Warning: not for young readers

A private preschool in Shenzhen, China just made international news for hiring a pole-dancer to sexualize welcome its 3-6-year-old students on the first day of school. With a bare midriff, black leather hot pants, and platform shoes, a young woman is seen bumping and grinding around a pole up on a stage, swinging her long ponytail in the kind of performance one would expect to see only in strip clubs and Hollywood movies. Posters advertising a pole-dancing school adorned the walls of the courtyard where the undulating performance took place. Principal Lai Rong—a woman—rationalized her decision by claiming that she wanted to “lighten up the atmosphere.” Has she ever heard of therapy pets, ventriloquists, or magicians?

Inquiring minds might be asking why the atmosphere at the preschool she runs is dark. Is she alluding to the fear some children experience when they attend school for the first time? If so, surely Rong can’t believe either that pole-dancing is going to help them or that pole-dancing is the only (or best) option for alleviating separation anxiety in little ones. Some—this writer included—might argue that exposing preschoolers to pole-dancing darkens rather than lightens the atmosphere.

Some shocked and offended parents tried to shield their children from seeing the unseemly spectacle, and some are reportedly seeking to withdraw their children from the school. In response to one mother’s objection, Rong justified pole-dancing as “good exercise.” Whatever happened to the Hokey Pokey?

But apparently not all parents objected. The Daily Mail quotes one parent as saying, “What kind of prejudice is this? What’s wrong with pole-dancing?… [P]ole dancing is just another art form!” Ah yes, of course, all moral disapproval from more tradition-oriented adults is “prejudice.” No need for an actual argument when name-calling will do.

Well, some argue that stripping is an art form and that “drag” is an art form. Some argue that the pornographic photos in Playboy Magazine are art. Some call a photo of a crucifix submerged in urine art. Some called Robert Mapplethorpe’s photograph of his own nether region from which a bullwhip is dangling “art.” Just slapping the word “art” on anything the darkened minds of fallen humans create, however, does not make it art. And if pole-dancing were art, it would be wholly inappropriate art for children.

This summer the Ames Public Library in Ames, Iowa defended its “Camp Drag” by claiming that it would “Provide interested young people with a unique opportunity… to learn the art of drag performance.” Ironically, this same summer a documentary about the beloved Mr. Rogers—a deeply faithful Christian—met with huge critical and popular success from even “progressives” who regularly present activities, images, and ideas to children that would have disturbed him.

Now we’ve got drag queen story hours for toddlers in taxpayer-subsidized public libraries all across the country and a public library in Iowa hosting a drag camp for the kiddies, so how long until we have public libraries hosting pole-dancing workshops for the little ones? Why would pole-dancing be a greater moral offense than drag queen story hours? The kinds of things a generation or two ago could be found only in triple-X book stores and clubs in seedy city neighborhoods or remote stretches of highways, or in the basements of weirdos, “progressives” now work like the devil to show to our children and teens. Picture books about homosexuality and cross-dressers, story time with drag queens, teen magazine tutorials on anal sex, and now pole-dancing for preschoolers. This is where the sexual revolution has taken us. It’s baffling that “progressives” can see the rotting forest for the trees and still believe America (or anywhere else) is a better place—especially for children—than it was before the sexual revolution ruined everything.

Listen to this article read by Laurie:

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Two young couples and their young children attended an Independence Day parade in a conservative Illinois town. For the fourth year in a row, a homosexual “pride” float was a noxious presence in the parade. This year one of the fathers gave it a “thumbs down” as it passed by, which resulted in some other onlookers booing him. One man said to him, “think about the kids.”

Surely this man jested.

Was this pudd’nhead thinking about the children who are being acquired by homosexuals who deliberately deny them either a mother or a father? Was he thinking about the boys who will be lost in the spiritual and temporal darkness of homosexuality and will likely end up suffering from sexually transmitted infections? Was he thinking about the children who had to be exposed to this celebration of perversion? Was he thinking about the children who will never be placed in good homes with Christian parents because homosexuals and their ideological allies are forcing religious adoption agencies to close? Was he thinking about the very young children who are being taught in government schools to affirm disordered sexuality?

Why is it deemed socially acceptable for “progressives” to express their views of homosexuality through the symbolism of a float, but it is deemed socially unacceptable for conservatives to express their views of celebrations of deviant body- and soul-destroying sexuality through the symbolism of a barely noticeable “thumbs down”? And is giving a “thumbs down” to a float a more grievous offense than booing a person?

However did we get to a point in America where an Independence Day parade for families includes a float celebrating that which God abhors and everyone sits there like sheeple? If our heads were screwed on right, if our hearts were properly formed, if our spines had been built strong in 12 ways, there would be protests at city halls across the country. But you can’t have an effective protest if no one comes. And so, through incrementalism ignored, the pro-perversion movement metastasizes.

I wonder what the shepherd-less sheeple will do when trannies march in the July 4^th parades and then hightail it over to the library for drag queen story hour for the little ones, or when more public libraries host tranny-training summer camps for 5-year-olds like the Ames, Iowa library is offering at the end of July.

The Ames Public Library—which has for the past two years “hosted drag shows”—is wasting $600 of taxpayer money to host “Camp Drag” for children ages 5-11 and 11-18. At this four-week camp, 5-year-olds will learn about the culture and history of the sick world of cross-dressing “entertainment” as well as participate in workshops on “makeup, costuming, and performance skills.” And all of this is rationalized by slopping the adjectives “inclusivity,” “safety,” “acceptance,” “fun,” and “fearlessness” on the sordid—formally adult world—of “drag.”

I think we all know what the shepherd-less, spineless, heartless, mindless sheeple will do.

Nothing.

Listen to this article read by Laurie:

https://staging.illinoisfamily.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Perversion-Poisons-Childhood-in-America.mp3

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