Is Modern Esquire a Liar on Ohio HB176?

In the comments to this post about Ohio HB 176, Modern Esquire calls my good friend Mark a liar:

The bill does NOT call for the Ohio Civil Rights Commission to work with the Department of Education to create any circulum regarding sexual orientation or gender identity at all.

You are flat out lying about this bill. Quote me the language of the bill that backs these claims up, because I've read the whole thing and cannot find anything that would support such nonsense.

Well, Modern Esquire, you need to read the bill again.

The bill modifies ORC Section 4112.04 so that it says this:

Sec. 4112.04. (A) The commission shall do all of the following:

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(9) Prepare a comprehensive educational program, in cooperation with the department of education, for the students of the primary and secondary public schools of this state and for all other residents of this state that is designed to eliminate prejudice on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, military status, familial status, national origin, disability, age, or ancestry in this state, to further good will among those groups, and to emphasize the origin of prejudice against those groups and discrimination, its their harmful effects, and its their incompatibility with American principles of equality and fair play;

Strikethroughs represent language being removed from ORC. Underlined text are additions.

Let me take out all the formatting and break this down again:

(9) Prepare a comprehensive educational program, in cooperation with the department of education, for the students of the primary and secondary public schools of this state and for all other residents of this state that is designed to eliminate prejudice in this state, and to emphasize the origin of prejudice and discrimination, their harmful effects, and its their incompatibility with American principles of equality and fair play;

Now, since you're a lawyer, you may not be aware that a "comprehensive educational program" is also known as a "curriculum" in education circles.

If you read the bill -- as you say you have -- then it is you who is "flat out lying" about what is in the bill.

And there is enough libertarian in me that I'm not real wild about government getting concerned with thought crimes...which is the slippery slope that this sort of legislation approaches anyway. I know, that's just another straw man argument or whatever...but it is a real concern.