BLEEDING HEARTLAND: Top Iowa Republicans deny obvious impact of anti-LGBTQ bill
Originally posted on Feb. 17
Iowa House Speaker Pat Grassley complained this week that a centerpiece of this year’s Republican education agenda has been “misconstrued.”
Grassley and House Education Committee chair Skyler Wheeler claimed Republicans are only trying to “let kids be kids.”
Their spin defies a plain reading of the bill that would remove all teaching about gender identity or sexual orientation from Iowa’s elementary schools.
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