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Republicans have a new ally > Democrat school administrators who are pushing radical new diversity & sex-ed curricula. They are suddenly finding themselves on the receiving end of strong resistance coming from Ethiopian Orthodox immigrants, Muslim parents, and Latin American Catholics.
This is a years long political storm that has been slowly building, but is getting a lot rougher for progessives recently. This coalition of religious conservatives is already causing short-circuits in the minds of race-baiting, identity politics-peddling Democrats, and liberal commentators. It is also exposing the extent to which the Left in parts of America has turned supposedly secular institutions, such as local governments and public schools, into dogmatic enforcers of a new quasi-religion.
Finally, if some Muslims and nonwhite Christian immigrants continue to align with the more stereotypical “Religious Right,” it could help build up a new conservative coalition. Montgomery County Public Schools County, Maryland, in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C., have been changing the sex-ed curriculum and adding books about homosexuality and gender identity to other parts of the curriculum. One required book is titled "Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope." The central message of this book is that a girl can become a boy by identifying as a boy. The premise here is that each person has a gender, which is interior and known only to that person, and that this gender is undetermined by, and more important than, biological sex.
Again, this isn’t merely a book left on a bookshelf in a public library. Opponents of this curriculum aren’t book banners. This is a book peddling a brand-new anthropology and sexual morality that is not based in science. The teachings can only be accepted on faith, and it is a faith that directly contradicts not only Catholic teaching and evangelical preaching, but the tenets of all Abrahamic faiths.
The pre-K material for the current sex-ed curriculum comes from the Human Rights Campaign, a far-left gay and transgender group. Pre-K teachers read "Pride Puppy!" to the class. Their opponent, the Coalition of Virtue has entered the scene. The nonprofit group describes itself as an “organization of American Muslims, strategically partnered with members of other faith communities, working together with the intention of reviving the universally held virtues and morals of our country’s great faith traditions.”
The coalition wrote that MCPS “recently introduced a new curriculum to indoctrinate students from pre k-eighth grade on a specific and highly opinionated view of sexual morality and gender ideology.” MCPS isn’t preaching “acceptance” of various lifestyles or beliefs, but is instead preaching one specific set of beliefs as dogma, the coalition explained.
Interesting. This kind of parallels the left's way of pushing Affirmative Action, under the guise of inclusion, when actually their MO is big-time EXclusion. Now leftists are touting their extreme sex-ed curriclums as being tolerant of those with LGBT ideology - the problem being, it is alienating those who are INtolerant of those ideologies.
The coalition wrote “It is a curriculum that teaches a specific sexual morality/values and gender ideology that is completely unnatural and unacceptable. The goal isn't inclusion or education of another view, its indoctrination into that view.”
Now there is a suit, demanding a right for parents to opt their children out of such programming. The county didn’t take kindly to this suit, or to the flood of angry parents who came to testify against such proselytizing in the name of “inclusivity.”
The tension built until many hundreds, maybe a thousand, people showed up at the June 28 board meeting, which the county closed to the public, and protested outside. The crowd was mostly Muslims, Ethiopian Christians, and other immigrant or nonwhite parents or activists.
In another development, The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ground-breaking decision in favor of America First Legal’s lawsuit, challenging the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission’s radical transgender edict forcing religious organizations to violate their beliefs.
The court ruled that the federal government could NOT force religious employers, including churches, to allow biological men into women’s bathrooms.
This is a years long political storm that has been slowly building, but is getting a lot rougher for progessives recently. This coalition of religious conservatives is already causing short-circuits in the minds of race-baiting, identity politics-peddling Democrats, and liberal commentators. It is also exposing the extent to which the Left in parts of America has turned supposedly secular institutions, such as local governments and public schools, into dogmatic enforcers of a new quasi-religion.
Finally, if some Muslims and nonwhite Christian immigrants continue to align with the more stereotypical “Religious Right,” it could help build up a new conservative coalition. Montgomery County Public Schools County, Maryland, in a wealthy suburb of Washington, D.C., have been changing the sex-ed curriculum and adding books about homosexuality and gender identity to other parts of the curriculum. One required book is titled "Born Ready: The True Story of a Boy Named Penelope." The central message of this book is that a girl can become a boy by identifying as a boy. The premise here is that each person has a gender, which is interior and known only to that person, and that this gender is undetermined by, and more important than, biological sex.
Again, this isn’t merely a book left on a bookshelf in a public library. Opponents of this curriculum aren’t book banners. This is a book peddling a brand-new anthropology and sexual morality that is not based in science. The teachings can only be accepted on faith, and it is a faith that directly contradicts not only Catholic teaching and evangelical preaching, but the tenets of all Abrahamic faiths.
The pre-K material for the current sex-ed curriculum comes from the Human Rights Campaign, a far-left gay and transgender group. Pre-K teachers read "Pride Puppy!" to the class. Their opponent, the Coalition of Virtue has entered the scene. The nonprofit group describes itself as an “organization of American Muslims, strategically partnered with members of other faith communities, working together with the intention of reviving the universally held virtues and morals of our country’s great faith traditions.”
The coalition wrote that MCPS “recently introduced a new curriculum to indoctrinate students from pre k-eighth grade on a specific and highly opinionated view of sexual morality and gender ideology.” MCPS isn’t preaching “acceptance” of various lifestyles or beliefs, but is instead preaching one specific set of beliefs as dogma, the coalition explained.
Interesting. This kind of parallels the left's way of pushing Affirmative Action, under the guise of inclusion, when actually their MO is big-time EXclusion. Now leftists are touting their extreme sex-ed curriclums as being tolerant of those with LGBT ideology - the problem being, it is alienating those who are INtolerant of those ideologies.
The coalition wrote “It is a curriculum that teaches a specific sexual morality/values and gender ideology that is completely unnatural and unacceptable. The goal isn't inclusion or education of another view, its indoctrination into that view.”
Now there is a suit, demanding a right for parents to opt their children out of such programming. The county didn’t take kindly to this suit, or to the flood of angry parents who came to testify against such proselytizing in the name of “inclusivity.”
The tension built until many hundreds, maybe a thousand, people showed up at the June 28 board meeting, which the county closed to the public, and protested outside. The crowd was mostly Muslims, Ethiopian Christians, and other immigrant or nonwhite parents or activists.
In another development, The US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued a ground-breaking decision in favor of America First Legal’s lawsuit, challenging the Equal Opportunity Employment Commission’s radical transgender edict forcing religious organizations to violate their beliefs.
The court ruled that the federal government could NOT force religious employers, including churches, to allow biological men into women’s bathrooms.
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