"It's not like you're not allowed to literally not say gay" Maher, 66, said during the "Overtime" segment of the late-night program, of the remark since the bill made it through Florida's Republican-dominated Senate Tuesday, and is not set to be signed by GOP Governor Ron DeSantis.
"They just don't want teachers talking about it. They think it's the province of parents," Maher said.
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Speaking with New York Times columnist Frank Bruno and Newsweek deputy opinion editor Batya Ungar-Sargon of the guidance, Maher said: "I think it's only, they're talking about kindergarten to third grade. So, we're talking about very young kids."
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"Maybe kids that young shouldn't be thinking about sex at all."
Bruni, 57, meanwhile, dismissed the bill as a "culture war that's meant to solve cheap, easy points rather than really solving America's problems," indicating a prevailing issue such as outfall from the pandemic and the nation’s current financial crisis amid inflation.
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However, Ungar-Sargon differed, arguing that the bill is aimed at preserving parents' rights.
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Bruni proceeded to compare the current situation to a similar liberal outcry seen after DeSantis introduced the Stop WOKE Act in December, legislation to prohibit critical race theory, which states that racism is systematically ingrained into American society - teaching in schools and workplaces across the state.
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"Do we know that this was an enormous problem, pervasive in Florida schools?" Bruni asked Ungar-Sargon. "This reeks to me of something that happened on a few occasions and has been blown into something."
Maher proceeded to push back against Bruni's comparison. "Well, I don't know about that - the same thing with the race, with the CRT [critical race theory]thing," the host said, disregarding the comparison.
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"I feel like it's disingenuous when the liberals say, you know, 'We just want to teach history.'"
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Maher went on: "And like … most reasonable people are not against realistically teaching history - it's not like you can't mention slavery. They're telling you about something else that is going on."
"I've read too many reports, too many first-person reports from teachers who say, "I can't go on teaching like this because this is insanity what I'm doing in this classroom, separating kids by race and oppressors and non-oppressors."
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"And they're little kids. It is going on," Maher said.
The progressive talking head went on to read an excerpt of the new bill, which "would require districts to adopt procedures for notifying a student's parent if there is a change in the student's services or monitoring related to the student's mental, emotional or physical health or well-being."