A recent Gallop poll found that 7.1 percent of Americans now identify as LGBTQ. This is a 100 percent increase since 2012 and a 26 percent increase over 2021!
But it’s even worse.
George Barna, founder of the Barna Group, is a professor at Arizona Christian University and leads the Cultural Research Center based there. His groundbreaking research on cultural trends, especially within the church, is cited worldwide. Last year, Barna found that among those ages 18-24, thirty-nine percent self-identified as LGBTQ!
Just last week, a family member told her mom that she has 2 lesbians in her class. She’s 12 years old.
How is this even possible when twenty years ago, that number of LGBTQ individuals was 2-3 percent at best?
One does not have to look far to see who’s behind this deception. The biggest contributors to this concerning trend are public schools and their willing accomplices, Illinois lawmakers. They have been slowly pushing and promoting sexual deviancy for years.
It didn’t happen overnight. Here’s some history.
In 2013, Illinois lawmakers mandated that all public schools that taught any type of sex ed must teach so-called “comprehensive” sex ed. This included 6th graders being taught that homosexuality, bisexuality and transgenderism is simply another way to express oneself sexually. We are talking about teaching this corruption to 11 or 12-year-old impressionable children!
In 2015, Illinois lawmakers passed HB 217 which banned all professional counseling for minors who experience unwanted same-sex attraction and gender confusion. This means that any professional counselor could lose their license if someone turns them in for helping a young person who wants help.
In 2017, Illinois lawmakers passed HB 1785 which allows individuals to change the gender on their birth certificate.
In 2019, Illinois lawmakers mandated that public school history lessons include the roles and accomplishments of the LGBTQ community.
In 2019 Illinois lawmakers added “non-binary” to gender designation on all state forms, including driver’s licenses.
And in 2021, Illinois lawmakers approved SB 818. This bill was backed by abortion-determined groups like Planned Parenthood and LGBTQ advocacy groups like Equality Illinois.
SB 818 mandates that any school that teaches safety, health, or sex ed class must teach comprehensive sex ed to align with the National Sexuality Education Standards. These standards were written by progressive LGBTQ groups and those that profit from early sexual activity such as Planned Parenthood. Plus, as these standards change (get more pornographic), so will the sex ed in Illinois.
SB 818 requires that sex ed begin in kindergarten where children will learn all about homosexuality and transgenderism. Each grade level will affirm what has been previously taught and introduce the children to a wider range of deviancy, often using pornographic cartoon-like graphics.
And less you think the insanity stops here, lawmakers passed HB 24 which introduces 6th graders to sexting. And last but not least, they passed one of the most insane bills ever – HB 156 – which requires tampons and other feminine hygiene products be placed in boys bathrooms in public schools with your tax dollars.
Children are being exposed to an ideology that is not only pornographic but thoroughly confusing to them. And this begins in kindergarten and continues every year through 12th grade.
If an adult exposed a young child to this same material outside of the classroom, they would be accused of disseminating obscene material, and accused of being a pedophile. This heinous material is not only grooming children for early sexual activity, but it’s encouraging experimentation with dangerous sexual behaviors.
Many of those promoting this agenda are those who profit from sexualized children. Furthermore, those same people have lobbyists in Springfield and Washington D.C., working against parents and grandparents; pushing mandates while purchasing the votes of morally deficient lawmakers to do their bidding.
It’s not a mystery that the numbers of those now “self-identifying” as LBGTQ+ who are experimenting with all sexual behavior at astoundingly early ages is increasing. It is being taught to your children. It is being celebrated by their teachers and it is being protected by lawmakers. Get your children out of public school!
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Finally, a Sports Association Commits to Fairness
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The infamous William “Will” Thomas, who now pretends to be a woman and goes by the name “Lia,” has had a long-time goal of swimming in the Olympics—a goal thwarted by the fact that he is not fast enough. A little thing like insufficient speed, however, is no obstacle for a man who thinks he can become a woman by wishing really hard. Superstitions die hard, especially in a science-denying culture that worships the self and believes fentanyl use is “empowerment.” So, Thomas soldiers on wearing womanface and a woman’s speedo covering his man parts, hoping to make Olympic trials in 2024.
In an interview with Good Morning America, Thomas said,
I knew there would be scrutiny against me if I competed as a woman. … but I also knew I don’t need anyone’s permission to be myself.
Thomas’s self is male, so taking estrogen and cross-dressing constitute a denial of himself.
Thomas is not seeking permission to be himself. He’s demanding to swim on a women’s team when he’s a man. Objecting to a man swimming on the women’s team is not a denial of permission to be himself. It is a denial of his demand that everyone play along with his desire to masquerade as a woman.
When asked about his change in rankings after he began swimming on the women’s team, Thomas responded that swimming success didn’t factor into his decision. All that he sought was to be his “authentic self”:
The biggest change for me is I’m happy. … Trans people don’t transition for athletics. We transition to be happy and authentic and our true selves.
All that matters to Thomas are his feelings—not the feelings of female teammates or competitors who too have trained their whole lives only to see hopes and dreams destroyed because Thomas wishes he were a woman.
It is widely reported that Thomas—a man with all his man parts—undressed in women’s locker rooms. Many women strongly feel that as women, they should not and do not want to undress in the presence of male peers. For some of these women, those feelings derive from their faith. Thomas, therefore, denied them permission to be their authentic selves. He made them unhappy.
Well, finally the World Swimming Coaches Association (WSCA) has found some sanity and courage in a dusty corner of a chlorine-choked locker room and tossed another obstacle in the lane of Will Thomas.
On May 13, 2022, the WSCA issued its position statement on “transgender” swimmers, that is, on swimmers who pretend to be the sex they are not and never can be. The statement, unfortunately infused with “trans”-cultic language, reads in part,
[T]he inclusion of transgender people into female sport cannot be balanced with fairness due to the retained differences in strength, stamina and physique that are present when comparing the average female with the average transgender female/non-binary person who was assigned male at birth (whether with or without the involvement of testosterone suppression). This is the primary factor to be considered in an endeavour to balance fairness with inclusion.
A “transgender female” is a male. Non-binary persons don’t exist. And no one is “assigned” either a sex, or a gender, or a gender identity at birth. But at least the WSCA acknowledges that men and women are different, and those differences matter when it comes to sports.
The WSCA offers a solution:
One … solution is to create a Trans Division. The Trans Females [i.e., men or female impersonators] will race each other. The Trans Males [i.e., females or male impersonators] will race each other. There is an argument that the Trans Males have been completely lost in this debate because they are uncompetitive in our current structure. This would also allow those of indeterminate gender to be factored into such a solution.
This solution would enable Thomas to be his “authentic” self: a “trans” person.
Evidently, the WSCA is not up to date on current Newspeak. “Gender” refers to the aggregate of behaviors, conventions, roles, and expectations associated with sex of male or female. As such, there is no such thing as a person possessing an “indeterminate gender.”
Perhaps the WSCA was using “gender” in the old-fashioned way, as a synonym for biological sex. If so, neither Will Thomas nor any other “trans”-identifying swimmer has an “indeterminate gender.” Smith has a definite “gender,” and it’s male.
Like other supporters of the sexual integration of sports who grasp at any defense they can concoct, Thomas trots out the tired and patently silly claim that since there is physical diversity among women athletes, women’s sports should include men:
I’m not a medical expert, but there is a lot of variation among cis female athletes or cis women who are very tall and very muscular and have more testosterone than other cis women. Should that then disqualify them?
Well then, why should women’s sports be limited to women? Why should only men who pretend to be women be allowed to participate in women’s sports?
If the fact that some women have more testosterone than others justifies allowing men who pretend to be women to participate in women’s sports, why not let men who don’t pretend to be women participate in women’s sports? Thomas can’t say, “Well, they’re not women,” because he’s not a woman either. And he can’t say, “Well, they’re not transgender” because that would constitute discrimination based on “gender identity.”
Leftists claim that anti-discrimination policies and commitments to equality demand that men who pretend to be women be treated exactly like women. Such a claim is nonsense. If commitments to anti-discrimination were intended to prohibit all distinctions based on both sex and “gender identity,” then there should be no sex-segregated activities for anyone anywhere.
If sports cannot take into account either sex or “gender identity,” then there should be no single sex sports at all. If swim teams allow Will Thomas to swim on the women’s team, then they should allow Michal Phelps to as well. Allowing Thomas to swim on the women’s team while prohibiting Phelps would constitute discrimination based on “gender identity,” and as Thomas believes, we can’t have that.
With regard to equality: commitments to equality entail treating like things alike. Equality does not entail or require treating unlike things alike. Will Thomas is a thing unlike those things called women. The fundamental distinction in sports is not height, muscle mass, and hormone levels. The fundamental distinction is biological sex, which shapes average biological differences. Sure, the fastest female swimmer may be faster than the slowest male swimmer. But the fastest males will always be faster than the fastest women.
We ignore “trans”-cultic beliefs and practices at our own peril. Left unopposed, they threaten our First Amendment speech rights and religions liberty. They threaten the right of parents to raise their children in accordance with truth. They threaten the privacy of all Americans in spaces in which men and women engage in personal acts, like going to the bathroom, undressing, and tending to menstrual needs–which only women do. They threaten women’s sports. And they threaten the safety of girls and women.
A new national poll from McLaughlin & Associates of likely November voters finds that 78 percent of Americans do not believe transgenderism is a “healthy human condition.” That same large percentage of Americans agreed that minor children suffering from gender confusion should be “required to wait until they are adults” before undergoing life-altering drugs and surgeries. Moreover, 90 percent believe that medical professionals performing gender-altering procedures should be required by law to disclose the long-term medical and psychological impact of such procedures.
An overwhelming 93 percent of those surveyed say it is “possible to distinguish between men and women.” Most of those surveyed (72 percent) also do not want schools teaching elementary-age children about sexual orientation and gender identity with 38 percent saying it was “inappropriate” and another 30 percent saying is “dangerous because it can lead to children being groomed for sexual encounters at an early age.”
