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Sexual identity: Another hill to die on (A little pop quiz for you )
Pundit and Pundette ^ | June 28, 2011

Posted on 07/02/2011 1:44:55 PM PDT by NYer

A little pop quiz for you (and take care -- it's trickier than it seems):

How many sexes are there?

If you answered "two" (as in male and female) you're a hopeless old fogey. The correct, up-to-date answer, according to an Oakland, CA, public elementary school, is "more than two." The abolition of childhood (Steyn's phrase) continues apace. Newsbusters' Erin R. Brown:

Redwood Heights Elementary School in Oakland, CA has joined the chorus of those wishing to mainstream “gender-bending” by enacting a program this week that, according to a press release, tells kindergarteners “there are more than two genders.”

The kindergarten through fifth grade school hosted a 2-day program for students titled, “Gender Spectrum Diversity Training,” in which single-sex Hawaiian geckos and transgender clownfish were brought in to teach children that “there are different ways to be boys. There are different ways to be girls,” according to Redwood Heights principal Sara Stone. Students received gender diversity training as they learned about “boy snakes that act ‘girly’.”

This is only the latest example of what seems to be a New-Age, gender-bending agenda pushed into the mainstream media by those who refuse to accept the traditional sex differences between men and women. A couple in Toronto, Canada has sparked outrage because they refuse to assign a specific gender to their infant “Storm,” preferring instead to believe “a child’s sex should not determine his or her place in the world.”
But knuckle-dragging parents in Oakland are fighting back:
The Pacific Justice Institute is taking action against the school, providing outraged parents with legal counsel because it believes the school’s program “does not represent the values of the majority of families in Oakland,” attorney Kevin Snider said.
And it doesn't represent reality, either, if anyone cares.

Jonah Goldberg wants to know how to buy stock in homeschooling. Amusing, but I wonder sometimes why more conservatives aren't homeschooling. No one knows how many families (another outdated concept!) have removed their children from the destructive grip of state-run "education," but it ought to be more than it is. Homeschooling, especially in the lower grades, isn't rocket science. And there's all kinds of help out there today.

RS McCain has written that traditional marriage is a hill to die on. I agree. But when the basic concept of male and female is being undermined, when children are being taught from age five (or younger) that their sexual identity is a mere construct, that hill is going to get harder to defend.

More on the campaign to brainwash, sexualize, and pervert the hearts and minds of children:

Politicaljunkie Mom: Repeat after me: gender is not a construct
 
Backyard Conservative: From a bookcase, she pulls out a story about two male giraffes who are sad to be childless — until they come across an abandoned crocodile egg 

Matthew Balan: NPR Trumpets 'Gender Neutrality' Advocates, Wonders 'Do We Really Need to Know' Gender



TOPICS: Education; Government; Politics; Religion
KEYWORDS: children; gender

1 posted on 07/02/2011 1:44:58 PM PDT by NYer
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To: netmilsmom; thefrankbaum; Tax-chick; GregB; saradippity; Berlin_Freeper; Litany; SumProVita; ...
Homeschooling, especially in the lower grades, isn't rocket science. And there's all kinds of help out there today.

How long before the government decides to shut down that option!

2 posted on 07/02/2011 1:46:00 PM PDT by NYer ("Be kind to every person you meet. For every person is fighting a great battle." St. Ephraim)
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To: NYer

Oakland CA, where that teacher had his naked 2nd grade students doing oral on each other in class?

The newest sex-ed!


3 posted on 07/02/2011 1:46:36 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: NYer

Homos want to have sex with your children,it’s as simple as that.The sooner people understand that fact,the sooner something can be done about it.


4 posted on 07/02/2011 1:49:40 PM PDT by Farmer Dean (stop worrying about what they want to do to you,start thinking about what you want to do to them)
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To: NYer

That would have been a appropriate subject if they’d been teaching clownfish.


5 posted on 07/02/2011 1:51:08 PM PDT by bgill
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To: NYer

Yet more evidence America has already seen her best days.


6 posted on 07/02/2011 1:52:33 PM PDT by ScottinVA (Imagine.... a world without islam.)
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To: NYer
So they show the kiddies that the human sexual deviates are like fish and reptiles; coldblooded low life forms?
7 posted on 07/02/2011 1:58:49 PM PDT by Proud2BeRight
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To: bgill

Seems like an easy question — how many sexes are there?

I think I’m with it as far as “gay” and “lesbian” people. But, I get confused when we get into the “trans-whatever” people. Some have had operations to remove things, but some just dress like they’re the opposite sex. But then some have hormone treatments but never get operations. And some apparently want to be ambiguous about what sex they really are, and what sex they want others to perceive about them.

And what I always wonder is — why in the sam hill does any of this stuff have to be discussed in school in the first place???????


8 posted on 07/02/2011 2:00:39 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: bgill

Seems like an easy question — how many sexes are there?

I think I’m with it as far as “gay” and “lesbian” people. But, I get confused when we get into the “trans-whatever” people. Some have had operations to remove things, but some just dress like they’re the opposite sex. But then some have hormone treatments but never get operations. And some apparently want to be ambiguous about what sex they really are, and what sex they want others to perceive about them.

And what I always wonder is — why in the sam hill does any of this stuff have to be discussed in school in the first place???????


9 posted on 07/02/2011 2:00:39 PM PDT by Dilbert San Diego
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To: NYer
But knuckle-dragging parents in Oakland are fighting back:

Black Americans are, in general, quite conservative when it comes to issues of homo marriage sexual orientation propaganda issues. The majority of blacks in CA voted for Prop 8, the anti-homo marriage initiative.
10 posted on 07/02/2011 2:03:45 PM PDT by Signalman
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To: Farmer Dean

You are right.

