Attacks on the ‘Don’t Say Gay’ law are about control

Spectator World ^ | 29 Mar 2022 | Chadwick Moore

[Rummyfan]

Progressives aren’t upset about the law; they’re upset about losing their stranglehold over education

When you scratch a millimeter beneath the surface, or just actually read the damn bill for yourself, you see how innocuous the whole thing is. Why was the law even needed? And why, you might wonder, the extraordinary outrage and all the public tantrums? On its face, rather than some Christian theocratic decree, the law seems to act as a reminder, more than anything else, for educators to stick to age-appropriate topics. None of this is about gay rights — little is these days — but rather about control.

Here’s what happened: during lockdown and remote learning, some teachers and school districts were caught by parents being inappropriate. Students were not only getting pumped full of Critical Race Theory, parents realized, but bizarre gender ideology as well. Parents across the country were disgusted and outraged — they even flipped Virginia red in 2021 as a result. One state, Florida, has now put the left in time out, and Democrats are having an absolute conniption fit. This isn’t about the law, per se. Progressives arec raging against being reeled in. They’re not worried about “gay kids.” They’re telling America: you’re not allowed to tell us what to do, especially in education.

[Rummyfan]

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[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

Florida should hit them with a one-two punch. That is, really stiffen the laws against grooming very young children, so the defiant ones who say “I don’t care what the law says, I’m going to teach sexual perversion to these kids”, should get the book thrown at them.

[griswold3]

Don’t groom in the classroom bill