While seemingly content with students being required to read novels with gay themes, liberal groups took issue with schools being required to teach theĀ U.S. Constitution.
According to Fox News, the South Carolina legislature passed a bill that restored funding that was cut from two public universities due to gay themed required reading material.
But the restored funding mustĀ be used “for instruction in the provisions and principles of the United States Constitution, the Declaration of Independence, and the Federalist Papers, including the study of and devotion to American institutions and ideals,” according to the legislation.
The schools are the University of South Carolina Upstate and the College of Charleston, whose president said at the time of the cuts that the school has the right to introduce controversial ideas to students, according to CNN.
Fox News reported:
The College of Charlestonās program selects one book a year for the entire campus to read, which this year was Alison Bechdel’s āFun Home,ā a memoir about the author growing up as a lesbian in rural Pennsylvania. USC-Upstateās program has first-year writing students all read the same book, which this year was āOut Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio,ā a compilation of stories shared on South Carolinaās first radio station for gays and lesbians.
The bill included a provision that schools with a mandatory reading program must offer an alternative for students with moral or religious objections, Fox News reported.
State Rep. Garry Smith, R-Greenville, told Fox News that his office received complaints from parents with children in both schools who were not given the choice to read an alternative book.
Among the groups who took exception to the new legislation are theĀ National Coalition Against Censorship and the American Civil Liberties UnionĀ of South Carolina, saying the legislation is a āsymbolic penalty.ā
āIt represents unwarranted political interference with academic freedom and undermines the integrity of the higher education system in South Carolina,ā said the groups.
Assuming that academic freedom falls within the rigid ideology of the left?
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