However, the pollsters also found that a large portion of those surveyed are afraid to speak about this issue due to fear of retribution. One-third say they keep their views on this to themselves. Only 30 percent say they are willing to express their views on this in public.
This article was originally published by the AFA of Indiana.
Colorado School Employees Conspire to Change a Conservative Community
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In May of 2021, Wellington, Colorado art and homeroom teacher Jenna Riep invited a 12-year-old girl who was new to the school to attend an afterschool art club. The girl asked for and was given permission to attend the club from her mother. But the artful dodger Jenna Riep had misrepresented the afterschool club meeting. In other words, Riep had lied to the student. It was not an afterschool art club, and the meeting had nothing to do with art. It was a meeting of the school’s “Genders and Sexuality Alliance” (GSA) club, and the guest speaker was lesbian Kimberly Chambers, who identifies as an “educator, activist, and queer woman.”
Though the wildly inappropriate incident at Wellington Middle School happened a year ago, it has just become a national story in the past two weeks. Consequently, troubling details continue to emerge illuminating the ignorance and arrogance of leftists who are not only ideologically grooming other people’s children but also trying to hide their grooming from parents.
Erin Lee, the courageous mother of the student who was lied to by her trusted homeroom teacher, shares that queer activist Chambers told students the following (comments in red are mine):
If a child is not 100% comfortable with her body, she’s “transgender.” (FALSE)
If parents are not “safe,” it’s okay for children to lie to them in order to attend these club meetings. (FALSE)
Whatever is discussed in the club must not be shared outside the club meetings, not even with parents. (UNETHICAL and INAPPROPRIATE)
Heterosexuality and monogamy are not normal. (FALSE and INAPPROPRIATE)
Chambers told students that she is “safe” and gave them “her personal contact information, and encouraged them to contact her on the social media platforms Discord and What’s App.” (UNETHICAL and INAPPROPRIATE)
Chambers led students in the “Genderbread person activity,” which asks students who they are “physically attracted to: men, women, or other gender/s.” (CREEPY)
Chambers told students about a Colorado law that “allows a minor 12 years of age or older to seek and obtain psychotherapy services … without the consent of the minor’s parent or guardian.” (INAPPROPRIATE)
Imagine if a man on a park bench invited a 12-year-old girl to an art club that turned out not to be an art club in which he asked her if she is physically attracted to men or women, told her that her parents weren’t safe but he is, told her not to tell anyone what he had said, and gave her information on how she could secretly contact him. How is what Riep and Chambers did less offensive? Why should anyone presume or trust that public school teachers or unknown speakers are safe?
Lee contacted Chambers who runs an “LGBTQ” activist organization geared toward minors called SPLASH. Chambers confirmed the content of her presentation, and then the busybody/buttinsky Chambers flew to her computer to send an email to Riep, school counselor Katie Delahunt (who uses the pronouns she/her), and “Charlie,” warning them to watch out for unsafe parent Erin Lee:
Tread lightly because this parent has HUGE potential to coming in to understanding or rejecting their child. … [C]an you politely remind their student that the room is a safe space and that she should not share the names of her friends in attendance? I’ll reply to the email with you all bcc’d. … Any conversation with this parent should have the impression in our minds as “evidence”, verbiage is everything.
“Evidence”? Evidence of what? The crime of wrongthink? Leftists who claim to love diversity are always on the prowl for anyone who thinks differently than they do.
Please note the false dichotomy implied in Chambers’ statement: Either parents “understand” their gender-confused children or they reject them. And by “understand,” Chambers means affirm and celebrate their “trans”-cultic beliefs and practices.
But there is a third possibility. Parents may understand their child, accept and love them, and yet reject “trans”-cultic beliefs and practices.
Chambers has been busy promoting her agenda for years, including bringing drag queen story hour to the Windsor-Severance Public Library in 2018. Chambers believes that children ages 2-8 are “exactly the age group that should be hearing” messages from drag queens.
Three days after the fake art club meeting, the untrustworthy busybody Chambers began agitating for the school to check on the student. At 9:19 a.m. on May 7, 2021, Chambers sent an email to collaborator Riep asking, “Have you been able to check in with [the student] to make sure she is okay?”
Chambers didn’t ask if Riep had checked in with the parents to make sure the student was okay. No, parents were excluded. In the inclusive world of leftists, parents who they suspect may be conservative are excluded.
At 4:00 p.m. on the same day, Chambers sent another email to Riep:
If [the student’s absence] persists, you’ll want to talk to admin about doing a well-child check.
Chambers recommended the school call in the government to check on a child for no reason other than the parents objected to her “trans” indoctrination.
What Chambers did not know and had no right to know was that Lee and her husband had removed their daughter from Wellington and placed her in a safe place—that is, a private Christian school.
Enquiring minds may be wondering why school counselor Katie Delahunt was included in the email from Chambers. As it turns out Delahunt, who is a co-sponsor of the GSA that identifies occasionally as an art club, spearheaded the effort to bring Chambers to Wellington Middle School.
On the morning of April 13, 2021, Delahunt had seen a presentation by Chambers that sent a thrill up her leg, so she emailed Chambers:
Thank you for your presentation this morning! I really appreciated learning more about SPLASH. I co-sponsor the GSA at Wellington Middle School and am excited to share your resources with our students, who are struggling to express their identities in a very conservative community.
Chambers responded equally excitedly that she had long wanted to get into the community of Wellington but needed a connection. A Zoom meeting was scheduled for Monday April 19 at 1:00 p.m. between Delahunt, Riep, Chambers, and the mysterious “Charlie,” during which Chambers’ visit to the school-sponsored GSA at Wellington was scheduled for May 4.
To be clear, Delahunt assumed the right to use her taxpayer-funded position to change the values of the “conservative community” that employs her. This means that Delahunt had already concluded that “trans” beliefs and practices are right and that dissenting conservative beliefs are wrong, which is her right as an individual. It is not, however, her right to impose her personal moral beliefs in her job as a government employee.
The mysterious “Charlie” is a young woman who calls herself “Silen Charlie Wellington,” pretends to be a man, goes by the pronouns “they/them,” and describes herself as, among other things, a “witch” and “genderqueer shapeshifter” and works with SPLASH. In a blog post, Wellington waxes positive about polyamory, Tinder “dating,” and kink dungeons, and here’s an excerpt from a poem written by the troubled Wellington that expresses her anarchical vision for the future:
When I look at my family tree
I want to see drag queens
I want to see gender f*ck aliens and pansy boy princes
I want to see men with crescent shape scars on their chest …
I want to see girls who … had to learn make-up in closets full of stale boy clothes …
I want to see women with 5 o’clock shadows who refuse to pass.
While she may be just the kind of person leftists believe should influence children, I’m not sure how many parents would agree.
After calling Chambers, Lee and her husband met with principal Kelby Benedict and asked to see all the materials presented in the indoctrination session. According to Lee, Benedict said that because all materials used belonged to the speaker, the school does not have access to them.
In addition, Benedict said the school’s failure to notify parents about the GSA club meeting was deliberate because the school has “to offer a safe space for kids,” and as Lee’s daughter learned from Chambers, families are no longer reliably safe.
Perhaps Benedict has never considered that promoting cross-sex impersonation may make kids less safe. Perhaps he should spend some time reading the stories of detransitioners, or reading about the side effects of puberty blockers and cross-sex hormone-doping, or looking at photos of the carved-up bodies of young women.
When the scandal blew up nationally less than two weeks ago, several more troubling things happened. Superintendent Brian Kingsley released a video message with the usual cliché claptrap from the lemming-like world of education. Here is an excerpt:
[W]e have a duty to prepare each of our students for real life. This means providing information and resources about the real world. … To our LGBTQIA+ students and staff and your families: You will continue to be welcomed and celebrated in PSD as your authentic self. Every student is unique and deserves an education system that respects their uniqueness and individuality. To build that system, we have a shared responsibility between families and our school district to keep every student safe. … To achieve that, there must be trusting relationships between students, families and schools. Trust is built through listening, empathy, credibility and transparency. Trust is not built with hate.
Do Kingsley, Riep, Delahunt, and Chambers know the real world includes people who oppose the normalization of cross-sex impersonation, who believe that biological sex exists and has profound meaning, and who believe the shocking increase in adolescent girls who identify as “trans” suggests they have been infected with a social contagion?
Do Kingsley et al. know the real world includes people who think what they–Kingsley et al.–are doing with regard to sexuality is making children far less safe?
Do Kingsley et al. know the real world includes people who understand that adolescents often feel angry or hurt by truthful things adults say?
Do Kingsley et al. know the real world includes people who believe that neither love nor safety requires affirmation of everything people feel, think, and do?
If, however, love and safety do entail affirmation, approval, and celebration of everything people feel, think, and do, will Kingsley, Riep, Delahunt, and Chambers affirm and celebrate authentic Christian, Orthodox Jewish, and Muslim identities in exactly the same ways they affirm and celebrate “trans” identities?
Will Poudre School District provide “information and resources” about the real-world phenomena just listed?
Kingsley asserts that trust is built by transparency—not hate. Why then the lack of transparency? Why aren’t parents notified about club speakers and meeting content? Why did Riep tell Lee’s daughter that the meeting was an art club? Why are students told that what takes place in a school-sponsored club stays in the school-sponsored club?
And why did Kingsley refer to hate? Is he suggesting that Erin Lee’s opposition to non-transparent “trans” indoctrination is hateful?
After Kingsley’s video came out on May 13, 2022, the district’s communication director sent talking points to teachers telling them how to respond to any calls from community members, the most noteworthy of which says,
If they ask to submit a permission slip saying that their student cannot be in XYZ club, you can respond with: I appreciate that you want to do so, but parents do not opt their students in or out of clubs in [Poudre School District] so there is no option to do so.
That doesn’t sound like recognizing the rightful role of parents in their children’s lives, supporting parents’ roles in advocating for their own children, or partnering with parents—all things government schools purport to value. Rather, it sounds like appropriation of children for the goal of colonizing their minds and hearts with leftist beliefs.
