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Opponents Of California’s LGBT Education Law Start Gathering Signatures For Ballot Initiative | “The Capitol Resource Institute received the OK today from the California Sec. of State to begin circulating signatures-gathering petitions to place a ballot initiative on the June 2012 ballot to overturn SB 48, the California FAIR Education Act,” Karen Ocamb reports. The measure, which Gov. Jerry Brown (D) signed into law earlier this month, “requires schools to start teaching about LGBT history and contributions starting Jan. 1, 2012. Inclusion in California textbooks has been deferred until 2015 because of the economy.” If the groups gather “504,000 valid signatures by mid-October and does qualify – the initiative would be placed on the June 2012 ballot.”