DIVERSITY - Using Our Children To Create Chaos, Destroy The Family, Church, And The Republic : 'The Book' - VOLUME III, CHAPTER 1: THE BATTLE FIELD OF THE DIVERSITY WAR
In The Blue Corner We Have The Federal Government, Corporate America, 17 States And The District Of Columbia, And The National Education Association. In The Red Corner, America's Parents.
NOTA BENE: Only the title has been changed to be consistent with Volumes I and II.
The state of California and its governor, Gavin Newsom have appointed themselves the wards of your children and you have nothing to say about it.
On January 1, 2023 California SB 107, Gender-affirming health care became law making California a “transgender sanctuary state”. This new law passed by 13 Democrat senators and not a single Republican, prevents a parent from stopping their child from receiving “gender affirming health care” if that child has traveled from a state in which such procedures and treatments are illegal. No subpoena from that “foreign” state or writ to prevent such “care” from the child’s parents shall be recognized by the state of California. Further, the “affirming health care” providers are prevented from releasing any medical information in response to any subpoena or criminal or civil action.
If your child is insistent on receiving “gender affirming care” all they have to do is get to California — with or without you permission. Once they cross the state line for the purpose of receiving “gender affirming care” your child is no longer subject to your parental authority or to the laws of the state of the child’s legal residence. So sayeth the State of California.
California is not the only state or jurisdiction which ignores parental authority over their children when it comes to “transgender affirming care”. In Massachusetts, U.S. District Court Judge Mark Mastroianni ruled that a school that intentionally hides a child’s efforts to “transition” from that child’s parents does not “shock the conscience” and, therefore, a suit brought by the parents of an 11year old girl and a 12 year old boy against their school was dismissed.
The parents argued that the staff of the Paul R. Baird Middle School as well as members of an elected school committee and the town of Ludlow, MA all “impermissibly inserted themselves into the private realm” of parents dominion over their children and their “rights too make decisions regarding their children’s upbringing, mental health, and well being”.
In Volume I, Chapter 6: In Loco parentis. In Loco Deus. I wrote:
”Imagine a teenager filled with hormone driven, teenage angst being told that their angst is the result of a gender “miss assignment” at birth but that it can be easily corrected through “gender affirming” surgeries, hormone blockers, and hormone replacement therapy. Now — imagine that same perversion of Biblical and human biology being taught to a five year old child.
The very worst part of all of this is that these children are being told that their parents don’t need to be involved in the process and, in fact, it would be best if their parents weren’t told that while they are at school Robert becomes known as Roberta and has free access to the girls restroom.
In one fell swoop these “educators” (and some clergy) have replaced family and God with each child’s own understanding of family and the notion that God got it wrong.”
Mark Mastroianni has made it clear that the federal government, municipalities, and local schools have primacy over your children who, in his mind, have achieved adulthood due to a law in “…Massachusetts that prevents school officials from discriminating against students on the basis of gender identity.” Further, Mastroianni’s logic dictates that children are more informed and capable of making such decisions than their parents are and, therefore, schools must conform to the whims of students to the detriment of the family.
But it doesn’t stop at the states.
Our federal tax dollars are now being allocated to promote, support, and encourage transgenderism among our children in schools that we also support with our state and local tax dollars.
The recently passed $1.7 T bipartisan omnibus spending bill contains the following provisions:
$1.2 M to San Diego Community College for “centers to support LGBTstudents”.
$105,000 for a mentoring programs for LGBT youth in the greater Pittsburg area.
$523,345 for Compass LGBT Youth and Social Services Programming.
Additionally, the Department of State’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights and Labor (DRL) is offering $1.5 million in grants through its Global Equity Fund (GEF). The stated purpose of the GEF is to provide:
”… emergency assistance to human rights defenders and human rights programming support to grassroots LGBTQI+ organizations to catalyze positive change and draws its strength from the support and partnership of an international coalition of like-minded governments, businesses, and foundations.”
The purpose of the distribution of the $1.5M in tax dollars is to empower "local movements" that are addressing "critical issues of justice" according to a funding opportunity notice:
“DRL welcomes applications from U.S.-based and foreign-based non-profit organizations/nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and public international organizations; private, public, or state institutions of higher education; and for-profit organizations or businesses. DRL’s preference is to work with non-profit entities; however, there may be some occasions when a for-profit entity is best suited.”
The GEF has a large network of partners including:
”Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, Italy, Montenegro, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Uruguay, the Arcus Foundation, the John D. Evans Foundation, FRI: the Norwegian Organization for Sexual and Gender Diversity, the MAC AIDS Fund, Deloitte LLP, Royal Bank of Canada, Hilton, Bloomberg L.P., Marriott International, the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the Human Rights Campaign, and Out Leadership.”
The purpose of OutLeadership is to convince global enterprises of the value of having LGBTQ+ personnel placed throughout their business, from entry level to the C-Suite, OutLeadership is there to help them: “Because equality drives business, and business drives equality.”
Nice slogan - content free but it sounds really good, particularly to the 100 or so global corporations with whom OutLeadership partners.