Superintendent Kingsley had some chuckle-worthy and illuminating things to say in an interview with students. Kingsley asserted that “Humility is a huge aspect of me as a person.” Between his actions and his oxymoronic claim, I think his humility is huge in the same sense that Bruce Jenner is a woman.
Kingsley went on to talk about representation:
Some people [express themselves] through writing, the arts, athletics, I think really giving a solid look at how we’re giving young adults an opportunity to express themselves – and paying attention to that—so students feel like their identities are being affirmed. So, they see themselves in the curriculum.
I’m sure students do want their “identities” affirmed and represented in curricula. So, how about representing those who identify as zoophiles, sibling-lovers, nymphomaniacs, and polyamorists. What about young adults who identify as white supremacists and minor-attracted persons?
And then there are these words from the silly Kingsley, the man with colossal humility:
“I want school to feel like Disney World. It’s not just about exchange of knowledge. It’s about people feeling connected.
Yep, the expansively humble Kingsley wants to turn the conservative community of Wellington into a hotbed of connectivity between “LGBTQ” activists and woke cartoon characters.
Cinco de Mayo was ruined at Robert Abbott Middle School in Waukegan, Illinois, the most God-forsaken state in the Midwest. It was ruined by the administration allowing the school’s openly homosexual “administrative assistant” who moonlights as a drag performer, Alfredo Isaac Zires, to sashay through the school in drag with another drag queen. What made the grotesque and inappropriate spectacle even worse was the cheering and applause from children, parents, and staff as the 39-year-old Zires strutted his stuff.
Yes, leftists are transing other people’s children using taxpayer funds. Homosexuals and cross-sex impersonators are using public schools to normalize homosexuality and cross-sex impersonation. Those who freely choose to place sexual deviance at the center of their identity want to transform the moral, social, political, and aesthetic views of minor children while censoring all dissenting views.
To critics of his school drag performance, Zires—whose drag persona is Lola Madison—offered an aggressively defensive retort on Facebook under yet another name, Alfredo Isaac. His retort lacks any regret or shame for violating parental trust and the innocence of children:
IM PROUD TO SAY IM ONE OF THE DRAG QUEENS IN THIS VIDEO! THIS HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH OUR MEXICAN CULTURE AS THERE ARE MANY LGBTQ+ PERSONS THAT ARE OF MEXICAN DESCENT. YOU EVER HEARD OF FRIDA KAHLO THE MEXICAN PAINTER? YEA WELL EDUCATE YOURSELF. SHE’S ONE OF THOSE PERSONS. Y’all so worried about this exposure when the children in general are exposed to much worse. … What we did was share art amongst the future of this wonderful city that I’ve had the privilege of living in practically all my life. Drag is nothing new and what we performed was appropriate for this special occasion. … I mean if we didn’t ruffle any feathers are we even doing drag. You don’t even know history was made before your eyes and we’re not going anywhere. I should prepare for their next event perhaps. … Jesus loves us too!!! Xoxo May the lash be with you. Lola Madison
Drag has “everything to do with” Mexican culture? How so? Since homoerotic acts and cross-dressing are found in every society, they have little to do with Mexican culture per se and everything to do with the fallenness of man. And the fact that many Mexicans—including famous artists—engage in the sin of homosexuality or cross-dressing does not make homosexual acts or cross-dressing worthy of affirmation to children.
Zires admits to wanting to “ruffle feathers” and make history. His performance had nothing to do with Cinco de Mayo, and everything to do with using children for his social and political purposes.
Zires/Madison is right that Jesus loves those whose sin is homoeroticism and cross-dressing. But Jesus does not love homoeroticism and cross-dressing. Jesus loves adulterers, drunks, thieves, gossips, slanderers, zoophiles, and the incestuous. He does not love adultery, drunkenness, thievery, gossip, slander, bestiality or incest. He doesn’t love sin even if sinners affirm sin as central to their identity. Jesus detests sin.
Zires made the foolish and cliché claim that because some children are “exposed to much worse,” no one should worry about him exposing them to drag performances. Is that what the mission of public schools has become? Is the mission of school leaders to expose children to any phenomena that exists as long as it’s not as bad as the worst they many encounter? Many parents assume schools should aspire to expose children to that which is good and true and beautiful—not that which is dark, disordered, and deviant. Should schools mirror and affirm the worst in life or help children know and aspire to the best?
Americans who have been paying attention know that the mission of leftists for government schools is, indeed, dark, disordered, deviant, and scarily presumptuous. They want to appropriate the hearts and minds of other people’s children, especially the children of conservatives.
We’ve learned that schools facilitate “social transitioning” in children who have been groomed to interpret the confusion and discomfort they experience around sexual identity as signs they are “transgender.”
We’ve learned that schools conceal from parents their collaboration with “trans”-cultism.
We’ve learned that Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) standards, comprehensive sex ed, and subject area classes are used to indoctrinate children with leftist assumptions about homosexuality and cross-dressing.
We’ve learned teachers select obscene pro-perversion materials to teach and/or recommend to students—materials that can’t be published in newspapers or read at school board meetings.
We’ve learned that schools allow co-ed restrooms, locker rooms, and sports, thereby eroding modesty and destroying girls’ sports.
We learned that public schools are paying to add tampon machines to all boys’ bathrooms. Remember, symbols matter because symbols teach.
We’ve learned that laws have been passed and task forces created that require leftist beliefs about homoeroticism and cross-sex impersonation to be taught and affirmed to children starting in kindergarten. Leftists want to teach children about the accomplishments of homosexuals and cross-dressers because they understand the immature mind. Leftists understand that associating intelligence, creativity, compassion, or perseverance with sexual deviance will transform young malleable minds. It will lead children to view homosexuality and cross-dressing positively.
We’ve learned that queer adults believe drag performances are suitable entertainment for children of any age.
All this should be shocking, but many conservatives have become the proverbial frogs boiling alive along with their children. And many conservatives—both parents and teachers—who have retained the capacity to be shocked are too cowardly to say or do anything even to protect children. Why teach our children about heroes and martyrs if we have no intention of sacrificing anything even for a cause as critical as this?
And now America’s daft Big Brother is redefining the word “sex” in both Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972 and Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. “Sex,” which had and has a clear unambiguous meaning, will, by executive fiat, be redefined to include “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.”
This is being done to override all state laws that prohibit minors from being guinea pigs in a vast leftwing experiment to trans-sexualize (and profit from) the bodies, minds, and hearts of children. And it’s being done to eradicate sex-based private spaces and destroy girls’ sports. If Biden can’t kill children in the womb, he’ll use schools to harm them grievously:
The Department [of Education] plans to propose to amend its regulations implementing Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, 20 U.S.C. 1681 et seq., consistent with the priorities of the Biden-Harris Administration. These priorities include those set forth in Executive Order 13988 on Preventing and Combating Discrimination on the Basis of Gender Identity or Sexual Orientation and Executive Order 14021 on Guaranteeing an Educational Environment Free from Discrimination on the Basis of Sex, Including Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity.
The amendments to the Department of Education’s regulations regarding the implementation of Title IX are expected to be released any day.
Goodbye single sex restrooms and locker rooms in all schools that receive federal funds. As leftist propaganda on sexuality spreads like flesh-eating bacteria and increasing numbers of children identify as “trans,” “non-binary,” and “gender-fluid,” school bathrooms will be co-ed. I don’t know what schools will do when our troubled youth start identifying as “nullos.” I guess we’ll just have to wait and see.
As Parents Resisted Transgender Push, Teacher Suggested Sending in Child Services
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If Erin Lee had known what her 12-year-old daughter would be exposed to during an afterschool “art club” last May, she would have never allowed her to go.
It began innocently enough. Lee received a text from her daughter asking if she could stay late for an “art club” at Wellington Middle School near Fort Collins, Colorado.
What happened next, though, would change their lives forever.
The “art club” was actually a meeting of the school’s Genders & Sexualities Alliance (GSA) club, a group dedicated to supporting homosexuality, transgenderism, and other nontraditional ideas about gender and sexuality.
When the leader told Amanda (name changed to protect the minor) she must be “queer” if she didn’t feel sexually attracted to anybody, and that she must be “transgender” if she didn’t feel fully comfortable in her own body, the shy little girl suspected something wasn’t right.
According to Amanda, that same leader told her not to tell her parents about what would be discussed that day.
The woman in charge, Kimberly Chambers, who works as a “health equity initiatives coordinator” for Larimer County and director of the pro-LGBT organization SPLASH Youth of Northern Colorado, also handed out her personal contact information to the children and urged them to contact her anytime.
Chambers’ organization has boasted of teaching children ages 12 to 16 about “polyamory”—relationships with multiple sexual partners simultaneously—and other controversial ideas.
During the afterschool GSA club, according to Amanda, Chambers explained to the children that their family homes may not be a “safe space,” but that there were “resources” available. She also handed out transgender flags and stickers that Amanda understood were supposed to represent the children in the club.
As soon as Lee picked up her daughter at school, it was clear that something was “off,” the mother told The Epoch Times in a series of interviews about the incident.
Amanda, looking confused, showed her mother the transgender paraphernalia she had received from Chambers. The transgender flag represented her, Amanda told her mom.
“My heart started racing and my mind blacked out,” Lee recounted. “I was in so much shock that I struggled to get out any words.”
Even though the GSA leader at school had told Amanda it was OK to lie to her parents, Amanda knew better. Over the days that followed, she told her parents everything, Lee said.
Amanda’s parents could hardly believe what they were hearing. Lee, who has described herself as an “ally of the LGBTQ community” and said she has a history of voting “pretty progressively on social issues,” was appalled.
But that would be just the beginning of an ordeal that continues to haunt the family.
The Fallout
Amanda never went back to the school after that. Instead, her parents put her in a local Christian school, even though it meant Lee would have to work nights to afford it. But as Lee and her husband saw it, there was no other choice.
Despite being pulled out of Wellington Middle School, the family’s difficulties grew.
After the lesson, Amanda began to wonder whether she might truly be queer and transgender. Her mental state began to rapidly deteriorate, her mother said.
Multiple family members confirmed that prior to what Lee describes as the “grooming” of her daughter at school, Amanda never showed any signs of “gender dysphoria,” the term used by psychiatrists to describe discomfort with one’s biological sex.
