Bill in Arizona senate bans sex ed in elementary, middle schools

[DesertRat]

In a state with several deplorable Republicans in government, imo Sylvia Allen is the worst.

A Republican senator wants to bar schools from teaching sex education before seventh grade.

The bill from Sen. Sylvia Allen, R-Snowflake, also deletes “homosexuality” from acts constituting “sexual conduct” in a section of the statutes, a move that appears to ban any discussion of homosexuality during sex ed courses.

Allen has already scheduled the measure for a Jan. 14 hearing in the Senate Education Committee, which she chairs, making it the first 2020 salvo in an conflict that’s been brewing since last spring, when lawmakers repealed a decades-old law that forbade the promotion of a “homosexual lifestyle.”

On the other side, Democratic Rep. Pamela Powers Hannley wants to require schools to teach comprehensive and “medically accurate” sex education on an opt-out basis. Senate Democrats plan to introduce similar legislation in their chamber.

https://azcapitoltimes.com/news/2020/01/08/bill-bans-sex-ed-in-elementary-middle-schools/

[Sherman A1]

1. Pardon me for a moment

[DesertRat]

4. Oh yes, she's the chair of the AZ Senate's education committee

She's a creationist who believes that the earth is 6,000 years old, that church attendance should be mandatory and warns of the "browning of America". Her rural constituents love her.

[Skittles]

2. that picture

WHAT THE EVER LOVING FUCK

[CaptYossarian]

9. We have Madame, now where's Wayland?

Seriously, with the Internet and cable, sex ed is obsolete. She should give fifth graders an essay test on sex and learn something. (Keep a bottle of Nitro nearby.)

[guillaumeb]

3. Using hair coloring products can affect the brain.

Look at Trump.

[CurtEastPoint]

5. She is FROM Snowflake or IS a Snowflake? What a goddamn lunatic. WTF is she wearing? READ THIS

From Wikipedia...her controversies:

In 2017, while Chairwoman of the Arizona Senate Education Committee, The George Washington Academy charter school, of which she is a co-owner and co-founder, received an "F" Grade[11] from the Arizona Department of Education.

During her tenure as a county supervisor, Allen was said to have attempted to interfere with an internal investigation into the conduct of her son-in-law, a detention officer, with female inmates in the Navajo County jail, where he worked. K.C. Clark, the Navajo County Sheriff, threatened to arrest her if she continued to interfere.[12] In March 2015, Allen filed a senate bill that would provide detention officers, like her son-in-law, with greater protections from disciplinary investigations.[12] Allen has indicated that she was made aware of misdeeds within the jail and that she informed the Sheriff believing he would want to know. According to Allen, that is when her son-in-law was targeted and she discovered the Sheriff was both aware of and part of the problems in the jail. The Sheriff (a Democrat) has made several accusations that outside groups have spread throughout Allen's district to defeat her in the 2016 General Election. Allen has countered the Sheriff's claims by pointing out that she has the endorsement of several police associations.

Speaking at a June 2009 Rural Development and Retirement Committee hearing regarding a uranium mine, Allen said the world was "6,000 years old."[13]

During a March 2015 Senate committee hearing on a bill that would relax concealed carry restrictions pertaining to public buildings, Allen, a member of the LDS Church, suggested that attending Sunday church services should be compulsory for Americans.[14][15] Arizona state senate Democrat Steve Farley argued that even if church attendance might prove beneficial for society at large, Allen's proposal was a clear violation of separation of church and state laws,[16] including the First Amendment to the US Constitution.[17]

In part of a speech she gave in July 2019, Allen lamented the "browning" of the United States,[18] claiming that the country would "look like South American countries very quickly", and complained that immigrants failed to "learn the principles of our country". When contacted by media outlets, Allen attempted to clarify by saying the reason this concerned her was that she viewed many South American countries as "socialist". These remarked were quickly denounced by many Arizona Democrats. Within the same speech, Allen claimed that "our boys are struggling to know how to be men" due to "this feminist movement" which was "destroying our families", and denounced the Equal Rights Amendment.

[DesertRat]

6. Oh yeah, I know

I made calls for her well qualified, rational thinking Democratic challenger in 2016. But it was a lost cause. They LOVE Allen in her district.
Snowflake is also Jeff Flake's hometown. It was founded by his ancestor, William Flake and Erastus Snow, both Mormon pioneers who put their names together to name the town.

[CurtEastPoint]

7. Thank you for campaigning for someone with a brain. She's pitiful.

[czarjak]

8. Disturbing pic...

[PandoraAwakened]

10. Which is why I never go to Snowflake, AZ

Thanks for posting. Everything about this evil woman is disturbing.