The Next Wonderful Plan for Public Schools--”Gender Liberation”

By Al Benson Jr. A few years back now I wrote an article for http://albensonjr.com about a news item that had appeared on WorldNetDaily. It concerned a public school in Des Moines, Iowa that allowed and promoted some event they called a “gender-bender” in which students all participated in cross-dressing. The event caused a ruckus that caused many families to finally abandon the propaganda factories that pretend to be public schools. I noted in my article one mother who commented after her kids were removed safely from the clutches of public “education” that as many as 200 families had filed the necessary paperwork to remove their kids from area public schools in the area. How parochial of them not to want the public schools teaching their sons to wear dresses--what was wrong with them? Definitely out of the main stream! Now a few years later the other shoe has finally dropped. You thought it couldn’t get any worse than cross-dressing? Folks, you ain’t seen nothing’ yet. It seems that the California Teachers Association has an agenda planned for the kids in that state that will make cross-dressing look downright tame. Attorney Robert Tyler represents both parents and students in a number of cases in California. Again, WorldNetDaily has warned parents, not only in California but across the country about this--because if they make it stick in California it’s only a matter of time before it’s tried elsewhere. If its part of the public school agenda it is not meant for only one state but will be pushed nationwide once the guinea pig-state has accepted it. The California Teachers Association is one of the largest unions in California with around 325,000 members. It was started in 1863, while Lincoln’s European shock troops were pillaging the Confederate States so it’s been around for awhile. And it is affiliated with--guess who?--the National Education Association. That name ring any bells? The article, which appeared on http://www.wnd.com on January 2nd warned that: “A key attorney in the fight for Christian and family values in California’s trend-setting school system warns his state’s teacher’s union is about to begin its ‘next major push’ in the cultural battle over homosexuality in schools. ‘Gender liberation’ will likely be the new vogue term used to describe the tidal wave that is fast approaching the shores of the California public school system.” Tyler explains what “gender liberation” means: “male-female distinctions must be eliminated in order to ‘liberate’ children from unnecessary ‘stereotypes.’ This is not a movement seeking equal rights, but a movement seeking to obliterate our God-given distinctions between male and female.” Tyler observes that the 325,000 member California Teachers Association “ has allied itself with radical homosexual activists and says he has uncovered evidence of how the CTA is pushing teachers to take the next step in ‘brainwash(ing) children into believing that gender neutrality is ideal for society.” Last October the CTA hosted its third annual Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Conference under the theme ‘Pride in Education’.” It seems that Tyler has seen some of the literature that has been distributed to public school teachers at the conference that deals with “proper gender etiquette” in schools. Some of it reads: “One way to acknowledge the needs of all people is to designate restrooms as gender neutral…Each of us can decide for ourselves in which bathroom we belong.” And here’s another little gem. “Please do not assume anyone’s gender, even people you may have met in the past. A person’s external appearance may not match their internal gender identity.” This is a small sample of what your kids are or will be getting in public schools. And the teachers union hasn’t neglected the state legislature either. State Senator Mark Leno from San Francisco (where else?) is the author of the newly signed SB 48, the Fair Education Act. This went into effect in California on New Years Day while everyone sat watching the bowl games. It mandates that all children, from kindergarten right through grade 12, in all instruction, “be taught to admire the role and contributions of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender Americans.” The WorldNetDaily article also notes “Furthermore, they claim, parents will neither be notified of the teaching requirements nor allowed to opt their children out of such indoctrination.” In other words your kids will get this garbage whether you want them to or not--no exceptions! Where do you think your kids will be after twelve years of this kind of indoctrination? Want to take a wild guess? Randy Thomasson, who is president of SaveCalifornia.com has said that SB 48 is merely the latest California law “…mandating the homosexual-bisexual-transsexual agenda--as well as heterosexual fornication--in every government school in California without exception, and without parental exemption.” There is a batch of earlier laws signed that promote the homosexual agenda SB 48 goes a step further and “demands” that students in public schools in California honor Harvey Milk. Who’s he, you ask? He was a homosexual activist and, reportedly, a sexual predator. If I remember correctly, Harvey Milk was murdered several years ago by one of his male “lovers.” Do Christian parents in California want their kids to be honoring that??? And I’m sure when this program is shoved down the throats of other states that some dutiful legislator in each state can be found to sponsor a bill honoring some sexual pervert in that state. This pathetic state of educational affairs is the kind of thing that the parents in Kanawha County, West Virginia protested 37 years ago now. Hardly anyone listened then. No one wanted to believe that “our” public schools would ever do this kind of thing. It seems that it takes folks a long, long time to wake up--and some never do. I have watched people complain about public schools for over 40 years now but it never seems to occur to the vast majority of them that if they don’t like what goes on they need to get their kids out. I think the public educations of most people actually prevent them from doing what they should. May the Lord help us because we sure don’t seem to be able to help ourselves. What will you do when your kids come home from their public school and tell you they have decided to become “gender-neutral” because their teacher says how “liberating” that is? Don’t all answer at once.