Afterward, though, it was hard for the girl to shake the idea.
Lee and her husband, who was outraged by the ordeal, struggled for months with how to talk to their daughter about what had happened.
“We didn’t want to say something that would push her further into this dark hole or further into this transgender label,” Lee said. “And we did exactly what the trusted adults who indoctrinated her told her we would do. We played right into their narrative.”
Weeks after the incident, as her mental state got worse, the parents decided to take Amanda to a therapist. The therapist also ended up being “queer,” and sought to affirm the young girl’s confusion about her gender.
By December, between the COVID isolation and the questions surrounding her gender, Amanda’s mental state was spiraling downward, Lee said.
The pediatrician immediately prescribed powerful psychotropic drugs for depression—medications that she has since been weaned from—in an attempt to deal with the crisis.
“I don’t know if that fear will ever go away,” Lee said about her own concerns. “I don’t expect to ever stop being struck with sadness about what happened.”
Fighting Back
The more she thought about the whole ordeal, the more Lee realized she had to do something.
First, she contacted Chambers, the woman who Lee says “groomed” her daughter and who also sometimes works as a substitute teacher for the district. “Her response was alarming,” Lee said. “It was delusional. She doubled down on her actions.”
Next she contacted the principal, who seemed empathetic but confirmed that secret GSA meetings with children were an intentional part of creating a “safe space” at school.
There are more than two dozen self-proclaimed LGBTQ children in the small middle school, according to social media posts by SPLASH. And the district is determined that they be “affirmed” without parental involvement, Lee said.
After all that, Lee spoke out at a school board meeting and contacted all its members by email. None responded. When she was finally able to sit down with two of them, they both “supported everything that transpired and refused to address any of my concerns.”
Finally, exasperated and realizing her first call would have been to the police if this had occurred on a playground or any other setting, Lee contacted the sheriff’s office.
While law enforcement was deeply sympathetic to her plight, and urged her to speak out loudly, there was nothing they could do from a legal perspective, Lee said.
District officials, meanwhile, saw nothing wrong with what had occurred, Lee said. Indeed, some expressed shock that a parent would be upset over the incident.
As Lee fought back, school officials were working on their next move.
Among other tactics, documents and communications obtained by The Epoch Times revealed a discussion about the possibility of reporting the parents to child-welfare authorities.
When Chambers was informed by the art teacher that Amanda’s parents had not been sending her to school since the incident, Chambers wrote back urging her to consider filing a report and have child-protection officials visit the home.
“If that persists, you’ll want to talk to admin about doing a well-child check or whatever is within the policies of the school,” Chambers wrote, describing upset parents as “barriers” and citing an “extreme case” in which a family did not allow their transgender child to leave the home unsupervised.
Lee was flabbergasted after receiving the documents.
“I knew this woman was evil, but I didn’t see this coming,” she said. “This teacher and Kimberly [Chambers] forced us to pull our child out of school by creating an unsafe environment, then discussed sending CPS into our home because we pulled her out, at our most vulnerable moment as a family—that they caused.”
“If my child had indicated that we were not affirming her pronouns and trans identity, I believe the authorities would’ve taken our child away,” Lee added. “And everyone involved knew this.”
District and LGBT Activists Respond
The Epoch Times reached out to Chambers for comment, asking whether she considered non-affirmation of a child’s gender ideas to be abuse and seeking confirmation about the story details.
“Given the private nature of this specific youth and family’s needs, I’d like to share with you a couple of Colorado and National resources around gender identity to help inform your article rather than provide any comment,” she said before providing a number of links on transgenderism and legal issues.
Wellington Middle School referred inquiries to the district. A message left on the principal’s phone was not immediately returned.
Poudre School District Executive Director of Communications Madeline Noblett told The Epoch Times that the district couldn’t comment on “specific student matters.”
When asked about policies on getting child protection services involved in cases such as Amanda’s, Noblett noted that all district staff are “mandated reporters” under Colorado law. That means they are required to report suspected child abuse.
Noblett didn’t respond to follow-up questions about district policy on whether parents’ refusal to support their children transitioning to a new gender constitutes abuse.
“It is the role of the Department of Human Services to investigate the suspected/reported case; to determine whether the child is safe; to determine if abuse occurred; and to provide appropriate services to the family,” she said.
However, the district aims to “create and uphold equitable, inclusive, and rigorous educational opportunities, outcomes, and experiences for all students,” she said.
“As a district, we are committed to making our schools safe spaces in which all students can learn,” Noblett said, adding that the district has “a LGBTQIA+ coordinator who works to advance the resources, support, inclusion, and advocacy of LGBTQIA+ students, staff, and families.”
“Gay Straight Alliances were established as safe spaces for members of the LGBTQIA+ community, allies, and any individual to come together with the goals of ensuring inclusivity, safety, and support,” Noblett said.
When asked how GSA adult leaders were trained, the communications director said there were no training requirements to lead any club in the district. However, GSA leaders could use resources from the GSA network and from One Colorado, the network’s state affiliate.
Gillian Ford of One Colorado didn’t specifically address questions about how GSA adult leaders are trained, whether it’s standard practice to tell children not to talk to their parents about these issues, or whether the escalating parental outrage was appropriate.
“Schools are often places where LGBTQ+ young people don’t feel safe or included,” said Ford, whose pronouns are listed as “she, her, hers” in her email signature.
“Since 2011, One Colorado has worked with both statewide education associations, as well as local educators, parents, and students to create and sustain the Colorado Gender and Sexuality Alliance (GSA) Network to support and empower LGBTQ+ young people and their allies against the bullying, harassment, homophobia, and transphobia in their schools.”
National and State Trends
What happened to the Lee family in Northern Colorado is hardly an isolated incident, experts told The Epoch Times.
“At first, we wanted to believe it was an isolated incident,” Lee said. “We didn’t want to believe that there could be such evil in our public school system, in our local government, in our community.”
What happened to Lee’s family is part of an accelerating national trend. Numerous European nations are witnessing similar phenomena.
The Epoch Times spoke with other families across the nation who had similar experiences, but almost none were willing to go on record due to fears of retaliation by government officials and activists.
While the American College of Pediatricians describes teaching children that it’s normal or healthy to impersonate the opposite sex as “child abuse,” larger and more established associations have taken a different approach.
A new “puberty guide” for children between 9 and 12 published by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) claims that boys can menstruate and that girls can experience erections.
“Most babies who are born with a penis grow up feeling like a boy on the inside too. That’s called being cisgender (cis- means ‘same’),” the guide states. “But there are some babies born with a penis who grow up feeling like a girl on the inside. That’s called being transgender (trans- means ‘cross’ or ‘opposite’).”
Other surveys show even higher numbers. One from UCLA found over one-fourth of California teens were viewed by peers as “gender non-conforming.”
Those numbers are rising rapidly.
Pam Benigno, director of the Education Policy Center at Colorado’s free-market think tank the Independence Institute, told The Epoch Times that she has heard numerous “disturbing stories” from parents across the state about their children coming home from school confused about their gender.
“I spoke with a dad who told me that without his knowledge, staff from his daughter’s middle school drafted a transition plan for his daughter to become a male,” Benigno said. “This is not uncommon. In fact, teachers have been ordered not to tell parents if students take on a new identity while at school.”
Districts across the state, under the guise of being “inclusive,” are “pushing a radical-left agenda on children” and have even “adopted the non-scientific theory that gender identity is fluid,” she said.
This includes hiring “queer” organizations to smash traditional notions of normalcy in the minds of students, she added.
A recently published paper by The Independence Institute aims at helping parents ensure transparency in school curricula. But parents must be vigilant and protect their children from “devastating emotional and sometimes physical harm,” Benigno said.
Conservative states are no exception to the trend. In Utah, state controlled-substance data revealed a 10,000 percent increase between 2015 and 2020 in the number of minor girls undergoing medical transitions.
In Ludlow, Massachusetts, a major lawsuit by parents against the school district is alleging that education officials encouraged children to experiment with alternate gender identities and hide it from their parents.
Andrew Beckwith, president of the Massachusetts Family Institute who is involved in the case, is dealing with a surge in such cases in his state.
“We see the same aggressive attack on the integrity of the parent-child relationship here in Massachusetts,” he replied when asked about parallels between Lee’s story and what’s taking place there.
“Many of the LGBTQ activists want to brand traditional sexual morality as ‘child abuse,’ and their accomplices in child services terrorize families who won’t just go along with this agenda,” he said, calling these sorts of policies an “appalling and dangerous violation of the rights of parents.”
“What is happening in Ludlow is part of a larger national agenda to deliberately circumvent the authority of parents over the mental health and religious beliefs of their children,” Beckwith said. “School officials around the country are secretly affirming, or even promoting, discordant gender identities in young children.”
The Biden administration has started threatening legal action against local communities, schools, states, and other institutions that don’t submit to the transgender agenda.
Warning to Parents
As a result of the ordeal, Lee has lost all trust in the media, the government, the medical profession, and the public school system.
“Now I don’t trust a single person in the public school system,” she told The Epoch Times. “Not a single one.”
Lee said she has been in contact with numerous attorneys about the case as she considers her legal options. She is still seeking counsel.
Today, Amanda is doing much better, her parents say.
But in an effort to help protect other families from similar situations, the family has decided to continue sounding the alarm while encouraging parents to become more aware and get more involved.
Among other suggestions, Lee is also urging parents to remove their children from public school.
“Get them into private schools if you can afford it,” she said. “Get them into homeschool co-ops or homeschool them yourself.”
This article was originally published by The Epoch Times.
It’s All Downhill When Fetish Becomes Identity
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You know that notorious slippery slope that sexual anarchists mockingly dismiss as a figment of conservatives’ hysterical imaginations? Surely, you remember when conservatives argued that public approval of homoeroticism would lead ineluctably to public approval of other forms of sexual deviance. Well, here we are slip-slidin’ down that phantasmagorical slope all greased up with deviant sexuality.
