week for HB 2986, which imposes a $5,000 fine on any public school that teaches “that one race, ethnic group or sex is in any way superior to another, or that anyone should be discriminated against on the basis of these characteristics,” according to a summary from the governor’s office.

CRT asserts that “race

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