The Alabama House of Representatives has passed a bill aimed at banning the teaching of any “divisive concept” to school students. The bill, HB 312, was passed mostly along party lines 65–32, and now moves to the Alabama Senate.
HB 312 defines a “divisive concept” as including any ideology that teaches (a) a race, religion, or sex as being inherently superior to another race, religion, or sex; (b) that the United States is an inherently sexist or racist state; (c) that any individual, solely due to his/her sex or race is inherently racist, sexist, and oppressive; (d) an individual, due to his race, sex, or religion, bears responsibility for past actions by other members of the same race, sex, or religion; and (e) an individual must be asked to accept or affirm a sense of guilt solely on the basis of sex or race, etc.
