Washington state Democrats are pushing a bill that would make sure kindergartners will learn about sex starting in 2022. House Bill 2184 <a href="http://lawfilesext.leg.wa.gov/biennium/2019-20/Pdf/Bills/House%20Bills/2184.pdf?q=20200121052633">states</a>, “In accordance with the requirements in this section and any recommendations of the sexual health education work group established in the 2019-2021 omnibus operating appropriations act that are enacted by the legislature, every public school shall provide comprehensive sexual health education to each student by the 2022-23 school year.”
As radio host Jason Rantz of KTTH <a href="https://mynorthwest.com/1676789/rantz-mandatory-sex-ed-kindergarten-washington/">points out</a>:
<blockquote>One section of the curriculum for teachers to use as a guide suggests talking to students about the penis as not having “any bones in it, but when people talk about an erection as a ‘boner,’ they’re mistaken.” Girls are taught about a “very sensitive little area at the top called the clitoris.”</blockquote>
Despite the fact that a survey conducted by the Comprehensive Sexual Health Education work group (CSHE) , which was created in 2019 under the Office of Superintendent, found that 54% of respondents felt sex education for children in grades K-5 should not be required, a <a href="https://app.leg.wa.gov/committeeschedules/Home/Document/208965#toolbar=0&amp;navpanes=0">document</a> from CSHE reportedly stated that such education was necessary because the “social emotional needs of our youngest students must be addressed for prevention of future challenges.” CHSE added that this was “an issue of equity and would help to ensure all students across the state receive quality, evidence-informed instruction, regardless of who they are or where they live,&#8221; according to Rantz.
As Rantz points out, “It’s not surprising that the group rejected the public’s input. The entire 16-member, all-female work group were described as in agreement with their findings, though they had conversations about what some of the K-3 curriculum should look like.”
State Representative Michelle Caldier (R-Bremerton), speaking at a House Education Committee hearing, admonished CHSE, stating, “I think that sometimes, you know in politics and when we’re making decisions. that it’s very easy to surround ourselves with people who just agree with us and I think that if the work group just had conversations and no disagreement, that really concerns me because I know there’s a lot of disagreement for that. And I would encourage you guys to go back and really listen to the people who disagree and come back with something better.”
Laurie Dills, from the Office of Superintendent lamely responded that “we were exposed to a wide variety of viewpoints around the state.”
The curriculum includes statements such as these: “This lesson does, however, acknowledge that ‘there are some body parts that mostly just girls have and some parts that mostly just boys have. Being a boy or a girl doesn’t have to mean you have those parts, but for most people this is how their bodies are.’”
Rantz noted, “For Grade 1, teachers should have their students read ‘My Princess Boy’ before teaching the six and seven-year-olds about reproduction.”
“My Princess Boy” <a href="https://www.amazon.com/My-Princess-Boy-Cheryl-Kilodavis/dp/1442429887/ref=sr_1_1?crid=NIME6PF5URKD&amp;keywords=my+princess+boy&amp;qid=1579614476&amp;sprefix=My+Princess+boy%2Caps%2C195&amp;sr=8-1">describes itself</a> this way on its Amazon website: “Dyson loves pink, sparkly things. Sometimes he wears dresses. Sometimes he wears jeans. He likes to wear his princess tiara, even when climbing trees. He’s a Princess Boy.”
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Learning and playroom

Washington State Dems Push Bill Forcing Kindergartners To Learn About Sex

Children

Washington

The Warwick pastor who falsely accused a teenage boy of raping his teenage girlfriend spent one night in jail before starting her 18-month sentence of home confinement.
The Daily Wire previously <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-who-falsely-accused-a-13-year-old-of-rape-and-allegedly-distributed-child-porn-and-groomed-a-teenage-girl-for-sex-gets-no-jail-time">reported</a> that Kelly Shannon, 48, who is also a Christian rock singer, would reportedly get no jail time after she falsely accused the boy and was charged possessing child pornography and allegedly grooming a young girl for sex. Shannon was officially sentenced on Tuesday and was forced to spend a single night in jail in addition to her home confinement.
Shannon admitted in court on Tuesday to “two counts of filing false police reports and one count of using a computer for fraudulent purposes under a plea deal,” NBC 10 News <a href="https://turnto10.com/i-team/nbc-10-i-team-warwick-pastor-sentenced-for-false-allegations">reported</a>.
Christy Gilroy, the mother of the teenage boy whom Shannon falsely accused, said that her son probably would have been considered a sex offender if Shannon hadn’t admitted to her crimes.
&#8220;I didn&#8217;t even know if this day was ever going to come, because the truth is, they chased my son,&#8221; Gilroy told NBC 10. &#8220;They chased him right from day one. They believed immediately he was guilty. Whereas [Shannon] sat five years on bail, and finally, six years later, we&#8217;re having our day in court.&#8221;
&#8220;I believe if she never came clean, my son&#8217;s name would have never been cleared,&#8221; Gilroy added. &#8220;There was never a sexual assault. It was all made up because I put a restraining order on Kelly Shannon.&#8221;
Shannon had been helping Gilroy’s son and his girlfriend with homework. She eventually performed a fake marriage ceremony for the teens, who were 14 at the time. Gilroy found out and took away her son’s phone as punishment. Shannon bought him a new one, which Gilroy also found. Gilroy then took out a restraining order against Shannon.
Shannon reportedly threatened the boy by telling him she would have him arrested if his mother didn’t lift the restraining order. She then accused the teenager of raping his girlfriend. The boy was arrested and charged with rape, sent to a juvenile detention facility, and forced to wear an ankle monitoring bracelet.
Shannon also was charged initially with possessing child pornography. The girl in the photos told investigators that she was forced to pose for the photos by Shannon. As part of her plea deal, Shannon was able to get the felony charge of child pornography reduced to a felony charge of using a computer for fraudulent charges. This keeps Shannon from having to register as a sex offender.
Gilroy, of course, is not happy about the plea deal.
&#8220;If she was a man, she would have absolutely had to register as a sex offender, and I believe she should have, too,&#8221; Gilroy said.
A spokesperson for the Rhode Island Attorney General’s office told NBC 10, in part:
Among the many factors we consider in all dispositions are the strength of the case, the defendant’s history and characteristics and the impact on the victims. Based on that evaluation here, we agreed that this was the best disposition to hold the defendant accountable and offer appropriate protections to the victims.

Sad Young Man Sitting On Bed At Home

Woman Who Falsely Accused Teenager Of Rape Will Spend Just One Night In Jail, Mother Speaks Out

Crime

false accusations

A recently released report commissioned by Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham found that the city’s police force allowed nearly 100 pedophiles to go free, resulting in 57 young girls being groomed. The report revealed the criminals were allowed to go free because the police department was afraid to go after the men because they were Asian.
The Daily Mail <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7885313/Child-victims-grooming-gangs-failed-Manchester-police-report-finds.html">reported</a> that former Greater Manchester Police (GMP) detective Maggie Oliver now has called for GMP chiefs to be charged for their role in the disaster.
“GMP detectives launched Operation Augusta in 2004 after the death of a 15-year-old girl called Victoria Agoglia who previously told carers she had been raped and injected with heroin by an Asian man,” the outlet reported. “But the probe was shelved a year later despite the force uncovering almost 100 paedophiles in south Manchester who later went on to rape and abuse dozens of young girls in the areas.”
Oliver said after the report was released that for “Fifteen years &#8211; the perpetrators that we knew on Operation Augusta were abusing generations of children were allowed to walk free.”
“The kids themselves that I spoke to &#8211; I was on Operation Augusta, I wrote the report &#8211; those children were just cast to the wind, left to their own devices. Nobody cared about them,” she continued. “And I am talking about the people at the top of the police and at social services. The chief constable, assistant chief constables, head of social services, the people who knew the facts, who knew the truth and they chose to bury the truth. That, in my opinion, is unforgivable.”
The report found that officers worried arresting the pedophiles would result in “the incitement of racial hatred,” the Mail reported.
The Telegraph <a href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/01/14/police-officers-knowingly-neglected-girls-exploited-grooming/">added</a> that the report quoted an unnamed GMP detective constable who had arrested a child sex offender who was not Asian.
“What had a massive input was the offending target group were predominantly Asian males and we were told to try and get other ethnicities,&#8221; the detective said.
Part of what the discontinued Operation Augusta found was “the systematic exploitation of looked after children mainly in the care system in the city of Manchester and around the Rochdale area,” the Telegraph reported.
The report released Tuesday was written by child protection specialist Malcolm Newsam and former senior police officer Gary Ridgway, launched thanks in part to Oliver’s whistleblowing.
“I want the law changing so there can be retrospective accountability for people whose duty it is to protect the vulnerable. It’s knowing and deliberate neglection of duty…[those who were involved] should be charged with gross misconduct &#8211; it’s criminal &#8211; where is the accountability?” Oliver told the Telegraph.
The GMP has now sent a referral to the Independent Office for Police Conduct, a British police watchdog, to investigate whether any officer’s conduct needed to be investigated.
Assistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain, head of Specialist Crime for Greater Manchester Police, told the Telegraph that “Children should be able to expect those responsible for their care will do all they can to keep them safe and I want to apologise to all those vulnerable children who were let down.”
He said police are still looking into Agoglia’s death.

