10th Annual Iowa Governors Conference on LGBTQ Youth: Words Matter [Luke 17]

On April 3rd, Iowa Safe Schools held our 10th Annual Iowa Governors Conference on LGBTQ Youth. The event hosted over 1,000 attendees including students, college-aged youth, educators, parents, faith leaders, mental health providers, and more who care about the well-being of LGBTQ students in our state. This year’s speakers included the former Prime Minister of Iceland and first out head of government in the modern era - Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir; the first out WWE Superstar Darren Young; and Abbe Land the CEO of The Trevor Project which is a national LGBTQ youth suicide prevention hotline.

Our conference provides the only opportunity for many LGBTQ youth in Iowa to connect, learn, and grow as leaders. Workshop topics have included the coming out process, homelessness, mental health resources, parent and families, legal information, faith, bullying prevention, transgender youth, health issues, and suicide prevention. This event is not state sponsored and private funds are raised over the entire year to cover its cost.

On April 13th, Bob Vander Plaats and the Family Leader sent an email to their followers making absurd accusations regarding the conference. Vander Plaats boasted that he snuck a spy into the conference who was able to listen into presumably private conversations among youth, and even managed to covertly tape some sessions.

I have no words to describe the violation of civil liberties – and common human decency -- it is to listen into the conversations of young people in settings where parents and youth are encouraged to have an open dialogue about tough issues. Recording someone without their consent is wrong even more so when that person is under the age of 18...

Note: This article is by "IowaSafeSchools.org" in response to being questioned about inappropriate material being presented to teens in Iowa.

In Iowa this week, public school teens were shocked by graphic content at LGBT anti-bullying conference. Here are quotes from some of the speakers at the sessions...

The drag queen said: “Reach down inside yourself and give them a blessing – then slash their tires.”

She told me students were given advice on medical transitions from male to female and vice versa – along with information on medication to delay puberty.

“They talked about binders – things that compress a girl’s chest to make it appear you don’t have what is there,” the observer told me.

“And they talked about how students can make fake testicles by filling pantyhose with rice and sewing them into their panties.”

This should scare everyone in the country that still has a soul. In Iowa, a Midwest, heart of the country, a typical conservative farming state is sponsoring conferences that teach our youth this type of LGBT indoctrination.

But perhaps we should expect more of this in Iowa, where this is being exposed just a week after a Satan Worshiping Witch opened the Iowa State Legislative Session, and which was just days after Iowa made April 8 as Muslim Recognition Day.

Jesus said in Luke 17, "28 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat , they drank , they bought , they sold , they planted , they builded ; 29 But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. 30 Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed."

Wake up Americans. Protect your children. Times are going to get much more perilous because it is not the ecstatic, wild-eyed, socialists who are sponsoring these events. It is the so-called conservatives! As predicted, the only bad people in this entire narrative are the people like Bob Vander Plaats who stand against it! Maranatha...

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