“Trans”-cultism is ubiquitous, poisoning our professional medical and mental health communities; our public libraries; our schools, and children’s bodies.
Public school teachers in metaphorical trench coats eye five-year-old children with bad intent and throw hissy fits if they can’t teach children that sodomy is making America great.
Polyamory—known euphemistically as “consensual non-monogamy”—is spreading like gangrene on the necrotic tissues of a dying marriage ethos.
Sensing the softened ground, seeded and watered by boundary-free sexual libertines, creeps who feast on the flesh of minors and call it “intergenerational love” or “Minor Attraction,” are poking their ugly heads up in dark alleys, TED Talks, and cartoons. Diverse incarnations of “Minor Attraction,” including pedophilia (sexual attraction to pre-pubescent children), hebephilia (sexual attraction to pubescent children ages 11-14), and ephebophilia (sexual attraction to mid to late adolescents, ages 15-19), will be showing up more and more, just as hebephilia did in the original version of The Vagina Monologues.
Incest is not far behind. What’s my evidence, you ask? My evidence is that the left has given it a name: “Genetic Sexual Attraction.” For now, this phenomenon is defined as a strong sexual attraction between relatives who meet for the first time as adults, but how long will it be before relatives raised together will start ruminating on whether they would like to have sex with their siblings or parents? Remember, “love is love,” and ideas have consequences.
And the next nightmare we see on our careering hurtle down the slope is bestiality, renamed “zoophilia” and “zoosexuality.” Kathy Rudy, Duke University Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies authored a scholarly essay titled “LGBTQ … Z,” for which she provides this abstract:
In this essay, I draw the discourses around bestiality/zoophilia into the realm of queer theory in order to point to a new form of animal advocacy, something that might be called, in shorthand, loving animals. My argument is quite simple: if all interdicts against bestiality depend on a firm notion of exactly what sex is (and they do), and if queer theory disrupts that firm foundation by arguing that sexuality is impossible to define beforehand and pervades many different kinds of relations (and it does), then viewing bestiality in the frame of queer theory can give us another way to conceptualize the limitations of human exceptionalism.
In a trenchant critique of the dangerous ideas of Rudy, Dr. Devin Jane Buckley, points out that Rudy “seems uncertain as to whether she is sexually attracted to her own dogs.”
Rudy writes,
Queer theory has schooled me in ways that make the question of what counts as sex seem rather unintelligible. How do we cordon off sexual desire from all the other desires that move our lives? What does sex mean? Do I think I’m having sex with my dogs when they kiss my face? How do we know beforehand what sex is?
Leftists no longer know how to define “woman” or “sex.” And these are the people who want to teach the nation’s children about sexuality.
Rudy explains how queer theory has advanced social acceptance of bestiality:
Put differently, both animal rights and psychosocial perspectives [which view desire for animals as mental illness] do not believe that borders can be crossed. Queer theory, on the other hand, tells us that few of us have stable identities anymore, that borders are always crossed. We’re all changing, shifting, splitting ourselves up this way and that. It labels these processes ‘hailing,’ ‘suturing,’ and ‘interpolation’; where once we saw ourselves affiliated in one way, a new interpretive community emerges to capture our passions and move us differently. I am asking the reader to entertain the possibility that the same kinds of shifts and disruptions happen with categories like ‘human,’ ‘rabbit,’ ‘ape,’ or ‘dog.’
There you have it: bestiality, the new transgressive identity slowly emerging from the slimy goo pooling at the bottom of the fictitious slope.
Alexis Tsoulis-Reay, writer for New York Magazine’s The Cut, has twice written about a married man who has a “zoosexual” relationship with his horse. Her first article was “What’s it Like to Date a Horse?” In her follow-up article, “About That Interview I Did with a Zoophile,” just published a month ago, Tsoulis-Reay described her anger when a friend characterized the man into bestiality as having a “horse fetish”:
When one of my friends, an attorney who is married and straight, asked me how my “horse fetish” reporting was going, my first thought was, STFU, you normative bitch! I was genuinely annoyed that she’d described his entire sexual identity as a kink. “It’s a sexuality, not a fetish!” I earnestly texted back to her in all caps.
Leftists invented the idea of “authentic identity,” conflating all phenomena that are associated with or affirmed by an individual as integral parts of authentic identity and beyond moral judgment. Fetishes will become “authentic identities.” Moral disapproval of fetishistic “identities” will become hate speech. Fetishistic “identities” will develop political lobbies that will insist that their fetishes are “sexual orientations,” and voilà, fetishes will become protected under existing anti-discrimination laws.
Here are two of the leftist claims that applied consistently helped create the non-fallacious slippery slope:
1.) Marriage has no inherent connection to either sexual differentiation or reproductive potential, thereby nullifying the requirement that marriage be limited to two people or to people not closely related by blood.
2.) “Love is love,” thereby nullifying any restrictions, taboos, or prohibitions related to erotic relationships. If love is love, then who’s to say the love between adult siblings or men and horses is wrong. Some leftists argue that it’s wrong to have sex with animals because animals can’t consent. But that hardly seems a rational justification for prohibiting sex with, for example, cows since cows can’t consent to be caged, owned, branded, or eaten, which seem far more onerous than being sexually penetrated, and humans perform all of those acts.
While conservatives have been gullibly playing Candyland, sexual anarchists have been playing chess. Sexual anarchists have strategy; conservatives have strategery. The strategery of Christians in America is notable for its lack of discernment, lack of spine, and a bloated desire to be both in and of the world. Pallid, neutered “niceness,” severed from an understanding of sin has supplanted the love of Christ.
The slippery slope exists all right, but it’s not surprising that the “love is love” crowd can’t see it.
It looks like the theological degeneration of Wheaton College continues apace. On April 27, 2022, Wheaton College held a speaking event at which visiting scholar Professor Jayachitra Lalitha, associate professor of New Testament at Tamilnadu Theological Seminary in Madurai, South India and dean of the women’s studies department, discussed the arcane topic and subject of the book she is writing, “Mary Magdalene, the Ascetic Mystic: Gender Sexuality Conundrums.”
Here are two descriptions of Lalitha’s work provided by hosts of other events where she has spoken:
“Rev. Dr. Lalitha Jayachitra [sic]presented on Gender & Sexuality to highlight the variety of genders that are scientifically proved and pointed out that as a church we have not even begun to grapple with this variety.”
“On September 30th, 2020, CASA India organized a webinar on ‘Understanding Gender Diversity’. … Rev. Dr. Jayachitra Lalita [sic] shared an introduction to understanding gender diversity, identities, and non-binary genders. She explained there are 28 types of identity for gender, other than binary identity.”
In an INFEMIT podcast, Lalitha discusses “decolonized retelling of Biblical and historical narratives, postcolonial feminist perspectives, and intersectional theology.”
Perhaps Lalitha intellectually shredded decolonized retelling of biblical narratives, postcolonial feminist perspectives, and intersectional theology, but if she affirms the existence of 28 “gender identities,” I doubt she did.
The visiting scholar program that brought Lalitha to Wheaton is named after the theologically orthodox theologian and leader in the evangelical movement John Stott:
The John Stott Visiting International Scholar/Artist/Practitioner in Human Needs & Global Resources provides an opportunity for individuals directly involved in addressing the wide array of human needs to spend approximately 1-4 months during the academic year (August-May) at Wheaton College, for the purpose of interacting with the campus community in both formal and informal ways over the course of her or his stay. Departments are invited to nominate scholars, artists, and practitioners from any discipline.
I wonder what John Stott would say about Wheaton using his name for this.
Some Wheaton trustees or wealthy donors should find out who exactly nominated Lalitha to be a visiting scholar (then let me know). And parents who are considering spending big bucks to send their children to Wheaton may want to consider other options.
“Woe to those who call evil good and good evil,
who put darkness for light and light for darkness,
who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.” ~Isaiah 5:20
Informed people know that Christians are persecuted around the world, but too few acknowledge the growing persecution of Christians in Canada and the United States. This is not to suggest that the persecution faced by Christians in North America is equivalent to the severe persecution Christians face in countries like China, Afghanistan, and North Korea. Christians in North America, especially American Christians, are blessed to be living in country where we are yet able to exercise our religion relatively freely. However, there are red flags in America and other formerly Christian-friendly countries. While the United States was founded by those with a biblical worldview, recent events have shown that those in power wish to change that.
Some on the left and right dismiss the idea that Christians are persecuted in America as laughable, asserting that Christians are a privileged and protected class. While this may have been true throughout much of our history, it is not the case anymore.
Recently, White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki commented on lawmakers in Alabama who have been valiantly working to protect kids from barbaric transgender surgeries and hormone therapies. In a press briefing, Psaki said, “Alabama’s lawmakers and other legislators who are contemplating these … discriminatory bills have been put on notice by the Department of Justice.”
This threat from a purportedly unbiased DOJ should be alarming. Not only is Biden’s DOJ supporting the mutilation of young children’s bodies, but it is also actively attempting to make it a crime to protect children from these irreversible acts. If anything, it should be a crime to chemically castrate children or mutilate their bodies.
The Canadian government has been enacting legislation that supports sexual deviance and oppresses Christians. Bill C-4 bans any form of conversion therapy throughout all of Canada. This law may sound good to some people because, when people hear the phrase “conversion therapy,” they think of aversion therapy, or non-existent lock-down camps where kids are allegedly sent to be converted. That’s not the purpose of Bill C-4, though.
Bill C-4 bans all counseling efforts that would help someone understand the cause/s of their same-sex attraction or help them align their sexual identity with their religious faith. Both Bill C-4 and Jen Psaki aim to quash any opposition to the LGBTQ agenda–an agenda antithetical to Christianity.
In addition, our government schools are Exhibit A in how the government opposes Christian values. Many public schools teach children that the “LGBTQ” movement is noble, while Christians see it as sinful. For that, Christians are deemed hateful bigots. The government is clearly taking a stance on this sensitive topic, and that stance is firmly anti-Christian.
The United States is not as oppressive as Canada, but there are disturbing trends on the American horizon. Christians should become politically involved to preserve the blessings of the First Amendment and be good stewards of our right to govern ourselves.