Two British Policemen

Report: British Police Refused To Arrest 97 Abusers For Fear They Would ‘Stoke Racial Tensions’

Police

Sexual Abuse

United Kingdom

A convicted sex offender in Michigan is heading to prison for 10–20 years after being caught with child pornography on his computer. What makes this case interesting is the defense that 45-year-old Joseph Gobrick offered in court. Speaking to a judge at his sentencing hearing, <a href="https://www.wzzm13.com/article/news/crime/man-sentenced-for-child-sexually-abusive-material/69-7fadc67c-c26e-4a9c-ba51-992caa86caf2">Gobrick claimed</a> that he has a First Amendment right to look at child porn. He also claimed that he identifies as an eight-year-old girl.
“I’ve always been an eight-year-old girl,’’ Gobrick contended. “Even in my drawings and fantasies, I am always an eight-year-old girl. &#8230; There are adults having sex with me in an online forum as an eight-year-old girl.&#8221;
The judge apparently did not find this argument persuasive. No reasonable person would. But an obvious question is raised here. Why exactly can&#8217;t Gobrick identity as a young girl? On what basis can we deny or disqualify his self-identification?
Again, the reasonable among us know the answer. He can&#8217;t identify as one because he isn&#8217;t one. According to all available metrics, he is a 45-year-old pervert, not a third grader. He cannot choose to be a different age. He is the age he is, and that&#8217;s all there is to it. It is either insanity or willful deception that causes him to make this claim about himself. We therefore are perfectly justified in refuting his self-identity and refusing to play along with it. More than merely justified, we are in fact morally obliged to insist on truth over harmful fantasies and delusions.
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But propagators of left-wing gender theory are not reasonable. Rather, they insist on unreason. They argue that a man can be a woman — not just symbolically or legally, but actually, literally — even in spite of the testimony of his own biological and chromosomal makeup. In the case of a man identifying as a woman, the only thing that matters, they say, is how he feels about himself. The objective facts are irrelevant. Biology is a moot point. He need provide no proof. We are to take him at his word, and that&#8217;s all there is to it.
Well, if biology and physical reality are irrelevant to the question of sex, why should they suddenly be relevant to the question of age? If Gobrick can identify as a female, why can&#8217;t he identify as a female of whatever age he chooses? At least a man who &#8220;feels like a child&#8221; can rightly point out that he was once a child, so he has some frame of reference for judging these feelings. And at least it does make sense, in the case of certain mental disabilities, to say that an adult &#8220;has the brain of a child.&#8221; None of this vindicates Gobrick to any extent at all, but my point is that transageism is actually more credible and makes more sense than transgenderism. It&#8217;s still bogus, but slightly less so. Age does change, after all. I will not be a 33-year-old man forever. But I will be a man forever. If my sex is a fluid characteristic, how much more fluid must my age be?
We have not yet gotten to the point where the Left will openly defend a man like Gobrick and his right to be accepted by society as the child he supposedly believes himself to be. But we will get to that point. We have to. They&#8217;ve already argued his case for him, even if they won&#8217;t admit it and maybe don&#8217;t yet realize it.

Female And Male Symbols

WALSH: Every Sane Person Saw This Coming. Now A Pedophile Claims He Identifies As An 8-Year-Old Girl.

Health

Leftism

Pedophilia

Progressivism

Sexuality

A woman who once worked with troubled teens pleaded guilty last week to having sexual contact with a 13-year-old boy.
The woman, 30-year-old Amanda Shantay Williams, was listed as a “counselor” at Three Springs, a juvenile facility for troubled youths that was once located in Madison, Alabama, but has since moved its occupants to other facilities throughout the state. Despite her job title as counselor, defense attorney Robin Wolfe <a href="https://www.al.com/news/2020/01/former-three-springs-counselor-pleads-guilty-to-sex-with-13-year-old.html">told AL.com</a> that she had no formal training for such a position and that her duties were more in line with a day-care worker.
Williams was <a href="https://www.al.com/news/huntsville/2017/07/teacher_student_sex_alabama.html">first arrested</a> two years ago, in July 2017, and charged with two counts of engaging in sexual contact with a student under the age of 19. At the time, she faced up to 40 years in prison and the requirement to register as a sex offender.
&#8220;Amanda, a counselor at Sequel, gave oral sex to several boys, all under the age of 19 years, at that facility,” an investigator wore in court documents, according to AL. Those records also confirmed that the sexual activity occurred within a two-month period while Williams worked at the facility.
When her arrest was initially announced, Madison police said she had turned herself in, according to AL.
After her first arrest, Williams went on to be indicted on four felony charges: “three counts of having sexual contact with students and one count of second-degree sodomy,” AL reported. Last week, Williams pleaded guilty to one of the sodomy charges in exchange for dropping the other three charges. She took what’s known as a “blind plea,” which meant she didn’t reach a prearranged deal with prosecutors about a sentence.
Even with that lone charge, she faces up to 20 years in prison and registering as a sex offender for life. Since Williams is a woman, she likely won’t get anywhere near 20 years in prison – if she gets jail time at all.
Wolfe, the defense attorney, told AL that Williams has no prior criminal history and should be considered for probation instead of jail. The outlet reported that Williams is a single mother and no longer working with children.
“She hopes the court will see that she’s taking responsibility for her actions,” Wolfe told the outlet. “She’s remorseful, she’s embarrassed and she has good family support.”
Being a single mother shouldn’t excuse someone from their crimes. A man would never get the same treatment in a similar situation. Yet it appears as though the Madison County district attorney’s office may also try to spare Williams from jail.
Assistant district attorney Tim Douthit told AL that he wasn’t going to recommend any specific number of years for Williams to spend in prison.
“It’s going to be the judge’s call,” he told the outlet.
“I feel like I shouldn’t have to say this, but don’t have sex with a 13 year old,” Douthit said after Williams’ court hearing last week.
If the sentences for other women who have sexually abused children are any indication, there’s a good chance Williams will get only probation for her offenses.

Amanda Shantay Williams

‘Counselor’ Admits To Sexual Contact With 13-Year-Old Boy, May Only Get Probation

Alabama

A Warwick, Rhode Island, pastor admitted to falsely accusing a 13-year-old boy of raping his 13-year-old girlfriend and violating an order that prohibited him from contacting the girl.
Her false accusations against the boy led to him being held at a juvenile detention facility and being forced to wear an electronic monitoring device, The Providence Journal <a href="Rhode%20Island%20Training%20School">reported</a>. The pastor, Kelly Shannon, 48, is also a Christian rock singer, but what she has admitted to and has been accused of are anything but Christian.
Shannon pleaded “no contest” in exchange for reducing a charge of possessing child pornography down to a charge of “fraudulently using a computer to send and receive photographs,” the Journal reported.
Police found photos of a teenage boy’s erect penis on Shannon’s phone, The Metro <a href="https://metro.co.uk/2020/01/09/scheming-christian-rocker-48-avoids-jail-falsely-accusing-boy-13-rape-12033153/?ito=article.amp.share.top.twitter">reported</a>. The ordeal began when Shannon started helping the boy and his girlfriend with their homework and taking the boy out for various trips. At some point, Shannon performed a fake marriage ceremony for the young couple. The boy’s mother found out about the fake ceremony and took away his phone. Shannon reportedly bought him a new one, which the mother also found. The mother then got a restraining order against Shannon.
Shannon, according to the Journal, threatened the boy with arrest if his mother didn’t get the restraining order lifted.
This is when Shannon accused the young teenager of raping his girlfriend. She went so far as to tell the young girl what to say in order to back up the claims. Shannon is also accused, according to Metro, of making the girl perform sex acts with other young boys and coaching her on how to perform those acts. The girl reportedly told teachers at her school that Shannon had asked her to lie about being raped, prompting school officials to call the police.
Shannon has also been accused of taking nude photos of a female teenage relative, which she then reportedly passed around to young boys that she knew.
In court, the teenage boy said that he thought he was “a good judge of character, but at 13, I didn’t have the trust-your-gut instinct I wish I had.”
“[Shannon] was someone that mastered the art of deception and manipulation. I trusted her, an adult figure, and unknowingly over time became a victim in her web of lies,” the boy said, according to a transcript from Metro. “It would take a hundred pages to list all your lies, manipulations, and abuse of the legal and justice system. You may have a few years of punishment, but I have to live with what you did to me for the rest of my life.”
The Journal reported that they boy is now “suffering from PTSD, anxiety, anger and trust issues in the aftermath” of what Shannon had done to him.
So, what punishment did Shannon end up receiving for what she did? Essentially, nothing.
She was facing five years in prison (still a short amount of time for what she did) for the computer charge. Instead, she will serve 18 months on home confinement while the remaining three-and-a-half years were suspended with probation. She also received one year of home confinement for each of the false reports she made to police, but her sentences are to be served concurrently, meaning she only received two years of home confinement for falsely accusing a teenager of rape, possessing child pornography, and allegedly forcing a teenage girl to perform sex acts.
Shannon’s plea deal led to five additional charges being dropped, and most infuriating of all, she won’t have to register as a sex offender. No man in a similar position would get such a deal.