Here is what Todd Sears, founder of OutLeadership said about the role of LBGTQ+ ideology in business:
“ For me, it’s business first, and business as a vehicle to achieve social justice and civil rights. I think if you focus on it that way, it makes it a sustainable argument. When people say, ‘Oh, it’s the right thing to do’, I say that’s great, but when markets are down—corporations are for-profit entities, and they’ll only do the ‘right thing to do’ when they’re flush with cash. But they’ll [always] do the right thing…if it’s core to their business. So if you make LGBT inclusion, or inclusion of women or people of color, core to something that’s business-relevant, then they’ll always do it.”
But here is Mr. Sears problem; social justice is contrived and civil rights are a legal issue covered by the US Constitution and the laws that emanate from it. The left in America is fond of labels and when existing language doesn't suit their goal they change the definitions. Justice is no longer enough. It must be parsed. Justice must now be addressed as an environmental issue, a social issue, a gender issue. The all inclusive statement that “all men are created equal” simply doesn’t advance the recognition of their causes. And now that extends to pushing LGBTQ+ issues onto children.
And so it comes as no surprise that General Motors, the automaker essentially owned by the federal government, has partnered with GLSEN and is supporting the LGBTQ+’s promotion of transgenderism in k-12 by donating to the organization’s Rainbow Library which provides books on LGBTQ+ school libraries free of charge and without review by or the consent of parents.
For those of you who have slogged through Volumes I and II you may remember that the Chairman of the GLSEN Board of Directors is Ricio Inclan who is also the Senior Director, National Education Association (NEA), the nation’a largest and most powerful labor union. The binding thread of LGBTQ+ ideology throughd the federal government, corporate America, and America’s teachers is clear.
However,there is opposition to the attempt by the LBGTQ+ community’s lure the nation’s children into a perverted, unscientific ideology of sex and sexuality as early in their life as they possibly can.
In March 2022 Florida Governor Ron DeSantis signed The Florida Parental Rights Act which is specifically intended to prevent in appropriate teaching of gender and sexuality or provision the of health services in K-3 without parental knowledge or permission.
A brief aside. Our Republic has long recognized the difference between state and federal jurisdiction and authority. The Tenth Amendment of our Constitution makes it clear that in the absence of federal law the states are free to enact any legislation that they see fit to enact as long as it does not violate the constitutional rights of its citizens. The good people of Florida through their elected representatives had every right to pass the Florida Parental Rights Act to ensure their dominion over their children between the ages of 5 and 18 years. And so they did.
That law is now being opposed by a group called Equality Florida. According to their web site: “Equality Florida is the largest civil rights organization dedicated to securing full equality for Florida's lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer (LGBTQ) community.”
The Equality Florida Team consists of 34 individuals — three of whom have children. The Equality Florida Board consists of 13 individuals — one of whom has a child. Yet these 47 people 43 of whom have never raised a child want to tell the 22,000,000 people of Florida how children should be raised and educated. But don’t worry, they’re not alone. Here are the Equality Florida sponsors:
And their law suit? An amicus brief has been filed by the Attorneys General from 17 democrat run states and the District of Columbia. The states include CA, CO, CN, DE, HI,IL, MA, MD, ME, MI, MN, NJ, NY, OR, RI, and WA.
In signing on to the amicus brief Michigan, AG Dana Nessel’s office offered this statement;
“One of the most important issues surrounding the education of our kids is making them feel seen, protected, and appreciated….“That was not the motivation of this law. The intent and effect of this law is to exacerbate any feelings of otherness that LGBTQ+ students and LGBTQ+ teachers may hold, as well as isolate them from their peers.
If the goal of this law had been to limit inappropriate content in classrooms, its language is much too broad and vague to do so in any meaningful way. I proudly stand with my colleagues in opposing this exclusionary law and I will do everything in my power to ensure that similar legislation does not come to Michigan.”
Again the Florida law is directed at protecting children 5 to 8 years of age from the ideology of adult members of the LBGTQ+ community and leaving that conversation up to their parents. What happens in Florida has no effect on the laws of Michigan.
The rhetoric of Maura Healey, the Attorney General of Massachusetts is even more extreme:
“Florida’s hate-fueled law is the censorship of LGTBQ+ issues at a time when school communities should be creating an educational environment that is inclusive of everyone,” Healey said. “With my colleagues across the country, we are asking the court to put an end to this radical policy and protect LGBTQ+ young people and their families from further harm.”
First, the Florida law does not censor “LGBTQ+ issues” it simply allows the parents of 5-8 year olds to decide if they want their children exposed to “LGBTQ+ issues”.
The notion that parents have dominion over their children is not a radical idea. However, the notion that an adult who has never raised a child or an adult who lives in another state should exercise such dominion is indeed radical and wrong.
5See, I have taught you decrees and laws as the LORD my God commanded me, so that you may follow them in the land you are entering to take possession of it. 6Observe them carefully, for this will show your wisdom and understanding to the nations, who will hear about all these decrees and say, “Surely this great nation is a wise and understanding people.” 7What other nation is so great as to have their gods near them the way the LORD our God is near us whenever we pray to him?
8And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws as this body of laws I am setting before you today? 9Only be careful, and watch yourselves closely so that you do not forget the things your eyes have seen or let them fade from your heart as long as you live. Teach them to your children and to their children after them. Deuteronomy 4:5-9
Union, Kentucky
10 January 2023