On his radio program today, Bryan Fischer was defending the “right” of the Creationist group Answers in Genesis to discriminate based on religion when hiring for its taxpayer-subsidized Noah’s Ark theme park in Kentucky when he got sidetracked and began demanding that if public schools are going to teach about homosexuality, they should be required to start with Sodom and Gomorrah.
For some reason, Fischer brought up California’s 2011 requirement that school districts include the contributions of gays and lesbians in their history curricula and then demanded that any such lesson plan begin with Sodom and Gomorrah.
“I will support you teaching homosexuality in California’s public schools on the condition that you start with Sodom and Gomorrah,” he said. “If you want to teach gay history in your public schools, then you’ve got to teach gay history. Gay history starts with Sodom and Gomorrah, so if you start there, you can teach all the gay history that you want”:
