{"id":1519,"date":"2017-03-09T15:57:36","date_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:57:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/?p=1519"},"modified":"2017-03-09T14:59:00","modified_gmt":"2017-03-09T19:59:00","slug":"cbldf-joins-letter-asking-va-governor-to-again-veto-beloved-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/2017\/03\/09\/cbldf-joins-letter-asking-va-governor-to-again-veto-beloved-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"CBLDF Joins Letter Asking VA Governor to Again Veto \u2018Beloved Bill\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div class=\"WordSection1\">\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Like the versions from last year, the bills purport to require \u201ca noninflammatory, objective, and balanced viewpoint on issues\u201d presented in textbooks and other instructional materials. But the two groups pushing the legislation, the Florida   Citizens\u2019 Alliance and Better Collier County Public Schools, have in the past raised objections to the teaching of climate change and evolution, as well as books with LGBTQ themes. Advocacy groups including the National Center for Science Education and Florida   Citizens for Science warn that the true objective of the bills is \u201cinserting creationism and climate change doubts into the classroom.\u201d<o:p><\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p>&nbsp;<\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cbldf.org\/2017\/03\/florida-classroom-censorship-bills-return-for-second-year\/\">cbldf.org\/2017\/03\/florida-classroom-censorship-bills-return-for-second-year\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&nbsp; Like the versions from last year, the bills purport to require \u201ca noninflammatory, objective, and balanced viewpoint on issues\u201d presented in textbooks and other instructional materials. But the two groups pushing the legislation, the Florida Citizens\u2019 Alliance and Better Collier County Public Schools, have in the past raised objections <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/2017\/03\/09\/cbldf-joins-letter-asking-va-governor-to-again-veto-beloved-bill\/\" title=\"CBLDF Joins Letter Asking VA Governor to Again Veto \u2018Beloved Bill\u2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-banned-books-awareness-and-reading-for-knowledge"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bbark.deepforestproductions.com\/column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}