Teenage boy

Woman Who Falsely Accused A 13-Year-Old Of Rape And Allegedly Distributed Child Porn And Groomed A Teenage Girl For Sex Gets NO Jail Time

Rape

A Cleveland suburb was rocked Friday by an Amber Alert alleging a 12-year-old boy had been kidnapped.
Police immediately began searching for the missing boy and the suspects, 19 News <a href="https://www.cleveland19.com/2019/12/27/cleveland-police-search-year-old-boy-that-was-car-stolen-citys-west-side/">reported</a>. They found them driving the mother’s stolen 2008 Saturn Vue and pursued. The men crashed the car and tried to run, but they were apprehended.
Police then discovered that the child had not been kidnapped, and the mother made up the story to get police to look for her stolen car. The Amber Alert was cancelled with a notice that the mother had lied.
Cleveland Police Sgt. Jennifer Ciaccia released a statement regarding the mother’s deception.
“Preliminary information indicates that this child was never in the car and was possibly at home the whole time,” Ciaccia said in the statement. “The officers on scene are going to be making reports due to the mother making false police reports. The case will be referred to the detective bureau for follow up &#8230;”
Ciaccia, according to 19 News, said the mother had not been charged. Ohio law allows the mother to be charged with a first-degree misdemeanor charge for filing a false police report.
The outlet reported that her 12-year-old boy was safe at home with his father during the whole ordeal.
19 News sent reporter Kelly Kennedy to the mother’s home in Cleveland’s East Side. When the reporter arrived, the mother was not keen to tell her side of the story.
“&#8217;Why are you here? And then you’re all talking about a hoax and all of that s**t! Can you get the f*** off my porch? I don’t even know how y’all know where I live at or none of that,&#8217; the mother said,” according to 19 News.
Kennedy then told the mother that “Police gave us that information.”
When the mother asked why Kennedy was at her home, the reporter said she wanted “to know if you filed a false police report.”
The mother said: “It’s not true.”
Kennedy then asked her several times if her son was in the car, as she told police. The mother just kept saying “It’s not true.”
Kennedy asked yet again: “Well, was your son in the car when it was stolen?”
The mother then closed her front door.
Women falsely claiming their children were abducted is nothing new. In September 2018, Florida mother Charisse Stinson told police her 2-year-old son had been kidnapped. The New York Post <a href="https://nypost.com/2018/09/05/mom-who-claimed-son-was-kidnapped-admits-she-left-him-to-die-in-woods/">reported</a> at the time that Stinson later admitted that she had hit the boy, causing seizures, and then left him to die in the woods.
In July 2018, another Florida mom, Tammy Steffen, told police her former business partner had <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-allegedly-faked-her-daughters-kidnapping-ashe-schow">tried to abduct her 12-year-old daughter</a>. Police later determined that Steffen staged the kidnapping to get back at the former business partner. Surveillance footage showed the man was in another city at the time of the alleged abduction attempt. More surveillance footage showed Steffen purchasing supplies later “discovered” as part of the abduction. Police suspected Steffen lied to get back at the former business partner because she believed he somehow prevented her from winning an online fitness contest.

Shadow of a boy

Woman Told Police Her Son Was Kidnapped So They Would Look For Her Stolen Car

Ohio

&#8220;Bombshell&#8221; actress Charlize Theron recently discussed her biologically male &#8220;transgender&#8221; child, asking people to use the &#8220;right&#8221; pronouns when they speak about seven-year-old Jackson.
&#8220;My daughter&#8217;s story is really her story, and one day, if she chooses, she&#8217;ll tell her story,&#8221; the actress told Pride Source, according to <a href="https://www.theblaze.com/news/actress-charlize-theron-says-she-would-appreciate-it-if-people-called-her-transgender-7-year-old-by-the-right-pronoun">TheBlaze</a>. &#8220;I feel like as her mother, for me, it was important to let the world know that I would appreciate it if they would use the right pronouns for her.&#8221;
&#8220;I think it became harder for us the older she got that people were still writing about her in the wrong pronouns, and also I was still talking about her in the press using the wrong pronoun,&#8221; Theron said. &#8220;It really hurt her feelings. I don&#8217;t want to be that mom, and that was really why I [revealed the news about Jackson] a while back.&#8221;
Jackson was adopted by Theron in 2012. Up until the child was three years old, the actress said in April, she wrongly thought Jackson was &#8220;a boy.&#8221; The child, according to Theron, is a girl.
&#8220;Yes, I thought she was a boy, too,&#8221; Theron told U.K. outlet <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6938233/Charlize-Theron-child-thought-boy-girl.html">The Daily Mail</a>. &#8220;Until she looked at me when she was three years old and said, &#8216;I am not a boy.'&#8221;
&#8220;My job as a parent is to celebrate them and to love them and to make sure that they have everything they need in order to be what they want to be,&#8221; the actress said of her children. &#8220;And I will do everything in my power for my kids to have that right and to be protected within that.&#8221;
Theron is not the only Hollywood celebrity to indulge his/her child&#8217;s seeming gender confusion.
In September, &#8220;Transformers&#8221; actress Megan Fox defended her decision to let her six-year-old son Noah wear dresses to school.
Speaking with “<a href="https://www.foxnews.com/entertainment/sara-gilbert-the-talk-conners-leaving" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Talk</a>,&#8221; &#8220;Fox said that her son sometimes wants to wear dresses to his &#8216;liberal, hippy&#8217; school, and she allows him to pick the outfit he desires despite the ridicule he faces from other boys,&#8221; <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megan-fox-defends-letting-her-6-year-old-son-wear-paul-bois">The Daily Wire</a> reported.
“Sometimes, he’ll dress himself and he likes to wear dresses, sometimes,” said the mother of three. “And I send him to a really liberal, hippy school, but even there — here in California — he still has little boys going, ‘Boys don’t wear dresses,’ or ‘Boys don’t wear pink.&#8217;”
“So we’re going through that now, where I’m trying to teach him to be confident no matter what anyone else says,” the &#8220;Jennifer&#8217;s Body&#8221; star continued.
“He had stopped wearing dresses for a while. He just wore one two days ago to school, and he came home and I was like, ‘How was it? Did any of the friends at school have anything to say?&#8217;” Fox explained. “And he was like, ‘Well, all the boys laughed when I came in, but I don’t care, I love dresses too much.&#8217; &#8230; He designs, he draws outfits. He’s very talented.&#8221;
Related: <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/megan-fox-defends-letting-her-6-year-old-son-wear-paul-bois">Megan Fox Defends Letting Her 6-Year-Old Son Wear Dresses To School</a>

Charlize Theron

Charlize Theron Talks About Her 7-Year-Old ‘Transgender’ Child, Wants Folks To Use ‘Right’ Pronouns

