Moms for Liberty watch out: California Gov. Gavin Newsom is fighting to cease school book bans in the Golden State. Newsom has been engaged in a running battle with a recently elected extremist school board in Southern California that voted in May to reject a social studies curriculum that included a textbook with materials referencing LGBTQ+ activist Harvey Milk.
Milk became one of the first openly gay elected officials in the U.S. in 1977 when he was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Milk and San Francisco Mayor George Moscone were assassinated nearly a year later by a disgruntled former city supervisor.
Newsom is offering an example for how Democrats can fight back strongly without resorting to offensive or dehumanizing language—a much-discussed topic on this site in recent days. On Thursday, Newsom announced that the state would be purchasing the banned textbooks and distributing them to students in the Temecula school district.
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