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In the last 30 days, legislators in Kansas have proposed bills to deny services to people they believe are gay or lesbian and sanction spanking of children to the point of bruising - and that's on top of a lengthy list of restrictions on reproductive rights enacted with Republican Gov. Sam Brownback at the helm.From immigration to civil rights, it has seemed as though Arizona, North Carolina, or Texas was perhaps ground zero in the current culture wars. But the Sunflower State has worked hard this week to wrest that mantle for itself.
Kansas wasn't always this way.
The state has a strong progressive streak in its history. This is where Americans took a stand against slavery during the Civil War and it is where Topeka parents in 1951 filed suit against the city's board of education. That action led to one of the most historic Supreme Court Cases: Brown v. Board of Education, which ended school segregation.
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