LGBT

Transgender

On Thursday’s episode of “The Ben Shapiro Show,” the Daily Wire editor-in-chief talks about a New York Times column that the Christmas classic “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” is full of “queer code.” Video and partial transcript below: 
Apparently, The New York Times editorial page, when it&#8217;s not defending anti-Semitism coming from particular sources, is also a place for people to spill their feelings about their childhood struggles with sexuality. 
It’s amazing, half of editorial pages on the left-wing are now dedicated to people telling their personal stories about coming to grips with their own orientation, and it&#8217;s like, why? Okay, so what? Here&#8217;s the example. 
Jennifer Finney Boylan, who is a transgender woman, meaning a man who believes that he’s a woman, has a piece in <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2019/12/11/opinion/rudolph-christmas-queer.html">The New York Times</a> called “Rudolph, The Queerest Holiday Special.”
<blockquote>It gets better for misfit reindeer, too.</blockquote>
So now we are to believe that a holiday special constructed in 1964 is actually a secret decoded message about being gay in America. So we have a long piece about why Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer is an inspiration to gay kids the world over. 
<blockquote>I&#8217;m sure that conservatives who love this old holiday chestnut will be infuriated by this suggestion.</blockquote>
Not infuriated, just puzzled why you would think that a holiday special constructed in 1964 is about gay rights — and also, why I would care how you interpret Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer. This is like a trite entry from your journal, diary, in your &#8220;intersectional theory&#8221; class. But Jennifer Finney Boylan says:
<blockquote>But if you watch the show without understanding that it&#8217;s central conflict is the way people who are different are constantly shunned and humiliated — well, I don&#8217;t know what show you&#8217;re watching. </blockquote>
Well, what if that&#8217;s just a general message that applies to anyone who&#8217;s ever been bullied? I was viciously bullied in high school — that had nothing to do sexual orientation. A lot of kids are, but apparently everything is now about sexual orientation. 
<blockquote>Conservatives seem to miss the point of a lot of things having to do with Christmas, actually. Is it really possible that anyone can watch (or read) Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol” without understanding its fundamental critique of capitalism?</blockquote>
“A Christmas Carol” is not really about capitalism so much as it is about the idea that capitalism doesn&#8217;t solve the problem of the need for charity. Again, this goes back to the fundamental point of the show, which is that free markets and liberty are wondrous, wondrous things. But, you also have to have an underlying social fabric in order to promote those things. 
<blockquote>As for “Rudolph,” the whole movie feels as LGBTQ-friendly to me as any episode of “Queer Eye” or “Steven Universe” or “The L Word.” </blockquote>
Except for the fact that Rudolph doesn&#8217;t, you know, like have sex with any of the other male reindeer. So aside from that, and the fact that it&#8217;s a children&#8217;s special — I am particularly tired of the hijacking of children&#8217;s literature &#8230; in order promote political viewpoints on sexual matters. It&#8217;s a piece of children&#8217;s literature, cut it out. 
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The Left likes to play this game a lot when it comes to TV. So what they will do is, for example, some members of the LGBTQ community will start saying that &#8220;SpongeBob Square Pants&#8221; is like a gay metaphor, and then people on the Right will be like, “What are you talking, that&#8217;s ridiculous. Like, stop it.” [Then the Left will say] “Aha, you&#8217;re upset by a children&#8217;s cartoons.&#8221; Like, well, no, you&#8217;re the ones who are hijacking a children&#8217;s cartoon to make a point about your own sexual orientation. 
I remember this was a big controversy in the early &#8217;90s when some members of the LGBTQ community were suggesting that some of the Teletubbies were gay. And so Jerry Falwell made a comment [paraphrasing], “Well, the Teletubbies aren&#8217;t gay and it&#8217;s silly to try and hijack children&#8217;s characters” and the Left was like, “Aha, trolled you.” 
How about this — how about you just leave the children&#8217;s literature alone, especially because you have a whole wing of children&#8217;s literature, we&#8217;ve talked about it on the show, that is specifically designed to promote these sexualized viewpoints for children. Can’t you just leave Rudolph alone? He&#8217;s got enough problems than you putting your your own issues with sexual orientation on his fragile flying back.
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I&#8217;m fascinated by the debate that has been raging these past several days among conservatives around the issue of pornography. I&#8217;m happy to accept blame for helping to start this scuffle because I think it has been a clarifying moment for conservatism. As Jane Coaston outlined in her fair and insightful <a href="https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/12/12/21003109/pornography-obscenity-barr-doj-conservatives-libertarians">reporting at Vox,</a> the dispute over porn regulation really springs from a more fundamental disagreement about the actual purpose of government.
<a href="https://nypost.com/2019/12/09/porn-isnt-free-speech-on-the-web-or-anywhere/">Guys like Sohrab Ahmari</a> have come down on the pro-regulation side, while the libertarians at <a href="https://reason.com/podcast/are-we-really-gonna-do-another-war-on-porn/">Reason</a> have settled, unsurprisingly, on the other. The dividing line even runs through The Daily Wire. My colleagues <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/knowles-the-porn-debate-isnt-really-about-porn">Michael Knowles</a> and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-at-first-things-porn-is-not-a-blessing-of-liberty">Josh Hammer</a> join Ahmari, myself, and others in the view that government has a legitimate role in battling the porn epidemic, while <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/episode/ep-915-should-we-ban-pornography-2">Ben Shapiro</a> and <a href="https://twitter.com/JeremyDBoreing/status/1204426556484898816">Jeremy Boreing</a> say that it should not have a substantial role — and any role, if there is one, should not include an outright ban. I think everyone cited above has contributed thoughtfully to the discussion, and I&#8217;m not just saying that because two of them happen to sign my paychecks.
But through this whole back-and-forth, I haven&#8217;t seen anyone engage with what I consider to be my strongest argument. Putting aside, for a moment, the philosophical  discussion about the nature of government and the state&#8217;s role in preserving the common good — an important conversation, but one that leads us far into the weeds and loses sight of the original subject in the process — I&#8217;d like to re-emphasize a very simple point I&#8217;ve made about the porn problem, specifically.
The defense of pornography, or at least of its remaining legal and mostly unregulated, seems to hinge on the fact that the content is produced and viewed by consenting adults. If viewers do not consent to viewing a sexual act, we all presumably agree that a crime has occurred. It would seem to strain the bounds of the most radical libertarianism to argue that a group of adults are within their rights to have an orgy on the subway, for example.
Porn is different, it&#8217;s argued, because you only view it if you seek it out. If viewers of porn were not consenting — if internet porn were of such a nature that millions of people were forced to encounter it against their will every year — then it would seem that the argument against prohibition or regulation begins to crumble. Well, I think it has already crumbled because indeed millions of people are exposed to it every year against their will and consent. Those defending the legality of porn seem to be ignoring this group of victims, and I think that is an insurmountable moral and logical flaw in their position.
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Children are first exposed to porn at the age of 11, on average. As we speak right now, there are no doubt millions of minors, some as young as five or six years old, watching adults have sex on the internet. This is an indisputable fact. Does the fact not blow to smithereens the &#8220;consent&#8221; excuse offered by the other side? Our legal system rests on the assumption that minors cannot consent to engage in sexual acts. If an adult has sex with a child, the adult is guilty of rape no matter if the child verbally agreed or not. In our society, we understand that children lack the mental and emotional maturity to make an informed decision in this area. To deny that is to literally defend pedophilia.
Well, if children cannot consent to engage in a sexual act, does it not inevitably follow that they cannot consent to witness such an act? If they cannot consent as a second-party participant, neither can they consent as a third-party participant. Thus, every child who watches porn does so, by definition, without consent. Again: I don&#8217;t see how you can quibble with this argument without also quibbling with the logic for criminalizing pedophilic behavior. I&#8217;m not saying that the people on the opposite side of this issue are trying to legalize pedophilia. I&#8217;m saying that they fail to appreciate how our laws against pedophilia also provide a basis for pornography regulation.
This all means that every &#8220;consenting adult&#8221; who posts hardcore sex videos to the internet does so knowing that children can very easily access and view it. They are putting it, as it were, within reach of the child. If the child reaches for it, who do we blame? Is it the child&#8217;s fault or the fault of the person who put it there? I would argue that every child who has viewed internet pornography is a victim of abuse. And the abuser is the person who posted that content where a child, with no trouble at all, could find it.
Indeed, the internet porn industry makes hundreds of millions of dollars every year on children. Each hit to a site like Pornhub is monetized. If millions of children go on that site — which they do, because there&#8217;s nothing to stop them — then Pornhub profits to the tune of millions on the psychological and sexual abuse of children. If you don&#8217;t think the government has an interest in the common good, broadly speaking, will you admit that it at least has an interest in preventing people from making millions on providing pornography to 12-year-olds?
The obvious dodge here is to lay the onus entirely at the feet of parents. &#8220;It&#8217;s not the pornographer&#8217;s fault,&#8221; critics will respond. &#8220;It&#8217;s up to the parent to stop their kids from seeing this stuff.&#8221; I find this rejoinder to be profoundly lazy. It&#8217;s true that parents should be doing all they can to shield their children from the filth on the internet, but it&#8217;s also true that the internet is so ubiquitous that parents cannot, on their own, do a sufficient job in this regard. Even if the child has no phone and no internet access at home — or, more likely, regulated internet access at home — he can still go almost anywhere else and access the internet dozens of different ways. Short of moving into a cave in the desert, a parent can only provide partial cover. But partial cover, in the end, is only a little better than no cover at all.
Besides, this does nothing to relieve the responsibility of the person posting the content in the first place. Even if every child exposed to porn has ineffectual and inattentive parents (which is most emphatically not the case), that still doesn&#8217;t explain why anyone should have the right to post sex videos on a public forum where children can easily access them. It might be true that some children who are molested could have been saved that trauma had their parents been more vigilant, but that does absolutely nothing at all to excuse the man who did the molesting. The same holds true for pornographers.
The question is this: Do we have a natural human right to post hardcore sex videos online where children can see them? Anyone who says &#8220;yes&#8221; has an extremely confused and hopelessly ambiguous conception of human rights. The rational people who say &#8220;no,&#8221; however, must weigh whether a person&#8217;s privilege to post such content outweighs the right of a child to be free from sexual abuse and trauma.
This does not have to be a deeply philosophical debate about philosophies of governance and so on. This can be much simpler. You do not have a right to expose children to sexually explicit content. Children do have a right to certain basic legal protections. That fact alone, in my view, is enough to settle the argument.

Child Abuse Words on Wooden Blocks

WALSH: Every Child Exposed To Internet Pornography Is An Abuse Victim. There Should Be Laws Protecting Them.

