OPINION:
Last week, in this column, I wrote that it is an irrefutable fact that our nation’s educational establishment is aggressively and intentionally working to groom your children. I argued that public schools across the country are targeting your sons and daughters, at their youngest ages, with a sexually explicit curriculum that encourages physically dangerous and morally bereft behavior as early as elementary and preschool.
To make my case, I cited specific stories such as Chicago’s public schools, where they now make condoms available to all 10-year-old students across the district. I mentioned New York City’s Justine Ang Fonte, who openly boasts of teaching first graders (6-year-olds!) how to masturbate. I highlighted Oklahoma State University’s promotion of drag queen story hours for children between the ages of 2 and 8. And I wrote of the Arizona Department of Education’s claim that babies as young as three months old need the “state’s intervention” to correct their “sexual biases.”
I concluded by reminding you that those pushing this garbage on your kids have publicly bragged that they intend to “convert your children” and that they have even written songs about it! And, I suggested that maybe — just maybe — we should start believing them.
My implicit point was this: It’s time for us and our elected leaders to stand up to these child predators and tell them to stop!
Enter stage right, Arizona’s state House representative, Jake Hoffman, who is the sponsor of the Arizona House Bill 2495. It is rare these days to see such courage, conviction and clarity. This man deserves a standing ovation.
In the face of all the child abuse cited above and the nonsense being ventured on Arizona’s children at the hands of Arizona’s public education cabal, Mr. Hoffman says the following:
There is nothing more sacred than the innocence of a child. Yet today (and increasingly over the last 20 years), government-run schools have adopted a curriculum designed to sexualize our children, beginning as young as kindergarten. Arizona House Bill 2495 will stop this radical agenda dead in its tracks by prohibiting Arizona schools from using sexually explicit material or referring students to the same in any manner without parental consent.
“Right now, in Arizona, children are directed to resources such as music videos and cartoon illustrations that glorify sexual promiscuity. This material includes online articles entitled: ‘It’s okay to have sex with many people,’ ‘How to view porn’ and ‘Dry humping saves lives,’ along with literally hundreds of other equally disturbing examples.”
“Children as young as fourth grade (9-year-olds) are being forced to participate in lesson plans that include illustrated depictions of young teenagers engaged in masturbation and sexual intercourse”
“In fact, to show you these images in these committee hearings, I had to seek permission from the Arizona Department of Public Safety (DPS) to ensure that I was not violating Arizona’s criminal code.”
“When attempting to view one of the online videos shown to 11-year-olds, I received three separate “explicit material” warnings by YouTube before I could proceed to access the material in question.”
“Our public education system appears to be dead set on overseeing the degradation of our families and cultural integrity.”
“Our schools should be focused on teaching reading, writing, science, history, and arithmetic, not the sexual grooming of our children.”
“Parents and elected officials must lock arms and act to protect our children. This threat is arguably the most existential of them all. Should we remain passive, we will not merely be losing our country; we will be complicit in allowing our children’s destruction.”
“We must defeat this disgusting, destructive child sexualization in its tracks. Arizona House Bill 2495 is the most comprehensive legislation in the country to do that. Failure cannot be an option.”
“As Bonhoeffer said, ‘Silence in the face of evil is itself evil: God will not hold us guiltless. Not to speak is to speak. Not to act is to act.’”
Three cheers for Mr. Hoffman! His bill is very simple and clear. What parent in their right mind would oppose it?
With strength and conviction, Mr. Hoffman has simply written a bill that says illicit sexual material should not be taught in our schools regardless of the student’s age. It further clarifies that any time a teacher wants to assign anything — classical literature or otherwise, that includes sexual content, the teacher must seek and receive parental consent to do so.
Thank you, Mr. Hoffman! This is leadership. This is courage. This is the way civilized people used to think and behave. May your tribe increase one hundred-fold!
• Everett Piper (dreverettpiper.com, @dreverettpiper), a columnist for The Washington Times, is a former university president and radio host. He is the author of “Not a Daycare: The Devastating Consequences of Abandoning Truth” (Regnery).
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