People aren’t vague just because they’re ignorant they’re not vague because they’re sloppy they’re not vague because they’re lazy,” Copeland said. “Vagueness is deployed for certain purposes. Joe Harding during a legislative session Jan. Joe Harding, one of the bill’s sponsors, read the definition of the word “instruction” from what appeared to be a dictionary. When asked by a Democratic lawmaker to explain what the instruction of sexual orientation or gender identity would look like, Republican state Rep. The bill’s sponsors did not directly answer repeated queries to provide examples of “instruction” of sexual orientation or gender identity during House and Senate debate. “Am I teaching about what the Constitution says in that case, or am I teaching about sexual orientation?” he asked. Calvert raised the prospect of answering a student’s question about how same-sex couples marry each other.