Tragedy struck the Simmons family of Washington State last Friday when their car drove off of a winding road last Friday and down a 200-foot embankment into a wooded area, striking several trees.
Forty-Seven-Year-Old Corey Simmons was killed in the crash, CNN <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2019/12/08/us/4-year-old-girls-escape-deadly-washington-accident/index.html">reported</a>, but his twin 4-year-old girls miraculously survived. The girls were able to unbuckle their car seats and escape the wreckage of the crash. They then climbed the 200-foot embankment back to the road, USA Today <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2019/12/09/twin-4-year-washington-girls-escape-car-crash-killed-father/2628337001/">reported</a>.
Trooper Heather Axtman, a spokesperson for the Washington State Patrol. told the outlet that the twin girls were immediately seen by an unidentified good Samaritan when they reached the side of the road. The Samaritan kept the twins in her car to keep them warm while she called 911 and then waited with the girls until paramedics arrived to take them to the hospital.
The girls received only minor injuries during the crash and were soon reunited with other members of their family.
“I have kids of my own and typically, kids are scared of the dark and the woods,&#8221; Axtman told USA Today. &#8220;They overcame these fears because they knew their dad needed help, and that is so heroic.”
&#8220;This story will stick with me because of the bravery and heroic actions of these little girls,&#8221; she added.
The outlet reported that authorities still do not know what caused the crash. Axtman said it happened in a rural area that was not well lit. Axtman told CNN that the father was not wearing a seatbelt when the car crashed.
KING-TV spoke to the mother of the twins, Esther Crider, who was surprised by what they had done. Crider’s daughter from a previous relationship, Rebecah, said the family wanted to thank the Good Samaritan who helped the twins after the fateful crash.
“We are so incredibly thankful, and we are desperately looking for who she is,&#8221; Rebecah Crider told KING-TV. &#8220;We would love to personally meet her and thank her.”
Axtman, however, said the Good Samaritan did not want to be identified.
The crash happened just a week after the family cut down their own Christmas tree for the first time, Esther told the outlet. She provided KING-TV with a photo of Simmons with the girls from that outing.
A <a href="https://www.gofundme.com/f/corey-simmons-funeral-amp-family-fund?utm_source=customer&amp;utm_medium=copy_link&amp;utm_campaign=p_cp+share-sheet">GoFundMe account</a> has been set up to help the family after Corey’s unexpected and tragic death. So far the family has raised just over $13,000 toward their $18,000 goal.
“An unexpected tragedy has hit our family, leaving a sadness in our hearts,” the GoFundMe page says. “Family, friend and father to 3; 47 year old [sic] Corey Simmons was taken away from us to soon due to a car accident on Friday December 6, 2019.”
The page also says that Simmons was “an amazing father that loved his 3 children and step children,” who was “loud, fun and goofy.”
The page asks for help for the girls and Esther, who was described as “Corey’s Girlfriend/mother of the girls,” because of the loss of Simmons just before Christmas.

County Sheriff

Twin 4-Year-Olds Escape Car Accident That Killed Their Father By Unbuckling Booster Seats And Climbing 200 Feet

A prison staff member is facing disciplinary action after authorizing the strip search of an 8-year-old girl.
The young girl was visiting her father in a Virginia prison when the strip search occurred. Prison protocol stipulates that a legal guardian or parent must authorize such a search, yet the person who accompanied the girl was neither.
&#8220;The incident is deeply troubling and represents a breach in our protocol,&#8221; Lisa Kinney, a spokeswoman for the Virginia Department of Corrections, <a href="https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2019/12/06/us/virginia-minor-strip-search/index.html">told CNN</a> in a statement. &#8220;We sincerely apologize to this child and her family.&#8221;
The incident occurred at Buckingham Correctional Center in Dillwyn, Virginia, last month. CNN reported that, “The staff member who ordered the search didn&#8217;t have the authority to do so and is facing disciplinary action, Kinney said.”
The woman who accompanied the young girl is her father’s girlfriend, <a href="http://redirect.viglink.com/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnation%2F2019%2F12%2F06%2Fvirginia-prison-guards-strip-searched-year-old-girl-visiting-father%2F&amp;key=15785bf48552a1cdfab425661118986f">according to The Washington Post</a>. From the Post:
<blockquote>Diamond Peerman drove 2½ hours the Sunday before Thanksgiving to take her boyfriend’s 8-year-old daughter to visit him at a state prison in Dillwyn, Va.
When a drug-sniffing dog fixated on the pair, a Buckingham Correctional Center guard told them they had to submit to strip-searches or else they could be banned from the prison, Peerman told The Washington Post. The young girl balked at the idea of removing her clothes in front of the uniformed strangers.</blockquote>
Peerman <a href="https://www.pilotonline.com/government/virginia/vp-nw-strip-search-20191206-wd2ejtrtqfgbvkbj7xzh7btemu-story.html">told</a> The Virginian-Pilot after the encounter that she had to explain to the young girl what the prison officials were asking her to do.
“I told her, that means you have to take all of your clothes off or you’re not going to be able to see your dad,&#8221; Peerman told the outlet. “That’s when she started crying.”
Peerman told the Pilot that she made it clear she was not the girl’s legal guardian but the search was authorized anyway.
Afterwards, the Pilot reported, the young girl texted her mother to tell her what happened:
<blockquote>“Hey Mom, am so mad the jail had to strip me with all of my clothes off this doesn’t make no sinc (sic)” the girl texted.
The names of the girl, her mother and father are being withheld by The Virginian-Pilot because she is a minor and because of the trauma she experienced.
“Did they make you take all of your clothes off,&#8221; her mother texted back just before calling her daughter.
“Yes all of my clothes off,&#8221; she responded.</blockquote>
Her mother told the Pilot after the encounter that her daughter was “traumatized” by the incident and has missed school. Prior to the search, the girl already suffered from bipolar disorder, depression, and ADHD, her mother told the outlet.
Virginia Department of Corrections (DOC) policy states, in regards to searches conducted on visitors: “If a visitor refuses to submit to a search, or if a parent or guardian refuses consent for the search of a minor, the individual shall not be searched by force, but shall be denied entry into the facility.”
The Pilot also reported that the drug-sniffing dog actually fixated on Peerman, who asked if the little girl would have to be strip searched as well. Prison officials reportedly told her no at first, but reversed that decision after consulting with a captain.

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An 8-Year-Old Girl Was Strip-Searched While Visiting Her Father In Prison

Virginia

It’s 2019, and people still think it’s okay to sell a child.
In Kentucky, three people were arrested for their involvement in the sale and purchase of a baby, including the mother of the child. Fox News <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/us/three-people-arrested-kentucky-alleged-selling-baby">reported</a> that police received a tip from officials at Parker Bennett Curry Elementary School on Monday that alleged a woman had given away her child. Police interviewed the mother, Maria Domingo Perez about the allegations. Perez, 31 initially gave conflicting statements to police before finally admitting that she had sold her baby to a man and a woman.
Police then spoke with the couple, 45-year-old Pascual Jose Manuel and 37-year-old Catarina Felipe Jose, who said they purchased Domingo Perez’s child for $2,000.
In a press release, the Bowling Green Police Department (BGPD) said social services had taken custody of the baby and also Domingo Perez’s four other children. All three involved in the scheme have been arrested.
“The three are lodged in the Warren County Regional Jail and are charged with Selling/Purchasing Child for Adoption, a class ‘D’ Felony,” the BGPD wrote.
While it’s hard to believe people are still selling their children for profit in 2019, this is the second case in the past few weeks. On November 27, The Miami Herald <a href="https://www.miamiherald.com/news/local/crime/article237751089.html">reported</a> that the Florida Department of Law Enforcement launched an investigation into a Craigslist ad alleging that a newborn baby was for sale for $500. The ad, posted in Kendall, Florida, said a “brand newborn baby” was for sale for $500.
“Baby is 2weeks [sic] old,” the ad said. “It sleeps, don’t make noise at night. Formula and clothes will give to you. Can give you the baby 4 year old [sic] sister for free. I live in a quiet influential neighborhood. I work for department of children and families. I don’t wanna be judged for not wanting these kids.”
The Herald reported that it is unclear whether the post was a “crude hoax” or not, but police interviewed a woman believed to be behind it. She denied any involvement, but authorities are still investigating.
The Herald also recalled the case of Kenia Quiala Bosque, who was arrested eight years ago after she arranged to sell her 8-month-old son. She was charged with a felony adoption violation and convicted, but served just 180 days in jail and lost custody of her children. More from the Herald:
<blockquote>In 2017, a Tennessee man and woman were arrested after police said they tried to <a href="https://www.wbir.com/article/news/crime/couple-charged-with-selling-baby-on-craigslist-face-new-charges/51-425585786">sell their 5-month-old son</a> on Craigslist. Police arranged an undercover sting, and charged them with aggravated child abuse, child neglect and endangerment.
The same year, a Colorado man <a href="https://www.kktv.com/content/news/Sleeping-baby-listed-for-sale-in-Craigslist-ad--463815853.html">apologized for offering his baby</a> for sale for $2,500. He called it a dumb joke. “Healthy white baby for sale cheap. Works fine but leaks out of his eyes occasionally,” the ad read.
Four years ago, a Georgia woman was arrested after <a href="https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2015/12/09/mom-tries-buy-baby-teen-daughter-craigslist/77029768/">posting an ad on Craiglist</a> asking for an unwanted baby — so she could give the child to her 14-year-old daughter.</blockquote>
Update: Breitbart&#8217;s John Binder is <a href="https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2019/12/05/exclusive-woman-accused-of-selling-her-baby-for-2k-is-an-illegal-alien/">reporting</a> Domingo Perez is in the country illegally.

