Des Moines’ ABC affiliate reports:

An Iowa House bill that would further prohibit discussion of LGBTQ topics in schools is advancing through the Legislature. An identical version of it, on the Senate side, was approved in an education subcommittee on Jan. 21. The House bill is a bit further along and is now ready for a full floor vote. “I genuinely don’t understand why we would move forward with this when it’s being tied up on the courts,” Rep. Elinor A. Levin, D-Iowa City, said.

In 2023, a new Iowa law prohibited educators from teaching about gender identity and sexual orientations to kindergarten through sixth grade students. The bill being discussed this session would do the same for seventh through 12th grade students. A federal judge in May called the law for kindergarten through sixth grade students “unconstitutionally vague.” He ruled that teachers can reference their partners, even if they’re same-sex, and students must be allowed to join Gender Sexuality Alliances or GSAs.

Read the full article. The Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition testified in support of the bill.

The bill’s author, Rep. Skyler Wheeler [photo above] last appeared here in March 2024 for his bill that sought to criminalize IVF.

Weeks earlier, we heard from him for his bill requiring public school students to stand and sing the national anthem “at least once a day.”

Wheeler first appeared here in March 2023 when he sponsored a bill that would amend the state constitution to ban same-sex marriage “in accordance with the laws of nature and nature’s God.”

In the video below, Wheeler appears on a Moms For Liberty podcast to scream about Jesus and parental rights.