Tomorrow Schools Promote Sexual Disorderedness (and Racism)
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Spring is here and the purportedly silenced “LGBTQQAP” students are once again hijacking instructional time in middle and high schools for their political stunt called the Day of Silence (DOS), which this year takes place tomorrow, April 22, 2022. On this day, students are urged to refuse to speak all day, including during instructional time.
This political protest was created by two students at the University of Virginia in 1996. In 2002, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) took over the Day of Silence. GLSEN continues to call this a “student-led” event even though GLSEN provides instructions to students and teachers as well as sells t-shirts, temporary tattoos, bookmarks, pins, pronoun buttons, lanyards, “zines,” “LGBTQ” history cards, stickers, masks, and “I [heart] Inclusive Schools” composition books. You name it, they sell it—well, except truth.
As anyone who has been in a classroom in the last 30-40 years knows, teachers rarely lecture. Lecturing—or direct instruction—has largely been abandoned. Classroom participation in the form of discussions and activities has replaced lectures. Therefore, student refusal to speak disrupts normal instructional time. GLSEN organizers of DOS and participants in it seek to disrupt the day in order to promote their views of homosexuality and cross-sex passing. They are exploiting taxpayer-funded schools for their ideological, social, and political purposes.
GLSEN’s sole raison d’être is to use publicly funded schools to normalize homosexuality and cross-sex identification, which is decidedly not the business of public schools. Normalizing homosexuality and cross-sex identification requires first determining that homosexual acts and cross-dressing, cross-sex hormone doping, and surgical mutilations are moral acts. And government employees have no pedagogical or ethical right to impose their moral beliefs on other people’s children.
But some schools don’t understand that. They believe their boundaries as teachers and administrators are wherever they want to draw them. For example, Adrian Harries, Illinois District 300’s Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, sent an email to all parents and guardians of middle and high school students to inform them that the district will be going whole hog on DOS:
[W]e plan to support all of our schools and students in their observance of the Day of Silence on April 22, 2022.
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This year, District 300 administration will support our schools in observing the Day of Silence by providing each school with a Day of Silence kit that includes; [sic] Pride masks, pride stickers, and a pride flag. These resources will be issued to students interested in serving as allies to members of the LGBTQ community. We will also provide each of our schools with a digital version of the GLSEN Pride Safety Kit, which includes resources and lesson plans for teachers and staff who choose to honor the Day of Silence by conducting lessons that require minimal or no discussion.
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District 300 is proud to stand in solidarity with members of the LGBTQ+ community, and we hope that our students show their support during the Day of Silence.
What exactly do his instructions imply to students who don’t want a mask, sticker or flag because they believe homosexual acts and cross-sex identification harm individuals temporally and eternally? Are they not “allies” unless they affirm something they believe harms their friends?
Adrian Harries comes to District 300, which is headquartered in Algonquin and serves students in multiple communities, from a controversial tenure as principal at Nichols Middle School in Evanston, Illinois where in November 2017, he held racially segregated “equity” meetings, instructing his staff as follows:
[O]ur affinity groups will be based around racial identification, with one of our two groups consisting of staff that identify as individuals of color and our other group consisting of those that identify as White. Race is a lived experience so you should attend the group that best represents how you feel you live your life, racially.
While the last sentence sounds absurd to many, including those who criticized Rachel Dolezal, the white woman who lived her life racially as a black woman, I guess to those who believe men be women, whites can be black.
But I thought we did away with “passing” and institutional racism like separate drinking fountains decades ago.
Ironically, Harries mandated that District 300 teachers not discuss the Kyle Rittenhouse acquittal when staff and students returned to school after Thanksgiving break in 2021, saying,
[W]e believe that these cases often tip-toe [sic] political values and views, and it is difficult for a person to avoid presenting the perusal [sic] biases in such a discussion.
While Harries claims to care about avoiding classroom discussions that may include political biases regarding the Rittenhouse case, he has no such concerns about encouraging the entire staff and student body to support the DOS, which necessarily includes political, moral, and religious biases.
In his instructions to District 300 faculty about the Rittenhouse case, Harries also made this surprising statement:
Unfortunately, due to the holiday season, our children will be without support while grappling with the ideals of fairness, self-worth, and American values on humanity that the case evokes.
Since one would think elementary, middle, and high school students would have the support of their parents or guardians over the holiday season to help them grapple “with the ideals of fairness, self-worth, and American values on humanity,” to whom was Harries referring? Whose support would the children lack?
Apparently, he was referring to teachers and counselors in District 300 schools. And this reveals the presumptuousness of leftist “educators” in public schools who believe it is both their right and obligation to butt into the emotional lives of other people’s children. They believe it is their right and obligation to shape the values and feelings of students they were hired to teach English, science, math, and world languages.
In years past, GLSEN claimed the DOS was intended to draw attention to the “silenced voices” of “LGBT” students, but since cacophonous “LGBT” students now wail continually, GLSEN has changed its public message. Now GLSEN says, students refuse to speak in class in order to “protest the harmful effects of harassment and discrimination of LGBTQ people in schools.”
Presumably, both GLSEN and DOS participants know that in many schools it’s now cool to be “queer” or “trans” and uncool to be conservative. Surely, those students and staff are aware that conservative students, particularly theologically orthodox Christians, are the students whom it’s okay to mock. The beliefs that derive from their authentic identity as Christ-followers are scorned, and the kids are vilified as haters, bigots, and “transphobes” if they don’t want to use incorrect pronouns or share locker rooms with opposite-sex peers.
The Day of Silence is yet one more reason we can dump on top of the heaping pile of reasons for conservatives to get their kids out of public schools pronto. And I hope parents of District 300 students contact their schools to object to both the Day of Silence and to the money wasted for a Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.
“The Mind Polluters” Coming to Barrington and Channahon
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A powerful investigative documentary film about the graphic Comprehensive Sex Ed and Social Emotional Learning being forced on children of all ages through the public education system will be shown at three locations.
The Mind Polluters exposes the dark realities of the intentional grooming of children into a worldview at odds with the Christian faith, a worldview of rampant sexuality, homosexuality, and transgenderism normalized through the use of pornographic and pedophilic materials.
“The Mind Polluters” is a feature length investigative documentary film that follows the efforts of grass roots volunteers, legislators and Christian academics exposing the efforts of corrupt organizations and groups infiltrating the nation’s school systems with pornographic and pedo-sadist (pedophilia) materials. The film not only shows the brutal battle being waged right now to force both public and private school systems to indoctrinate children as young as pre-school age with materials so heinous that they are illegal everywhere else except in the classroom, it also explores the history of the pornography battle in the United States for the past 75 years.
This documentary is a must-see for pastors, Christian grandparents, parents of school-age children, and Christian couples who plan to have children.
If you, or someone you know, needs convincing that there is intentional indoctrination and grooming of children taking place in government schools, you must see this documentary. Ironically, the material being presented in this documentary is not suitable for children, even though it’s what they are being exposed to in most government schools.
On April 7, 2022, Florida preschool teacher, 28-year-old Lois Schwartz, boasted about teaching her students that she is neither a boy nor a girl and that she’s a polyamorous, pagan witch.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1512208604421496832
“Eli” Dinh, formerly Molly, a kindergarten teacher at the private Hillbrook School in California, uses a pronoun game to inculcate five-year-olds with her arguable, self-serving gender theories. On Instagram she goes by @okayenby, with “enby,” standing for nonbinary. She expects others to refer to her by the third-person plural pronouns “they” and “them.” Dinh is a woman who gave birth and breastfed two children before she decided that her authentic identity was male. Then she started doping testosterone, hired a quack surgeon to lop off her breasts, and changed her name from Molly to Eli. Dinh’s favorite curricular components are, not surprisingly, social and emotional learning and anti-bias education—for kindergartners. Private schools may teach whatever destructive nonsense they want, but Dinh is the cold, sharp tip of a colossal iceberg that is plowing through government schools as well.
Brooke Charter School first-grade teacher “Ray Skyer,” a bearded woman who pretends to be a man, told K-2 students this hogwash during a zoom class:
Something that’s really cool and unique about me is that I’m transgender. We touched on that earlier this week in the book that Ms. Hammond read, but I’m going to give you my explanation about what it means to be transgender.
So, when babies are born, the doctor looks and makes a guess on whether the baby is a boy or girl based on what that baby looks like. Most of the time, that guess is 100 percent correct. … But sometimes the doctor is wrong. The doctor makes an incorrect guess. When the doctor makes a correct guess, that’s when a person is called cisgender. When a doctor’s guess is wrong, that’s when they are transgender.
So, I’m a man, but when I was baby, the doctors told my parents that I was a girl. … Until I was 18 years old, everyone thought I was a girl. This was super, super uncomfortable for me because I knew that wasn’t right. … So, when I was 18, I told my family and friends that I’m really a boy, and it was like this huge weight had been lifted off of my shoulders, and I had the freedom to be who I truly am.
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This short video teaches parents everything they need to know about morally and intellectually unmoored activists who self-identify as teachers working in schools. First, they propagandize in many ways, including through literature, direct instruction, and demagoguery.
Second, they propagate highly controversial beliefs without telling young students that the “explanations” are controversial, disputed, faith-based, and devoid of scientific support. Doctors don’t “guess” whether babies are boys or girls. They identify the sex of babies. Skyer was correctly identified as the girl she is and ever more will be. Her mother’s obstetrician did not guess, and he or she was not wrong. At 18, Skyer decided to start masquerading as a man.
Skyer did not merely explain. She manipulated the emotions of young innocent children who would not want anyone—especially a teacher they know and like—to feel “super, super uncomfortable.” So, in addition to feeding them fantastical fiction in the guise of objective truth, Skyer is trying to make children feel predisposed to sex-masquerades.
Indefensible ideological grooming of children by leftists is not limited to the United States. Australian Member of Parliament Bernie Finn shared an assignment given to 10-year-old boys and girls in a school in the district he represents. Children were instructed to discuss their father’s erections and ejaculations with their fathers. It should go without saying that at no age should a child be asked to discuss with their fathers their erections and ejaculations. But we are forced to say such things now because purportedly “civilized” societies no longer experience righteous anger at evil being promoted as good to children in school. How long before “civilized” societies no longer find father-daughter personal orgasm discussions objectionable?