Maria Perez

[Update] Kentucky Mother Arrested After Selling Her Baby For $2,000

A two-month old girl is on life support and expected to die after her mother allegedly punched her in the face and slammed her against the floor.
The mother, Nina Singleton of Chicago, allegedly beat the girl starting shortly after she was born because they girl reminded her of her ex-boyfriend. Assistant Cook County State’s Attorney Christina Dracopoulos said Singleton told the police this is why she beat her baby girl.
“Every time (Singleton) looked at the victim, (she) imagined the ex-boyfriend being there, and that’s why the defendant punched the victim,” Dracopoulos said, as <a href="https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/breaking/ct-mom-charged-child-beating-20191129-zyxp3vwrzbdajmicvbh3j5f3oi-story.html">reported</a> by The Chicago Tribune.
“Singleton admitted to police that she swung the girl over her head by the legs and slammed her onto the tile kitchen floor ‘face first,’ Dracopoulos said,” the Tribune reported. “Though Singleton claimed the incident occurred on Nov. 20, doctors believe it actually happened just hours before the baby was discovered by her father.”
The Chicago Sun-Times <a href="https://chicago.suntimes.com/2019/11/29/20988515/nina-singleton-charged-baby-abused-2-month-old-daughter">reported</a> that Singleton and the baby’s father broke up in October, but he saw the baby regularly and attended her vaccinations on November 18. The outlet reported that the three had dinner after the doctor’s appointment and that he dropped Singleton off with the baby at her apartment. The Sun-Times reported that it was the last time the father was allowed to see the baby, as Singleton began making up excuses for why the father couldn’t visit with his daughter. Singleton would say the girl was sleeping. One time, she claimed the baby was with a friend.
The baby’s father met with Singleton at a Starbucks where he usually was allowed visits with his daughter. On this particular day, Singleton arrived without the baby. After she refused to allow the father to see the baby he became “freaked out” and ran to the mother’s apartment, which was near the coffee shop. He found the baby girl unresponsive in her bassinet, the Tribune reported. More from the Tribune:
<blockquote>The baby was taken to Lurie Children’s Hospital at Northwestern Medical Center, where it was determined she had recently suffered a severe skull fracture, Dracopoulos said.
Doctors also found 10 facial fractures, retinal bleeding and broken bones in her shoulder and leg, Dracopoulos said. Though many of the injuries were fresh, doctors believed the baby “may have been abused since birth,” Dracopoulos said.</blockquote>
Singleton had also admitted to punching the girl in the face when she was just a week or two old.
Bail for Singleton was denied on Friday, and if her daughter dies, she will be charged with murder. She is currently charged with child abuse. Singleton did not appear in court for her bond hearing, as she “was being treated for psychiatric issues Friday at Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center,” the Tribune reported. Once she is released, however, she will go to jail.
Singleton’s reason for beating her daughter brings to mind another <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/woman-murdered-her-three-sons-fearing-they-would-abuse-women-when-they-grew-up">recent case</a> of child abuse, where a British mother, Brittany Renee Pilkington, murdered her three sons over the course of a year, claiming she feared they would grow up to abuse women.

Nina Singleton

Woman Allegedly Beat Her Daughter Nearly To Death Because Child Reminded Her Of Ex-Boyfriend

This week, Wheel of Fortune host Pat Sajak, 73, having taken notice of the unhinged climate alarmists on the Left who have decided to avoid having children in order to save the planet, offered his own hilarious solution for the problem.  Sajak tweeted, “In order to save our planet, I’m asking everyone in America who’s 73-years-old or older to join me in pledging not to have any more children.”
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In order to save our planet, I’m asking everyone in America who’s 73-years-old or older to join me in pledging not to have any more children. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/SignThePledge?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#SignThePledge</a>
&mdash; Pat Sajak (@patsajak) <a href="https://twitter.com/patsajak/status/1198947153655345155?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 25, 2019</a></blockquote>
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Sajak could have taken his pick of leftists who have embraced the idea of zero population growth to save Mother Earth. Just the other day, a 38-year-old man trumpeted his dedication to fighting climate change by doing something unusual: getting a vasectomy. Wes Siler, 38, wrote in <a href="https://www.outsideonline.com/2405491/vasectomy-climate-change">OutsideOnline</a> that once he got engaged to his fiancée in June 2018, he “started planning for the future. It wasn’t just my dog Wiley and me against the world anymore. All of a sudden, I started thinking ten to 20 or more years ahead.”
Siler asked “Is this a world we want to bring kids into? Is this a world it’s responsible to bring kids into?” He noted that he and his fiancée “started talking about something we could do—for ourselves and to make a meaningful impact on the bigger problem. We could just forego the whole kid thing altogether.” He added, “It might not be enough to save the polar bear, and it might not prevent the next Camp Fire, but this is the absolute biggest difference we can make. We need fewer humans, and getting there voluntarily will be an awful lot less painful than doing it with war, famine, and natural disaster.
<a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/scared-environmentalists-womens-group-says-they-hank-berrien">The Daily Wire</a> reported last March that a women’s group in the United Kingdom called Birthstrike, apparently intimidated by reports from climate change activists that the world their children will inherit will be too terrible in which to exist, championed women not having children at all. Blythe Pepino, 33, the founder of Birthstrike, stated, “There are people out there who are so scared about this that they feel they actually can’t have a family. … Our planet is in a kind of collapse; the natural world is collapsing around us and that’s actually happening right now. And I’m so disappointed by the response by authorities to this crisis and so freaked out by it, everything I’ve read, that basically last year I came to the decision that I couldn’t bring a child into that.”
Around the same time, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) <a href="https://www.jpost.com/American-Politics/Ocasio-Cortez-Is-it-okay-to-still-have-kids-in-light-of-climate-change-582150">pontificated</a>, “Our planet is going to hit disaster if we don’t turn this ship around and so it’s basically like, there’s a scientific consensus that the lives of children are going to be very difficult. And it does lead, I think, young people to have a legitimate question, you know, ‘Is it okay to still have children?’”
Sajak has targeted the idiocy of the Left before; in October 2017, in the wake of the plethora of uninformed opinions offered by self-important celebrities in response to the horrific Las Vegas massacre, he tweeted, “OK, let me explain this again: We&#8217;re celebs. We&#8217;re wiser &amp; more empathetic than you. We are famous. Please take our opinions more seriously.”
In June 2019, Sajak issued another succinct, immortal tweet, this time targeting Democrats as he sat suffering through the Democratic presidential debate. He wrote, “This could be worse. It could be a dinner party and I could be there.”
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Leftists: To Save The Planet, Stop Having Children. Pat Sajak Has A Hilarious Suggestion.

Climate Change

Pat Sajak

A new sex-ed curriculum recently instituted in some classrooms in the United Kingdom is one of the most blatant examples of institutionalized child sex abuse that we&#8217;ve seen in the West. As <a href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7490415/Children-young-SIX-given-compulsory-self-touching-lessons.html">the Daily Mail reports</a>, the All About Me program being unveiled in over 240 schools across the country would give very young children &#8220;rules&#8221; for &#8220;touching yourself.&#8221; The Mail offers details about these rules:
<blockquote>Under a section called Touching Myself, teachers are advised to tell children that ‘lots of people like to tickle or stroke themselves as it might feel nice.’ They are also instructed to inform youngsters that this may include touching their ‘private parts’ and, that while some people may say this behaviour is ‘dirty,’ it is in fact ‘very normal.’</blockquote>
It gets worse:
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In the same lesson, children are given scenarios which they must judge to be ‘OK’ or ‘not OK.’
In one, pupils are told that when a girl called Autumn ‘has a bath and is alone she likes to touch herself between her legs. It feels nice.’
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This is for six- and seven-year-olds, remember. Not that it would be any more appropriate for older children.
An <a href="https://www.curdworthprimary.co.uk/our-information/curriculum/all-about-me-sre-programme/">overview</a> of the All About Me program seems to indicate that this lesson plan will be very hands-on, in a literal sense:
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<blockquote>Children will be given the opportunity to explore a variety of diﬀerent touch and feel sensations and allowed to decide which they like and dislike.</blockquote>
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<blockquote>By the end of the lesson, children will understand that just because they like how something feels does not mean that everyone feels the same.</blockquote>
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By year four of the program, things get more specific:
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<blockquote>Children will consider the rules of when it is appropriate to be naked or semi-naked and when it is appropriate to touch themselves, including self-stimulation.</blockquote>
And in year five, the kids will have graduated to discussions about erections and wet dreams:
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<blockquote>Children will be informed of their own personal anatomy and the development of their genitals, including wet dreams, erections, self-stimulation, and menstruation.</blockquote>
A similar program was recently rolled out in <a href="https://www.timeslive.co.za/amp/news/south-africa/2019-10-30-poll-are-grade-4-pupils-ready-to-learn-about-sex-and-masturbation/">South African schools</a>, instructing kids on the wonders of masturbation, anal sex, and oral sex.
And lest you think we are safe from this madness here in the States, our own compulsory sex-ed curricula are not far removed from what&#8217;s described above. A recent &#8220;<a href="https://www.latimes.com/local/lanow/la-me-sex-education-california-20190510-story.html">framework</a>&#8221; for sex education in California features, among other things, graphic descriptions of sodomy and bondage.
What we&#8217;re witnessing here is not a &#8220;slippery slope&#8221; to the normalization of pedophilia. This is pedophilia. There&#8217;s no more slope. We&#8217;ve reached the bottom, which isn&#8217;t to say that we can&#8217;t pull out a shovel and continue our descent. My point is simply that these &#8220;programs&#8221; are a form of widespread, institutionalized child sexual abuse. The administrators who approve this material are predators, and the teachers who teach it are complicit. The &#8220;I&#8217;m just following orders&#8221; excuse rarely gets you off the moral hook, and it certainly doesn&#8217;t in this case.
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But we should not be surprised by this. It is the inevitable consequence of allowing public schools to teach &#8220;sex-ed&#8221; in the first place. There is, it turns out, no non-creepy way for schools to handle the topic. There is no approach that isn&#8217;t at least inappropriate, and at worst abuse. That&#8217;s because schools have no business delivering lectures on sexuality, no matter what is being said about it. By broaching the subject, they are already treading on ground where they don&#8217;t belong. It&#8217;s no wonder that they marched all the way to this point.
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As far as schools are concerned, sex should be a purely scientific subject. Teach the kids about anatomy. Teach them where babies come from. Teach them the facts of human reproduction. That&#8217;s it. The children don&#8217;t need to hear, and should not hear, the teacher&#8217;s personal views on what kind of touching is appropriate, and what sort of sex positions are enjoyable, and &#8220;when it is appropriate to be naked or semi-naked,&#8221; whether our cultural attitudes towards sexuality are repressive, and so on. None of that constitutes objective scientific information. It is, at best, the subjective view point of the person who came up with the lesson plan. And subjective view points about sexuality have no place — at all — in a school.
This is not a pitch for &#8220;abstinence education.&#8221; Abstinence programs are certainly less creepy and less morally fraught than some of this other stuff, but I don&#8217;t want my child&#8217;s teacher to give him tips on how to avoid having sex any more than I want her giving tips on how to have it. It&#8217;s simply none of her business, either way. She is an unwelcome intruder. Just because I send my kids to school to learn the ABCs and 123s doesn&#8217;t mean I also want them to be indoctrinated into Mrs. Wilson&#8217;s personal philosophy on human sexuality. Actually I don&#8217;t send my kids to school at all — we homeschool — but the point stands.
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If it would be considered a gross infringement for a teacher to stand up and proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ in the middle of algebra class, why is it any less of a gross infringement for a teacher to proclaim the Gospel of Sexual Enlightenment — the Gospel of Freud, basically — in the middle of health class? You might argue that schools &#8220;have to teach it&#8221; because parents refuse to do it themselves. But where does that end? There are many ethical, moral, and spiritual lessons that parents often fail to impart to their children. Should schools then become churches, daycare centers, therapists, spiritual gurus, and sex coaches all rolled into one, just to compensate for lackadaisical parenting? Schools don&#8217;t automatically inherit the right to teach whatever a parent doesn&#8217;t teach.
Besides, parents might &#8220;refuse&#8221; to teach their children how to masturbate because they, as parents, feel (rightly) that such a lesson would be extremely bizarre and inappropriate, and probably warranting a visit from CPS. It might be a teacher&#8217;s opinion that parents should teach those things, but her opinion is irrelevant. It&#8217;s also, in this case, insane. That&#8217;s why schools should stick to the academic basics. Reading, writing, arithmetic, etc. It is not their job, or their right, to go beyond that.
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WALSH: Sex-Ed Program Teaches Six-Year-Olds How To ‘Self-Stimulate.’ This Is Why Sex-Ed Should Be Abolished.

