Column: How 2.8 million California voters nearly banned gay teachers from public schools (via latimesopinion)
Sally Miller Gearhart’s death is a reminder of an era that seems both terribly remote and shockingly recent.
The brainchild, if you can call it that, of State Sen. John V. Briggs, an Orange County Republican, the initiative would have made it illegal for gays and lesbians to teach in California’s public schools.Gearhart and Harvey Milk, the San Francisco supervisor assassinated just weeks after the Proposition 6 election, were the co-chairs of the campaign to defeat it.
You can write Briggs off as a nut or a Neanderthal, but in fact he represented millions of people in California. “Whatever else it is, homosexuality is not a contagious disease like the measles,” Reagan wrote in a column in the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner just before the election. “Prevailing scientific opinion is that an individual’s sexuality is determined at a very early age and that a child’s teachers do not really influence this.”
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