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The Hill reported Saturday that the three farthest-Left Supreme Court justices – all women – collectively freaked out over the recent decision in Mahmoud v. Taylor allowing parents to opt their children out of lessons pushing LGBTQetc. material.
The case stemmed from the Montgomery County, Maryland school system requiring the reading of 13 “LGBTQ+-inclusive” texts in the English and Language Arts curriculum for kids from pre-K through 12th grade. Thirteen. Is the school system requiring that many texts on topics and themes that actually further children’s education, or just on gender indoctrination?
Children 5-11 years old were being required to read or listen to stories such as Prince & Knight, about two male knights who marry each other; Love Violet, about two young girls falling in love; and Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope, about a biological girl transitioning to a boy.
Not a single one of these works promoting gender confusion and subverting the nuclear family appears on any list of literary classics. One might ask, why is such a significant chunk of the curriculum being devoted to books that have no value for the teaching of English and Language Arts? Why prioritize them at the expense of classic works of children’s literature that have stood the test of time?
The answer is that educators today are utterly uninterested in passing down the glorious legacy of the Western canon, the best that has been thought and said in human endeavor. They are not interested in challenging, exercising, and expanding young minds. Instead, they are social justice activists imposing a radical ideology on the young, impressionable minds in their charge in order to drive a wedge between them and their parents, whose traditional values these activists can’t “deconstruct” fast enough. The ultimate aim is the “fundamental transformation,” as Barack once put it, of Western civilization.
Montgomery County school administrators made it clear to teachers that the aforementioned assignments were mandatory; parents would not be allowed to opt out. Teachers were also instructed to “disrupt” the thinking of students whose views of gender dissented from far-Left orthodoxy. If a child even questioned how someone born a boy could become a girl, teachers were expected to say, “When we’re born, people make a guess about our gender and label us ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ based on our body parts. Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong.”
Seriously, how do progressives function in the real world telling themselves such blatant lies? Throughout human history, normal people with a basic grasp of reality – in other words, not ideologues living in a utopian fantasy – have known that people do not have to guess whether a newborn is male or female, much less that they frequently get it wrong. It’s disheartening to realize we live in such stupid times.
Many families sought to opt out of these indoctrination lessons for obvious reasons, but the school board refused, citing the irrational excuse that so many families objected that it would be burdensome on the school to allow them to withdraw.
A 6-3 majority on the Supreme Court wisely ruled in favor of Montgomery County parents’ right to opt their children out of this progressive brainwashing. Justice Samuel Alito delivered the opinion. “A government burdens the religious exercise of parents when it requires them to submit their children to instruction that poses ‘a very real threat of undermining’ the religious beliefs and practices that the parents wish to instill,” Alito wrote:
Many Americans, like the parents in this case, believe that biological sex reflects divine creation, that sex and gender are inseparable, and that children should be encouraged to accept their sex and to live accordingly. But the challenged storybooks encourage children to adopt a contrary viewpoint.
Kelsey Reinhardt, president and CEO of CatholicVote, called the ruling a “major victory for religious parents and religious freedom across America.”
“These books are, in fact, teaching explicit sexual orientation and gender identity issues as early as pre-K,” Will Haun, senior counsel at the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, told The Daily Signal. The reading instructions, he said, “require teachers to make dismissive statements about a student’s religious beliefs, to shame children who disagree, and to teach as facts things that some would not agree are facts.”
Predictably, the response from the Left was apocalyptic outrage, even though the public overwhelmingly supported these parents. One propagandist at HuffPost (is that site still around?) declared the decision “another victory for right-wing culture warriors who have been leading the movement to remove books from classrooms.” The Left has been waging a culture war against America for over half a century, but when conservatives push back, we’re condemned as the culture warriors – as if we started it. Also, it’s a lie to claim we’re leading a movement to remove books from classrooms – we’re leading a movement to remove sexually explicit indoctrination from our children’s education, but HuffPost chose to leave out that detail.
In their dissent to the decision, the radical Justices fretted that “the damage to America’s public education system will be profound” and “threatens the very essence of public education.” (In fact, nothing has been more profoundly damaging to public education than progressivism, but I digress.) Justice Sonia “wise Latina” Sotomayor fear-mongered that there “will be chaos for this nation’s public schools” and that education and children will “suffer” if parents are allowed to opt their children out. She also worried that the ruling would have a “chilling effect” on schools offering such classes in the future, and that multicultural inclusiveness would cease to become a priority in public education. One can only hope.
Alito blasted this “deliberately blinkered view.” He wrote, “Only by air-brushing the record can the dissent claim that the books and instruction are just about exposure and kindness.”
The Left’s outrage is rooted in their conviction that children belong not to their parents but to the community collectively – just as Karl Marx envisioned. Wisconsin Democrat Rep. Lee Snodgrass, for example, once insisted, “If parents want to ‘have a say’ in their child’s education, they should homeschool or pay for private school tuition out of their family budget.”
In an even starker example, Iowa school board member Rachel Wall lifted the veil when she said the quiet part out loud: “The purpose of a public ed is to not teach kids what the parents want. It is to teach them what society needs them to know. The client is not the parent, but the community.”