Education

England

Great Britain

In the age of #MeToo and Harvey Weinstein, it is hard to conceive why any school district would think requiring teenage girls to meditate on a song normalizing sexting would be acceptable. Yet, that’s precisely what led to the abuse of Skylar Cason’s religious conscience at Steamboat Springs High School in Colorado.
The class is “Music Literature.” Ostensibly to test the boundaries of appropriateness, Skylar’s teacher passed out an infamous poem from the 1950s, “Howl” by Allen Ginsberg. The poem’s history is plagued with criticism and accusations of indecency and obscenity. Once the subject of an obscenity trial, a court at length determined that the book-length poem failed to meet the legal definition of obscenity. Many today still debate its place as one of the 20th century’s great works of literature.
The Steamboat Springs School District approved the use of the poem in class, but only by using a copy that left blanks where some of the most lewd, vulgar, and obscene terms appeared. These are no mere cuss words. Not even George Carlin would use these dirty words; much less so should a teacher say them in the presence of 16-year-old girls. Words like: “c*nt” and “c*ck” and phrases like “f**ked in the a**.” Much of the rest of the content left uncensored by the publisher involves graphic and violent sexual depictions of the most debased sort.
But Skylar&#8217;s teacher despised the book’s omissions. He told the class to listen as he read the poem aloud, then required his underage students to fill in the blanks with the missing terms. So, as he read, emphasizing each “c*ck” and “f*ck,” teenage girls scrawled the uncensored words — many for the first time having ever heard such words.
Making matters worse, neither Skylar nor her parents received any warning of what she was going to hear, read, and then be coerced to write. School policy permits the teaching of “controversial materials,” but only after receiving parental permission. Such a policy not only protects the teacher, but demonstrates respect for parents who are in charge of the education of their children while also ensuring that a student’s religious conscience is protected. Had they been warned, Skylar’s parents would’ve protected their daughter and asked for an alternative assignment.
They only discovered the situation when Skylar came down from her room after listening to a Spotify list her teacher had assembled for homework. She was to contrast “Howl” with the song, “Psst, Teenagers Take Off Your Clo” by Carseat Headrest. The song not only glorifies sexting, but ends with the singer declaring, “I got your soul now, I got your clothes,” reminiscent of the type of control through sexual dominance that wiped Harvey Weinstein out of Hollywood.
Skylar’s parents complained, but the school district has held its ground. It refused to remove the poem from the curriculum and imposed no disciplinary action upon the teacher. Only after <a href="https://firstliberty.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/SSSD-Cason-Letter-11-18-19-FNL-Redacted.pdf">First Liberty Institute sent the school a demand letter</a> and the news of the situation made international headlines did the district begin to admit that its teachers may not fully understand their policy.
Students should never feel shame and guilt as a part of an assignment at school, and teachers should never violate the religious conscience of their students in class assignments. Avoiding these feelings is the very reason this school district has a policy of involving parents in the discussion of controversial materials.
School districts around the country routinely take far too many liberties with students. Whether they claim sordid poetry like “Howl” serve an important pedagogical purpose or woke administrators involve graphic discussions of sexuality to appease politically motivated special interest groups, parents are often intentionally left in the dark. This not only offends the proper role of parents in the education of their children — the “liberty of parents and guardians to direct the upbringing and education of children,” as the Supreme Court of the United States explained in Wisconsin v. Yoder — but it can also permanently scar students.
In their professional zeal, school officials leave behind a wake filled with young women like Skylar, shaken and disturbed by a 26-year-old male teacher erasing an innocence that he had no business removing. Worse, all the years of effort in instruction, prayer, and direction by Skylar’s parents to inform her religious conscience were permanently stained by the Steamboat Springs School District. For what? A lesson on “Music Literature.”
Let Skylar’s situation be a lesson to school officials (and parents) everywhere: Teachers and administrators have a responsibility to work with parents to make sure their instruction respects the values, religious liberty, and rights of conscience of their students.
 
Jeremy Dys (<a href="http://twitter.com/jeremydys">@JeremyDys</a>) is Special Counsel for Litigation and Communications for First Liberty Institute, a non-profit law firm dedicated to defending religious freedom for all Americans. Read more at <a href="http://firstliberty.org/">FirstLiberty.org</a>.