Conservative Americans seem—to borrow a British term—gobsmacked by the trans-volution sweeping our formerly rational society. I am gobsmacked by their astonishment. The trans-volution has been slowly emerging like a parasitic guinea worm from the homo-volution which was birthed by the Boomer’s sexual revolution. I first warned about the emerging trans-volution in late 2008 when I wrote about “bisexual” Anglican priest Laurel Dykstra who has twins via a sperm donor. Dyskstra wrote an article in 2005 on how to make preschools “trans-friendly.” Here were her explanations and recommendations:
She said that the “gender binary system. … is harmful to everyone.”
She moralized that “It is not enough for classrooms, teachers, and schools to be ‘open’ or ‘non-judgmental’; they need to be actively trans-positive.”
Dykstra recommended that when talking to preschoolers, teachers should say things like “‘Well, most men have penises, but some don’t,’” and “‘Some girls grow up to be men.’”
She urged teachers to “Encourage kids to question their assumptions. ‘How do you know that that person is a woman? Could a man wear a dress?’”
She instructed teachers to “Call children by the name and the pronouns they choose.”
She recommended accessorizing classrooms with a “Tranny Teddy. Have a non-gendered toy/doll/puppet…. Do not use pronouns and give this creature a variety of gendered clothing, such as a skirt and tie. If asked, say ‘Oh, Binker isn’t a boy or a girl.’”
She suggested having a “Butch/Femme Day. Why not teach kids language like butch/femme, as an alternative to boy/girl or male/female? You could have dress-up days to play deliberately with gender, like ‘Fabulous and Fearless Day’ or ‘Capable and Campy.’”
She encouraged teachers to “Invite a drag performer or transsexual person who would be willing to share their story and a photo album.”
When reading picture books to preschoolers, Dykstra recommended “switching pronouns, avoiding them altogether, or using alternative pronouns.”
Dykstra rationalized using deceit in the face of parental opposition: “For ‘stealth practitioners’ (i.e., teachers in a transphobic setting), these classroom suggestions can be implemented without fanfare to create a more just and welcoming classroom.”
Dykstra offered these suggestions 17 years ago, and I issued warnings 14 years ago. Increasing numbers of warnings have been issued across the nation by men and women who have been paying attention. The ignorance and sloth of conservatives—including church leaders—in addressing the evil in the midst of our schools is inexcusable.
If Americans had been paying attention to warnings about the perverse shape of things to come, maybe the disaster we see unfolding in schools could have been stopped, thereby preventing the incalculable damage being done to children. But confronting socially acceptable evil requires not just awareness but courage, perseverance, and a willingness to suffer for the neighbors we love.
“To infinity and beyond!” In November of 1995, the first of four blockbuster animated films in the Toy Story franchise was released by Walt Disney Pictures to both audience and critical acclaim. With Toy Story, astute businesspeople at the Walt Disney Company created a cash-cow franchise capable of producing revenue for years to come by creating and delivering a product that appealed to their target audience of parents and children. Unfortunately, the Walt Disney Company’s leap from a business focused on producing broadly appealing content to a business exemplifying the latest version of woke corporate activism, redefining the nature and use of a company’s products, has taken the company to the height of stupidity and beyond.
Disney is a long-time part of the landscape, literally and figuratively, in the state of Florida. The company’s 2020 annual report indicates that of Disney’s 203,000 global employees, nearly 40% are in the state of Florida; and a small but vocal minority of those Florida cast-members are not happy.
On March 28, 2022, Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed House Bill (HB) 1557, Parental Rights in Education. According to the governor’s website, the bill, “reenforces parents’ fundamental rights to make decisions regarding the upbringing of their children.” The bill also, “prohibits classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity in kindergarten through 3rd grade and prohibits instruction that is not age appropriate for students.” The Walt Disney Company disagrees.
Let that sink in.
Disney, a company whose legacy was built on producing entertainment for parents and their children, disagrees. After a small group of employees threw a tantrum normally akin to an exhausted six-year-old waiting in line for a turn to ride Dumbo the Flying Elephant, Disney’s CEO Bob Chapek surrendered. The company issued a statement on Twitter stating, “Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in the courts.”
While the drift of companies towards activism in social causes is not new, Disney’s stated goal for this piece of legislation not only runs counter to what should be the goal of any publicly traded business—i.e., to create value for its shareholders—but crosses a line into territory that runs counter to rational business thought.
Organizations like Coca-Cola, Delta Airlines, Meta, and Major League Baseball have all taken public stances on social issues. These stances have alienated wide segments of their customers based solely on differences in political viewpoint. Through it all, the products or services of these companies remained neutral. The ingredients of Coca-Cola were not altered in an effort to promote the company’s social agenda. In Disney’s case, however, its stance on the Florida bill has the potential to alienate many of the organization’s core customers (parents) precisely because the product will no longer be neutral. Vocal Disney employees indicated in leaked internal meeting videos that the portrayal of Disney characters in television and film will be a vehicle for the promotion of LGBTQ+ lifestyles and identities. In other words, Disney’s products will no longer be neutral but will be directed to serve a social agenda.
Disney’s activism is a bridge too far even in the current day of woke corporations. Making donations to activist groups or voicing support for social justice or climate change is one thing, but using platforms designed to provide entertainment for children—children—to promote alternative lifestyles is a new layer of the woke stratosphere.
What are the potential consequences? Maybe nothing. But maybe a substantial number of parents will see Disney’s actions for what they are, an attempt to supplant parental control over what values are taught to their children and by whom. Maybe the forces of the free market will spring into action and new entertainment options will emerge to fill the market void left by Disney. And maybe, like Buzz Lightyear who mistakenly believed his wings would carry him to infinity and beyond, Disney will realize that forcing extremist values and ideals upon its customers simply will not fly.
This article was originally published at The Institute for Faith & Freedom at Grove City College, where Dr. Richard D. Kocur is an assistant professor of business. Dr. Kocur specializes in marketing and business strategy and has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare industry.
Biden the Unity President Divides Again
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Recently, America’s foolish president issued a foolish Transgender Day of Visibility Proclamation in which he pledged support for a bill that will jeopardize First Amendment religious free exercise and speech protections for conservative Americans. In his Proclamation, Biden also called for all Americans to adopt his controversial beliefs on cross-sex impersonation. Once again Biden—the self-identifying unity president—has intensified division.
Ordinary Americans—as opposed to those who make millions by selling political influence—fret about how they will pay for groceries and gas. They worry about fentanyl and criminals pouring over the southern border and about illegal immigrants being dumped by the government in their cities in the dark of night.
What keeps Joe Biden awake in the afternoon? Does he worry about the 56,000 synthetic opioid—mostly fentanyl—deaths in 2020? Or about the 900,000 humans killed in the womb annually? Do the 21,000 murders in 2020 cause him sleepless afternoons? Not so much. It appears from his Proclamation that what troubles Biden is what he calls “the epidemic of violence” against cross-dressers. That would be about 50 people killed in 2021, many of whom were victims of domestic violence—not anti-“trans” hate crimes. While every murder is a tragedy, 50 deaths does not an epidemic of violence make.
The name “Transgender Day of Visibility,” is intended to convey the fiction that on all other days, cross-sex impersonators are invisible. This, my friends, is what is called “gaslighting.” As Chastity “Chaz” Bono, Jaron Bloshinksy (“Jazz Jennings”), Roderick “LaVerne” Cox, Bruce “Caitlyn” Jenner, Richard “Rachel” Levine, Bradley “Chelsea” Manning, Ellen “Elliot” Page, Gavin “Laurel” Hubbard, William “Lia” Thomas, Larry “Lana” Wachowski, Andy “Lilly” Wachowski, and scores of drag queens and teens masquerade as the sex they aren’t, invading bathrooms where they don’t belong, leftists claim “transgender” persons are invisible.
In his Royal Proclamation last week, Biden declared his enthusiastic support for the ruinous anti-constitutional Equality Act. The Equality Act has nothing to do with equality and everything to do with advancing the alchemical superstition about the alleged ability of humans to become the opposite sex through desire, cross-dressing, hormone-doping, and mutilating cosmetic surgery.
In order to accomplish the end goal of eradicating all public recognition of sex differences, “trans”-cultists must eradicate the ability of free people to speak freely their beliefs about “gender” and sex.
Lawmakers in thrall to or terrified by the “trans”-cult stripped the Equality Act of religious protections. Numerous legal scholars have warned that the passage of the Equality Act poses the most significant threat to constitutional protections of the free exercise of religion ever in America’s history.
Mary Hasson, graduate of Notre Dame Law School and fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., testified about this threat at a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:
The Equality Act threatens serious harm to religious believers and religious organizations. … The Equality Act attacks First Amendment rights as well, inserting language that attempts to tip the scales against believers if they assert claims under the First Amendment or Equal Protection.
The Equality Act … expand[s] “public accommodations” to permit discrimination claims wherever Americans “gather,” even virtually. The result? Churches, synagogues, temples, faith-based schools, soup kitchens, and shelters for battered women will be subject to government coercion pressuring them to compromise their religious beliefs or risk endless litigation.
Recipients of federal funds, including houses of worship, religious schools and other faith-based organizations are litigation targets under the Equality Act as well—even for something as simple as maintaining sex-segregated bathrooms. This means a Muslim food bank, Catholic homeless shelter, or Christian center for female survivors of domestic violence will be punished for doing good while following their religious teachings.
Similarly, any private school that enrolls students who receive Pell grants or who participate in school lunch programs are subject to the Equality Act’s sex discrimination provisions. Urban Catholic schools, for example, which provide life-changing education to low-income children would face an untenable choice: violate their deeply held religious beliefs about human nature, sexual difference, and marriage or close their doors to students who rely on federal help. Adoption and foster care programs run by religious believers who desire to serve the most vulnerable are also at risk.
