From
an article at Yahoo! News:
Revision Marches to Social Agenda
"At the urging of Leo and several other members -- who describe themselves as Christian conservatives -- the board this month approved new health textbooks for high school and middle school students after publishers said they would tweak references to marriage and sexuality.
One agreed to define marriage as a "lifelong union between a husband and a wife." Another deleted words that were attacked by conservatives as "stealth" references to gay relationships; "partners," for example, was changed to "husbands and wives." A passage explaining that adolescence brings the onset of "attraction to others" became "attraction to the opposite sex."
Leo said she pushed for the changes to combat the influence of "liberal New York publishers" who by "censoring" the definition of marriage were legitimizing same-sex unions."
Being raised in Small Town, Texas, I know from experience how hard it was to grow up gay in rural Texas.
It seems to me that we are taking one step forward and two steps back.
It's incredibly hard watching our country being hijacked by religious extremists.