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The truly remarkable thing about Florida's anti-grooming law
American Thinker.com ^ | April 11, 2022 | Peter Laffin

Posted on 04/11/2022 2:44:29 AM PDT by Kaslin

It is difficult to remain objective over the Florida education fracas. So much of the episode fires up the amygdala. The innocence of children. The rights of parents. The sovereignty of individual identity. The never-ending scandal of humans and sex. To feign "neutrality" in this conflict is a sort of moral suicide. If none of this matters, what possibly could?

As someone who taught school in progressive enclaves for 14 years, I can attest that there are many good people who oppose this law for fear that it will diminish the humanity of loved ones and reverse the tide of social progress. Although I do not believe that this law will have that effect, I respect the sincerity of those who do. Nonetheless, it remains urgent to speak truth plainly and oppose the ever-intensifying spread of radical social theory being taught to ever-younger students.

Instances of ideological excess in American classrooms are well chronicled and widespread. We have seen enough to know that the time to act has long since passed. The Florida anti-grooming law is a necessary tool to blunt this advance, even though it seems conspicuously tame upon closer inspection. Its most controversial aspect, from which the clever but disingenuous "don't say gay" moniker was derived, would have been uncontroversial in any other era: "Classroom instruction by school personnel or third parties on sexual orientation or gender identity may not occur in kindergarten through grade 3 or in a manner that is not age appropriate or developmentally appropriate for students in accordance with state standards."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: florida; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; rondesantis

1 posted on 04/11/2022 2:44:29 AM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin
I can attest that there are many good people who oppose this law for fear that it will diminish the humanity of loved ones

I can't get past that. Just seems like blathering.

2 posted on 04/11/2022 2:49:52 AM PDT by ClearCase_guy (It's hard to "Believe all women" when judges say "I don't know what a woman is".)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I am reminded of what causes cockroach and rat infestations.

bad lighting, sloppy housekeeping, anything to do with who uses which bathroom and the ever offended LGBTQ sensibilities.


3 posted on 04/11/2022 3:12:57 AM PDT by wita (Always and forever, under oath in defense of Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.)
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To: Kaslin

funny how the left can package a perversion with a new label and the zombie pukes will follow without ever knowing what the truth is because they cant get passed the hate.


4 posted on 04/11/2022 3:13:41 AM PDT by ronnie raygun
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To: ClearCase_guy

Like most “authors” in today’s world, it is a necessity for them to appear sensitive to bother sides of the argument.


5 posted on 04/11/2022 3:34:07 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: sit-rep

both*


6 posted on 04/11/2022 3:35:17 AM PDT by sit-rep ( )
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To: ClearCase_guy

Re:”I can attest that there are many good people who oppose this law for fear that it will diminish the humanity of loved ones...”

Good? Really?


7 posted on 04/11/2022 5:02:19 AM PDT by wintertime ( Behind every government school teacher stand armed police.( Real bullets in those guns on the hip!))
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To: Kaslin

“and reverse the tide of social progress.”

I wouldn’t mind seeing that in the least.

L


8 posted on 04/11/2022 5:03:58 AM PDT by Lurker (Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is.)
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To: Kaslin

There is no sympathy for groomers of children for sex. There is nothing nice about them. There is nothing but hatred and violence I want to do to them.


9 posted on 04/11/2022 5:04:09 AM PDT by CodeToad (Arm up! They Have!)
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To: ronnie raygun

Public education, and education in general, has lost it’s way. It’s now not so much about education (Math, Science, English, History, etc.) as it is about indoctrination (destruction of America’s unique culture). The USA spends more $ per pupil than any other nation on earth and yet we are falling further and further behind the nations we compete with. The big question is, “Is this by design, incompetence, or a combination of the two?”


10 posted on 04/11/2022 5:10:46 AM PDT by Rlsau1
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To: ronnie raygun
funny how the left can package a perversion with a new label and the zombie pukes will follow without ever knowing what the truth is because they cant get passed the hate.

Say what you want, but they are very skilled at controlling the language of the debate. Don't be surprised if, in the not too distance future, the use of words like "groomer" and "pedophile" are denounced as "hate speech."

11 posted on 04/11/2022 5:12:30 AM PDT by GreenHornet
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To: ClearCase_guy

“I can attest that there are many good people who oppose this law for fear that it will diminish the humanity of loved ones”. I am with you. I almost quit reading right there. How does not allowing a teacher to talk about transgendering and homosexuality with a 5 year old in the classroom diminish the humanity of someone’s loved one? That’s one of the dumbest statements by an writer I’ve seen regarding the new Florida law. I just want to scream...LEAVE OUR KIDS ALONE!!


12 posted on 04/11/2022 6:24:16 AM PDT by JoJo354 (JUST SAY NO to covid vaxx!)
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To: Kaslin

To me, one of the main aspects of evil is that people who have power over those who are defenseless use that power for their own benefit, usually to the detriment and harm of the weak. That is precisely what the left is doing here.

Even worse, they try to justify their evil by saying they are helping these young people. The guy writing the article tries to pass these people off as good and honest. No . . . I am afraid not. They are so evil and immoral they deserve to be strung up on the nearest tree and left to rot. . . unspeakable evil against defenseless young people.


13 posted on 04/11/2022 7:07:43 AM PDT by RatRipper (The Biden Adm is leading an attack against US citizens . . . pure evil.)
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