And there, ladies and gentlemen, is the crux of the civil war currently underway in America, between Americans who believe that children’s best interests are served by their parents, and those who believe children exist to serve the best interests of the State.
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Like Obama said…. “elections have consequences”.
Get over it loser!
The left are using several different methods to groom kids into this destructive, pervasive and mentally ill persuasion.
They start in the NEA Run Schools brainwashing the youth with this Global Warming, Climate Change Scam they scare the kids with Fake Pictures of drowning Polar Bears Hogg Thunberg and the rest of the Globalists Tools they use
Secular people have very few children, while people of faith are having most of them. So the left has decided that they need to confiscate those children or their ideas will die out. Plus many of them want your children for even worse reasons. Great ruling by the Supremes.
We are 1 ONE election away from insanity!!!
The 3 morons on the Court could not act more stupidly and as for Jackson, she is in a class by herself.
THAT’S for SURE. REMEDIAL class for the “slow kids.”
No Transing the Kids get the Rainbow freaks away from the kids and out of the Schools
When I was young we lived in Montgomery County. I took a look at the old homestead via Google Earth a while back and the old house was gone, replaced by parking lots, tennis courts, condos, swimming pools and high tension lines. The woods and the cornfields had disappeared.
Nobody had ever heard of “LGBTQ+” and the transgender ideology would have been incomprehensible. You didn’t need to be “religious” to think that there are only two sexes. No school board would have contemplated requiring Lady Chatterly’s Lover much less gay “pride” books. And yes, I did know about slavery and the destruction of Native American culture. We were all taught that America wasn’t perfect, but we weren’t told it was the “Great Satan” either.
Yeah, I know. “You can’t go home again”. In the case of Montgomery County, Maryland …
Why would I want to?
I am pleased I do not have children in public schools. My two kids are in their 30s or better. My two oldest grandgirls were pulled from a RED state school (their Gpa was school board president) and now are in a Christian school.. They are learning and doing well. No alphabet studies.
Despite what they claim, the AFT and NEA do not give a fig about the students. They simply advocate for their member’s benefits.
You are off in your timeline by at least a factor of two. Read about the marxist communist operatives active here in the US back in the late nineteen teens and early twenties. They were carefully building their strategy to infiltrate and turn education and entertainment into propaganda branches of their imagined remaking of this nation. The figured they’d not bother with “religion”, leaving that to its own internal corruptive forces. They determined to focus upon sexual perversion and immorality as a key tool in this work. Capturing the education system would be simple: promote unionisation through which they could, using their economic influence, position their own corrruptocrats into key positions of power.
Etnertainmen would be a cakewalk: money was the only needed tool, and that could be had easily. In fact, the industry would gladly fund itself as there was great profit in cinema. Again, their easiest gateway would be sexual immorality and perversion. Normalising such behaviour on the screen would be an easy way deep into the culture. So for above a century now, their plan has been working.
And now, horror of horrors, some RELIGIOUS folk have mustered up the courage to stand up against it and say NO. MY CHILD is not YOUR property. I will be the determining factor over what m child will be taught. And SCOTUS wonderfuly signed off on this principle.
This Decision also serves to easily identify the ones on the side of the goals I outlined above, along with their methods. Those three empresses have no clothes, and do not like it when some point their fingers at them and say “SEE, LOOKIT THEM!! We see how you are, plain as day.
Next safe, sane, logical step, REMOVE ALL ROGUE JUDGES. Violation of oath and/or constitution are to be immediately removed in chains. It’s what constitution says. No vote. No trial.
“When we’re born, people make a guess about our gender and label us ‘boy’ or ‘girl’ based on our body parts. Sometimes they’re right and sometimes they’re wrong.”
Uh huh. They are right 99.99% of the time, but to stack the deck toward dysphoria, we have groomers, naked Pride parades, books like these, and a medical industry raking in massive amounts of cash to neuter these children forever.
Another thought.
The “Wise Latina” does does not have any children. She knows nothing more about children than the 23yoa blue haired., nose & lip ringed Lesbian with the “Social Work” degree employed by your local CPS agency. (Yes. I worked with such ppl.)
Yet each claim to be experts on raising your kids.
As a practicing Christian I understand the basic Gospel. Our Heavenly Father has entrusted Me AND my Wife with the responsibility of raising the Children HE has entrusted us with. One of the most important responsibilities he has trusted us with educating His/our children. This includes religious and secular education. I depend on the Church to ASSIST us in their religious education and public schools to ASSIST us in their secular education. Having spent 24 years in the US Army I understand responsibility. I will answer to My Heavenly Father for my family–but only to a point. Each human has the Agency to take what they have learned and decide for THEMSELVES what they do with their life. Satan understands this AND uses it to insert as much error as he can into each life. While Satan can’t directly hurt me, he can and does influence others to do so. Thus we get corrupt religious leaders and corrupt leaders/teachers to lie to our children. Any error they can introduce influence OUR decisions in this life.
In the last 10 to 20 years Satan’s power has influenced MANY Americans (and other countries as well) to violate almost all of Heavenly Fathers rules. So school boards deliberately violating them is no surprise. As I stated parents have a responsibility to fight this. Where school boards and other governing bodies are violating Heavenly Fathers rule, run for office and correct this! If necessary fight it out in the courts. We owe it to our children.