And it is mainly the boys they want ....they really don’t give a damn about the girls....they hate women and girls deep down because of their damaged sexual identity that destroyed their maleness....that is why their fashion designs depict women as young boys—no hips and small breasts.

They hate God’s design of man and woman and want to be gods and teach little children that there is no design to human beings....so that they can recreate the world in their sick twisted image of no right and no wrong.....no sexual morality.

Read the Brave New World if you want to see what their “sexual liberation” is like....although in their world....the men would be frolicking around with the little boys, exactly like in the homosexual woman-hating culture of Afghanistan and like the ancient Greeks and the Nazi Brownshirts who used the Hitler Youth to supply their soldiers with young boys.

Promoting homosexuality to children is saying there is no right and wrong when doing sexual things with your body—no matter how dysfunctional and destructive....it is insane and will destroy sexual morality.

You can not have a civil society where children are not protected from sexual predators....these sick twisted people are perverting the thinking of children so they will think up is down....their foundation of knowledge will be destroyed because they are learning there is no right and wrong—there are no absolutes...therefore, no God.

This is a violation of the freedom of religion, if nothing else. Destroys the freedom of parents to control the worldview of their children and allows the atheists to force their thinking on young children. It is conditioning and brainwashing....people are not animals...their analogy is silly and stupid...next they will be saying that since some animals eat their young...that is also “good”.

Morality comes from God...in this country anyway, since our rights come from God, schools should not be able to demean God and his design of the human being and the conscience! It is unconstitutional (and Marxism) for them to force their religion of atheism and sexual immorality on children. They should be put in prison.


11 posted on 07/02/2011 2:26:54 PM PDT by savagesusie (Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason. Cicero)
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To: NYer

It is time for the sane people of this country to draw a line in the sand. They are doing everything in their power to confuse things and destroy the family and the institution of marriage. Look around at the misery of families and children in this country directly caused by this evil. The people who promote this misguided philosphy have blood on their hands, make no mistake about that. Just look at urban neighborhoods where families and children have been hit the hardest.

Why do we allow these people to continue? They wreck our families, decimate our county, and destroy the lives of innocents, which has certainly resulted in many deaths. By their very actions they are looking us in the eye and threatening us. We grandparents are going to have to do nothing less than sacrifice ourselves to stop this insidious, destructive force in its tracks. At best, it is child abuse. Certainly they are contributing to the deliquency of minors. Indirectly, they are murdering innocents. Enough!!!!


12 posted on 07/02/2011 2:33:22 PM PDT by RatRipper (I'll ride a turtle to work every day before I buy anything from Government Motors.)
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To: NYer

American homeschoolers are different from the average in that they are more numerous, politically-active, organized, survival-oriented, and usually armed. You want to be on the side of the “Vision Forum” people if things go haywire!


13 posted on 07/02/2011 3:11:44 PM PDT by Tax-chick (There is no satire that is more ridiculous than the reality of our current government.~freedumb2003)
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To: bgill

Exactly! We are not fish and we are not reptiles. We are mammals and we have two, count ‘em, two sexes. And no matter how much surgery you have or how many hormone pills you take, you never truly change your sex.


14 posted on 07/02/2011 3:57:25 PM PDT by LibertarianLiz
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To: NYer
...there are more than two genders.

Now why to you think the number 2 is part of their so-called correct answer? Why didn't they say "more than one" or "more than three" or "many"? Because the lying sacks of $h!t know the correct answer is just two. They know there are two indisputable genders and the rest is made-up whatever-makes-you-feel-good bunk. And they don't care that they're ruining the minds of little children.

15 posted on 07/02/2011 5:07:49 PM PDT by BufordP ("Drink me if you can't take a joke." -- Kool-aid)
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To: NYer

Dear Lord Almighty,

I give you thanks and blessings for your letting me be born in 1958 and not this year. I thank you for letting me be raised in a sane and moral world where I could learn traditional values. I thank you for allowing me to escape the immoral insanity that those born today will be subjected to. I pray for them that they may weather that storm with minimal mental and spiritual impairment. Thank you, Lord, for letting this cup pass that I didn’t have to go through the torment visited on future generations of American children.

I was blessed to be born 52 years ago and I humbly give you thans you for that blessing. I am not in a hurry to die, but I will welcome death, because I will no longer have to see another day swiftly advancing my beloved nation toward an evil cesspool of socialist tyranny and oppression.


16 posted on 07/02/2011 7:49:18 PM PDT by Freedom_Is_Not_Free (SP12: They called Reagan "unelectable", too.)
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To: NYer

Man, those kids being told there are more than two genders are going to be REALLY confused when they start taking biology!


17 posted on 07/02/2011 11:34:39 PM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Signalman

And Oprah is promoting this sickness on her channel.


18 posted on 07/07/2011 2:59:27 PM PDT by Clock King (Ellisworth Toohey was right: My head's gonna explode.)
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To: NYer

I seem to remember being taught math,grammar and sentence structure when I was in Elementary School.(This was in the early 80’s).


19 posted on 07/19/2011 1:01:56 PM PDT by POWERSBOOTHEFAN (Fear can hold you prisoner.Hope can set you free.(Shawshank Redemption))
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bttt


20 posted on 07/19/2011 4:58:31 PM PDT by Coleus (Adult Stem Cells Work, there is NO Need to Harvest Babies for Their Body Parts!)
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