Steamboat Springs, Colorado

DYS: Public Schools Cannot Trample Over Students&#8217; Religious Consciences

Colorado

Religion

Teenagers

Shaftesbury Kids, a division of the Canadian production company Shaftesbury Films, has produced a series of sex education videos for children titled “Sex-Ed School” that have outraged parents. The videos show classrooms of young children discussing such issues as transgenderism and masturbation with instructors.
The <a href="https://sexedschool.ca/">website</a> for the series states:
<blockquote>Sex-Ed School is an entertaining and educational YouTube series about sexuality and healthy relationships for youth, ages 9-12. Each episode features two expert hosts, Nadine and Eva, leading a respectful and authentic dialogue on sexual health, and guiding participants through fun and thought-provoking activities about specific topics.</blockquote>
<a href="https://www1.cbn.com/cbnnews/world/2019/november/shocking-sex-ed-videos-indoctrinate-young-children-with-drag-queens-and-explicit-sex-advice">CBN</a> notes,  “They feature Nadine Thornhill, who is described as ‘one of Canada’s foremost experts on child and adolescent sexuality’ and Eva Bloom, a ‘sex research and online sexuality educator.’”
Examples that precipitated outrage:
<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TPBpnZTfJQ&amp;feature=emb_logo">Episode Four</a>, titled “Gender,” is <a href="https://sexedschool.ca/episodes">described this way</a>:
<blockquote>Gender expression is how a person chooses to express themselves, while gender is how they feel on the inside. Eva and Nadine discuss pronouns and the kids learn more about what gender is all about. We meet Kaleb, a trans man who shares his gender journey during a fun and informative Q and A. As well, the kids play a game of musical-chairs-with-a-twist to learn more about how everyone can feel comfortable expressing who they are.</blockquote>
As CBN notes, in that episode, the educators play “true or false” with the children. One asks the children, “Everyone born with a vulva is a girl, true for false?” Most, but not all, of the children reply, “True,” leaving the teacher the opportunity to instruct, “Not everybody is sure, and that makes sense. Our genitals actually don’t determine our gender. Some people born with vulvas can be boys.”
Kaleb tells his life story, including this passage: “For me, in my daily life, I was a girl. But then when I went on stage and I wanted to perform, I was male and I used he/him pronouns.” Kaleb segues to hormone injections, saying, “It changed my voice a bit and changes your body a little bit. …  I basically went through a second puberty when I was in my 20’s. …  I have to take [the hormone injection] … every week … I did have my breasts removed. I have scars on my chest. I really only talk about kind of what’s in my pants if people are getting in there.”
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More: in the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=347&amp;v=os5GWfpJxng&amp;feature=emb_logo">video called “Love is Love</a>”, the instructors discuss masturbation with the children, describing it as “self-love,” and asking about “things that can happen when you masturbate since some people consider masturbation a form of self-love.” One girl asks, “What does masturbate mean?” Instructor: “It’s basically when you touch yourself for sexual pleasure …  touching your genitals in a way that feels good.” Further, “you can make yourself feel good on your own so you don’t need to have sex with someone else.”
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A third example: an <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=214&amp;v=SHBvQPzTwJs&amp;feature=emb_logo">episode titled “Orientation</a>,” which the website describes thus: “Local Drag Queens, Fay Slift and Fluffy Soufflé drop by for a delightfully candid discussion about all things orientation from their POV. The kids learn more about LGBTQ2+ and pose some very interesting questions for Fay and Fluffy.”
In that episode, a bearded man wearing an orange wig, a dress, and elbow-high pink gloves addresses the children seated on the floor in front of him and states, “Hi, I’m ‘Fay Slift’ and I use the pronouns she/her, and I’m queer-identified.” The other drag queen, Fluffy,” wearing a purple wig and a dress, adds, “I’m Fluffy Souffle; I use they/them, cause I’m a non-binary performer, and I also identify as queer.”
Fluffy asks Fay, “What does queer mean to you?” Fay answers, “For me it means limitless potential; it could be whatever it is that I feel or want to be.”
One young boy asks, “How do you teach somebody to be gay?” Fluffy answers, “Well, if it’s somebody who is gay that is like ‘I want to learn what gayness is,’ there’s the internet for that.”
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Sex Education

WATCH: Disturbing Sex-Ed Videos Show Young Kids Instructed On Masturbation, Transgenderism

Former Rep. Katie Hill (D-CA) suggested on Thursday that if Americans care about the safety of children, then they need to vote for Democratic candidates so that they can pass a host of gun control legislation.
&#8220;You feel, I think, as a freshman especially just coming in, you feel this sense of powerlessness, like, we&#8217;ve done our part, what else can we do right now? And to me it just says with complete and utter clarity, we don&#8217;t have a choice but to flip the Senate and to get somebody in the White House who is going to make this a priority,&#8221; Hill told CNN&#8217;s Anderson Cooper. &#8220;So, regardless of your other political beliefs, if you think that the safety of our kids matter, then that&#8217;s to me what needs to get you to the polls.&#8221;
Hill&#8217;s remarks were in reference to the news of a school shooting that was happening at the time in Santa Clarita, California. As Hill talked to Cooper, the incident was still occurring and little details had been released by authorities, including who the shooter was, the motivation behind the spree, or how the firearm in question was obtained.
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&#8220;It&#8217;s your worst nightmare. I mean, every single member of Congress,&#8221; Hill said. &#8220;I think, it&#8217;s constantly in the back of their head of whether something like that is going to happen in your home district because it&#8217;s the worst thing that could happen.&#8221;
&#8220;And I think one of the hardest parts about it is that, you know, what are we supposed to say at this point?&#8221; she continued. &#8220;We have passed background checks, we have passed four different pieces of legislation that would make an immediate impact on reducing gun violence. And it&#8217;s just sitting on [Senate Majority Leader] Mitch McConnell&#8217;s desk.&#8221;
Accordingly, the Democrat-led House passed a host of anti-Second Amendment bills that subsequently stalled in the Senate. The legislation includes enacting universal background checks and so-called &#8220;red flag&#8221; laws, which allow for temporary gun confiscation for individuals deemed a danger to oneself or to others.
Once considered a rising star of the party, the former California congresswoman announced her resignation from Congress in October amid an ethics probe into allegations that she had an affair with her congressional staffer, in violation of House rules. Despite published text messages, Hill denied the relationship, but subsequently admitted to a relationship with a campaign staffer.
However, Hill, many of her Democratic colleagues, and members of the media have portrayed the ex-freshman lawmaker as a victim of so-called &#8220;revenge porn&#8221; and sexist double standards for a slew of private photographs that were widely circulated after the story of her affair emerged.
Hill revealed on Wednesday that she was &#8220;starting to resurface&#8221; following her fall from grace, and state that she might &#8220;be a little bit more unfiltered&#8221; now that she is no longer an elected official. Her interview with CNN regarding the alleged school shooting was her first public appearance since she left Washington, D.C. in disgrace.

U.S. Representative Katie Hill (D-CA) speaking at the Ignite

WATCH: Katie Hill Suggests Americans Should Vote Democrat If They Care About Children

Anderson Cooper

Katie Hill

The cultural Left&#8217;s ongoing battle to sexualize children and <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/hammer-using-children-advance-your-political-josh-hammer">deprive them of their innocence</a> is now raging in the Old Dominion.
On <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PriscillaForFairfax/photos/a.111043596987758/120923609333090/?type=3&amp;theater">Facebook</a>, Fairfax County, Virginia School Board candidate Priscilla DeStefano sounded the alarm on the news that, unless parents opt out, children in the County would be mandated to take the <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/resources/student-safety-and-wellness/youth-survey?fbclid=IwAR0jUGUdnGQ-n8iApPZVbVQbzSeqScimslGRCt8Ozig25zIPPpdwLiPAa2I">Fairfax County Youth Survey</a>. Lest that survey sound innocent enough, DeStefano highlighted how the questionnaire would reportedly grill children as young as eighth grade on whether they are sexually active, have engaged in oral sex, and how many sexual partners they have had. It would also reportedly probe children as young as sixth grade about whether they smoke marijuana or drink alcohol.
&#8220;Starting this week, 6th, 8th, 10th &amp; 12th graders will be given the Youth Survey unless you OPT THEM OUT!,&#8221; DeStefano <a href="https://www.facebook.com/PriscillaForFairfax/photos/a.111043596987758/120923609333090/?type=3&amp;theater">warned</a>. &#8220;The 6th grade survey asks about drug use, like if they’ve ever huffed aerosols to get high; please look through it to see if you are comfortable with your 11/12 year being asked the 84 questions in the survey,&#8221; she continued.
DeStefano then noted how the Fairfax County Youth Survey is even more intrusive for older students in the county&#8217;s public school system: &#8220;The 8th, 10th &amp; 12th graders are asked much worse questions like if they’ve ever used heroin or LSD, their prescription drug use, and their sexual activity — like if they use condoms, if they’ve had oral sex, and how many sexual partners they’ve had.&#8221;
In total, the survey for 8th, 10th, and 12th graders has 174 questions — quite the rigorous inspection of children as young as sixth grade. At least opt-out forms are available on the Fairfax County Public Schools <a href="https://www.fcps.edu/resources/student-safety-and-wellness/youth-survey?fbclid=IwAR0jUGUdnGQ-n8iApPZVbVQbzSeqScimslGRCt8Ozig25zIPPpdwLiPAa2I">website</a> in each of English, Arabic, Chinese, Farsi, Korean, Spanish, Urdu, and Vietnamese.
Many of those commenting on DeStefano&#8217;s Facebook post expressed shock, disgust, or outrage.
&#8220;My request is to continue this fight and to hold the recently elected accountable!!,&#8221; commented one. &#8220;This is the beginning in my opinion. We must stay vocal and active and not allow the degradation of our society to happen without a fight. If all the candidates who did not get elected can form an alliance and network or action league we can remain in their faces. I know that our priorities are family. We now know that their priorities are breaking up of family and all holy beliefs and traditions.&#8221;
Another user observed how this activity seems to her to be nothing new: &#8220;This is, unfortunately, nothing new. I graduated high school in Oregon in 2000 and I recall a survey very similar to this given my freshman or sophomore year.&#8221;
A <a href="https://abc11.com/4506227/?fbclid=IwAR1gtHMK9zedbmm5v_0ltILr-mpToBotXhEvdjt0AQ6SrBYUtyucpqZBfAY">similar story</a> unfolded last month in North Carolina, when a survey given out to local sixth graders inquired about the students&#8217; sexual orientation. Local ABC affiliate ABC 11 <a href="https://abc11.com/4506227/?fbclid=IwAR1gtHMK9zedbmm5v_0ltILr-mpToBotXhEvdjt0AQ6SrBYUtyucpqZBfAY">reported</a>:
<blockquote>The mother of a Terrell Lane sixth-grader is upset after a survey given to her son included a question asking about his sexual orientation.
&#8220;Why are you asking 11-year olds these questions?&#8221; asked Connie Jo Hutchinson.
The program is called Shifting Boundaries, which is funded through a federal grant. In the survey handed out to students, the sixth question asks &#8220;What is your sexual orientation?&#8221;
It lists 10 possible options: Bisexual, Gay, Fluid, Heterosexual, Lesbian, Pansexual, Queer, Questioning, Prefer not to disclose, and Self-identify.</blockquote>

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