2. Erasing Sexual inhibitions and boundaries
Erasing Sexual Inhibitions and Boundaries is the second category of public education pedagogies, programs, and policies that are overwhelming students, families, and schools featured in Higher Ground’s Tsunami of Systems series.
Graphic Sexuality
Does a child have a right to access or read sexually graphic books & material?
Adults who turn a blind eye to sexually explicit performances, passages, and pictures in schools are complicit in breaking down a child's natural protective instincts, desensitizing children to deviancy, shattering childhood safety and innocence, and abetting hostile learning environments.
Graphically obscene materials and porn in any form are never appropriate in schools, and laws must be strengthened to protect children from exposure to illicit depictions and descriptions.
Sexually explicit materials and books have proliferated in school settings due to:
- A relaxation of academic and community standards
- A failure to hold school staff accountable to law, codes of conduct, and educator standards
- An increase in educator activism under the guise of “academic inquiry,” the “right to read,” and pornography “literacy”
District policies often justify sexually explicit materials by saying they “reflect the community,” serve a therapeutic purpose for children who’ve been sexually abused, and allow children to “see themselves” in the text.
Schools overcome the parental objections to smut by limiting the number of challenges to questionable materials and by allowing access to obscene materials with parental permission.
What pornography is really about, ultimately, isn't sex but death.
As it stands today, bright lines prohibiting obscenity in schools, and the enforcement of those lines, are being negotiated away through collaborative public policy approaches, increasing the vulnerability of our children and families to social instability and delaying the relief due them through the equal protection of the laws.
Children do not, and never have, had a legal right to access obscene materials. Likewise, no government agency or institution has a right or entitlement to government-subsidized materials that are graphically sexual in nature, regardless of any tangential secondary or tertiary qualities that are non-pornographic in nature.
But as bright line protections for our children continue to be blurred through social acceptance of transgressive displays—such as Drag Queen Story Hours and gender-questioning books—schools will inevitably lower the bar for “age-appropriate” materials to align with a new and sexually permissive set of “community standards” in which community is defined by identity politics, not geographical boundaries.
Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity & Expression (SOGIE)
What happens to societies when sexual norms become transgressive?
Hypersexualized social experimentation has both reached and breached schools. School walls not only don't protect kids from this assault, but they also prevent any escape from it. Instead of stigmatizing the sexual socialization of children, schools now stigmatize parents as "unsafe" who try stand between SOGIE agendas and their children.
Families face an unprecedented cultural shift that deconstructs and redefines sexual boundaries and norms. Whether it’s fluid sex-characteristics or sexual attractions, children are prematurely exposed in schools to ideas and symbols that mainstream the promotion of an uninhibited spectrum of sexual expression and reinterpretation of biological reality in the name of “inclusivity.”
SOGIE agendas are insinuated into school settings through:
- Safe Schools programs
- Gender & Sexuality Alliances, or GSAs (formerly Gay-Straight Alliances) in secondary schools and
Rainbow Clubs in elementary schools - Compelled or expected use of “correct” (formerly “preferred”) pronouns
- “Trusted adult” designations
- Prevention programs
- Rainbow flags and other “safe space” displays
- QR codes linked to explicit sites
- Codeswitching
- Hidden curriculum
- Obscene books and materials
- Diversity, Equity & Inclusivity
Creating whole departments of ethnic, gender, and other 'studies' was part of the price of academic peace. All too often, these 'studies' are about propaganda rather than serious education.
In a SOGIE framework, the goal is to remove “uncertainty” and stigma from social interactions in schools for LGBTQ+ individuals, meaning that acceptance of SOGIE causes must be, without exception, affirmed through visible expressions of support, like pronoun pins, mug stickers, rainbow flags, etc.
Comprehensive Sexuality Education (CSE)
Should parents trust strangers with physically & spiritually sensitive topics?
The Comprehensive Sexuality Education movement takes a no-holds-barred approach to sexualizing children. No age is too young, no topic is too taboo, and no child will escape exposure to sexually graphic instruction, whether directly or indirectly administered.
Personal pleasure free of social, religious, or physical constraints is the central idea behind comprehensive sexuality education in schools. CSE is an evergreen issue for SIECUS, UNESCO, Planned Parenthood, and the CDC, among others.
Related CSE euphemistic efforts include:
- Human rights activism
- Healthy sexuality
- Culturally appropriate instruction
- Reproduction rights
- Violence and prevention programs
CSE advocates use state lawmakers to install comprehensive sex ed programs piecemeal. Educational program administrators and staffers continue this work by producing content that steers educators on how to engage in sexual conversations with students.
Another key element behind the incremental implementation of CSE programs is the idea of “consent.” A child cannot consent legally to sex. Consent is not a universally neutral practice or concept. It leads to ambiguous conclusions of what is acceptable and, in some cases, legal.
The definition of consent is continually expanding and morphing to include almost all interactions a person (or in this case, students) can have with someone else. It is controversial in nature because it throws the door wide open for sexuality activist groups to come in. Some of these organizations explain how to negotiate sex in the name of consent. Others give explicit instructions in what consent looks like including acting out scenarios, roleplaying, and group activities.
What masquerades as sex education is not education at all. It is selective propaganda which artificially encourages children to participate in adult sex, while it censors out the facts of life about the unhappy consequences. It is robbing children of their childhood.
CSE has also expanded into areas like “porn literacy” and sex violence prevention, using safety and inclusivity as pretexts for opening up sensitive and graphic dialogues with children on sexual preferences and practices.
In a CSE framework, the teaching of Comprehensive Sexuality Education finds inroads into our schools through teacher training and resource materials. CSE is not academic but rather a radical ideology meant to sexualize our children. It is a direct assault on the traditional family values and an affront to parental rights and religious liberty. Study after study proves that early sexualization of children impedes their future ability to form strong and lasting marriages or healthy families.