Biden said one true thing in his Royal Proclamation. He said that those who identify as “transgender” are “made in the image of God and deserving of dignity, respect, and support.” Every human is created in the image of God, but that image is marred by our sinful desires and acts. Humans deserve respect by virtue of being humans—despite the sinful things we desire and do.
One’s dignity—the state or quality of being worthy of honor—is undermined by sinful acts like cross-dressing and mutilating one’s God-created, healthy body.
“Trans”-identifying persons do deserve support, but life and truth-affirming support should never include participating in a delusion or facilitating artificially induced cessation of natural biological processes and surgical mutilation of healthy, properly functioning parts of sexual anatomy.
When promoting false beliefs about “gender identity,” the left talks a lot about “authenticity” without providing their definition—or redefinition—of the term. The American Heritage Dictionary defines “authentic” as “conforming to fact and therefore worthy of trust, reliance, and belief.” As such, a man seeking to pass as a woman is the antithesis of authenticity, and celebrating cross-sex-passing robs men and women of dignity.
Leftists have also redefined “identity.” Homosexual activists first transformed the concept of “identity,” and then seeing how effective a propaganda tool the revised concept of identity was, cross-sex impersonators culturally appropriated it.
Homo-activists sought to recast identity as something intrinsically inviolable, immutable, and good. They sought to refashion identity in such a way as to make it culturally taboo to make judgments about any constituent feature of identity. They re-imagined identity in such a way as to move homoeroticism from the category of phenomena about which humans can legitimately make moral distinctions to one about which society is forbidden to make judgments.
Identity in its former incarnation was merely a way of describing someone. Identity when applied to individual persons denoted the aggregate of phenomena constituting, associated with, experienced and affirmed by individuals. Identity was “the set of behavioral and personal characteristics by which an individual is recognizable as a member of a group.”
Identity was not conceived as some intrinsically moral thing, because identity could refer to either objective, non-behavioral, morally neutral conditions (e.g., height or skin color) or to subjective feelings, beliefs, and volitional acts that could be good or bad, right or wrong. Prior to the new and subversive conceptualization of identity, there existed no absolute cultural prohibition of judging the diverse elements that constitute identity.
By conflating all the phenomena that can constitute identity, “progressives” demanded that society should no more make judgments about feelings and volitional acts than they should about skin color.
In short, this is what “progressives” think about identity (except when it comes to those whose identity is found in Christ):
All phenomena that make up identity are off-limits to moral judgment.
Cross-sex impersonation is part of identity.
Therefore, cross-sex impersonation is immune from moral judgment.
But if all conditions constituted by powerful, persistent, unchosen desires and the behaviors impelled by such feelings are part of this new and culturally destructive understanding of identity and, therefore, immune from moral judgment, then zoophilila/bestiality, “minor-attraction,” “Genetic Sexual Attraction,” and polyamory/promiscuity are immune from moral judgment.
Biden announced that “We celebrate the activism and determination that have fueled the fight for transgender equality.” Presumably, he is using the royal “we” since not all Americans celebrate “trans” activism, which is destroying all respect for and public recognition of sex differences. No more biologically based clubs for boys and girls, no more single sex bathrooms, no more girls’ sports.
Equality means to treat like things alike. As such, “trans”-cultists and their collaborators like Biden are promoting anti-equality. They are demanding that unlike things—that is men and women—be treated as if they’re alike in every context, including contexts in which sex differences matter.
When Biden refers to the “discrimination that the transgender community continues to face across our Nation and around the world,” he is using the word “discrimination” to describe moral beliefs about cross-dressing and mutilating cosmetic procedures with which he disagrees. If moral disapproval of ideas or volitional acts constitutes discrimination, then Biden’s disapproval of the beliefs of Christians on “gender” and sex as well as the acts impelled by those beliefs constitutes discrimination.
Applying consistently leftist redefinitions of authenticity, identity, and discrimination would mean that no one could express disapproval of any beliefs, desires, or volitional acts. These redefinitions pave the broad way to moral anarchy.
Take ACTION:Click HERE to send a message to our U.S. Senators Dick Durbin and Tammy Duckworth to urge them to oppose the federal Equality Act (H.R. 5) which seeks to amend the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to include protections for an individual’s perceived sex, “sexual orientation,” or “gender identity.”
Illinois Educational Conference Invites Weirdo to Speak
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The government school system—paid for by taxpayers—has been so corrupted by the depravity of leftists that schools are unfit for children.
The Illinois Chapter of the Association for the Supervision of Curriculum Development (ASCD) is sponsoring its annual Pre-K and Kindergarten Conference next week in Schaumburg, Illinois. One of their scheduled speakers was Tell Williams IV, an openly homosexual, faux-married pre-K teacher at a private school in a Philadelphia suburb. According to Real Time Michiana, in between preparing his lessons for preschoolers, Williams posts pornographic videos of himself on the adults-only, subscription website Only Fans. Real Time Michiana reports,
Williams has nearly 200 explicit videos and photos of himself masturbating and showing his genitalia on that site and has actively posted new explicit content this year.
In a Twitter post, Williams solicited content requests for his porn videos, asking his followers what they would most like to see. The choices were,
Me f*cking my toy
Me j*rking off and c*mming
Me f*cking my *ss with a d*ldo
Me j*rking off in my spider-man costume [asterisks added]
Williams was scheduled to talk about “Self-Care and Humanizing Educators”:
Mr. Williams will be discussing what real and effective self-care items look like, how we can better advocate for ourselves and our colleagues both in and out of the classroom, and ways we can help normalize and humanize teachers.
First, what does “normalize teachers” even mean?
Second, does the manifestly narcissistic Williams believe that teachers are dehumanized? In what specific ways? Does criticism of teachers for introducing obscene material to children constitute “dehumanization”? Does criticism of teachers for promoting leftist views of homosexuality and cross-sex impersonation constitute “dehumanization”? Does criticism of teachers for calling conservatives “transphobes” and “homophobes” constitute dehumanization of teachers?
Or does calling conservatives “transphobes” and “homophobes” constitute dehumanization of conservatives?
Here’s an idea for Williams gratis: For better self-care and less dehumanization, stop doing porn.
In his bio for the conference, ACSD makes explicit Williams’ goal to use education to promote his depraved views on sexuality. Of course, ACSD uses all the au courant euphemisms:
After teaching years of preschool, Tell saw a gap in curriculum that covers lessons on tolerance, acceptance, and diversity. Because of this he created his own library that helps aide [sic] him and other educators on discussing these important matters in and out of the classroom. … Tell travels and does speaking engagements at schools and conferences on humanizing teachers both inside and out of the classroom, as well as focusing on self-care for educators.
What do you suppose ASCD and Williams mean by “tolerance, acceptance, and diversity”? What are the specific objects of tolerance, acceptance, and diversity to which they are referring? Are they urging tolerance and acceptance of all phenomena related to humans, human action, and human relationships? That seems doubtful.
Are they urging tolerance and acceptance of all diverse views of homoerotic desire, homoerotic acts, and cross-sex identification?
Are they urging tolerance and acceptance of the views of parents who don’t believe their pre-K through high school kids should be introduced to leftist beliefs about homosexuality and cross-sex identification by public school teachers?
Or are they urging “tolerance” and “acceptance”—with both words meaning approval—of only leftist views of homosexuality and cross-sex identification, in which case they’re not really interested in diversity?
And should preschool curricula include any material pertaining to the sexuality issues that obsess leftists?
In short, porn star William’s goals are to foster teacher narcissism and ideologically groom other people’s children.
It appears from the revised ACSD conference website that Williams has either been disinvited or the website scrubbed, so people can’t see his bio. Either way, it would appear ACSD members have become all judgy-judgy. Apparently, educators are free to make the same kind of moral judgments that conservatives are mocked for making. If conservatives want an obscene book removed from curricula, they’re tyrannical. If leftists remove a porn star from their speaking line-up—as they should—no problem. In their view, they’re just making sound judgments.
No amount of scrubbing can erase the question: Why was Williams invited in the first place?
He wasn’t the only homosexual man invited by the Illinois ACSD, which has “over 2,000 members statewide comprised of superintendents, central office administrators, principals and assistant principals, department heads, teachers, university personnel, state agency personnel, and others.” Of the eight men invited—including Williams—three are homosexual: Williams, Matt Halpern, and Greg Smedley-Warren (also faux-married). So, an oddly disproportionate 37 percent of the men invited are homosexual.
The invitation to Tell Williams IV illuminates the corruption in public schools. Their moral guideposts—if any—are arbitrary and fluid. And homosexual teachers, of which there are many in public schools, can never be role models for children. Such teachers are, by word and example, normalizing egregious sin.
To critics of his school drag performance, Zires—whose drag persona is Lola Madison—offered an aggressively defensive retort on Facebook under yet another name, Alfredo Isaac. His retort lacks any regret or shame for violating parental trust and the innocence of children:
It looks like the theological degeneration of Wheaton College continues apace. On April 27, 2022, Wheaton College held a speaking event at which visiting scholar Professor Jayachitra Lalitha, associate professor of New Testament at Tamilnadu Theological Seminary in Madurai, South India and dean of the women’s studies department, discussed the arcane topic and subject of the book she is writing, “Mary Magdalene, the Ascetic Mystic: Gender Sexuality Conundrums.”
This political protest was created by two students at the University of Virginia in 1996. In 2002, the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN) took over the Day of Silence. GLSEN continues to call this a “student-led” event even though GLSEN provides instructions to students and teachers as well as sells t-shirts, temporary tattoos, bookmarks, pins, pronoun buttons, lanyards, “zines,” “LGBTQ” history cards, stickers, masks, and “I [heart] Inclusive Schools” composition books. You name it, they sell it—well, except truth.
GLSEN’s sole raison d’être is to use publicly funded schools to normalize homosexuality and cross-sex identification, which is decidedly not the business of public schools. Normalizing homosexuality and cross-sex identification requires first determining that homosexual acts and cross-dressing, cross-sex hormone doping, and surgical mutilations are moral acts. And government employees have no pedagogical or ethical right to impose their moral beliefs on other people’s children.
