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The Left Has Effectively Banned Christian Kids From Public Pools, Libraries, And Summer Camps
The Federalist.com ^ | May 23, 2022 | Joy Pulman

Posted on 05/23/2022 8:26:47 AM PDT by Kaslin

Forcing children to sleep and undress next to kids of the opposite sex effectively puts up a ‘Christian kids need not apply’ sign on public recreation activities.

This spring I got an email from 4-H, a club I participated in as a child, effectively communicating that my Christian family need not apply to summer camps and other activities sponsored by the quasi-public organization. (County governments often sponsor 4-H activities.) This email was signed by a 4-H staffer who put pronouns in his signature and told me, “Youth are assigned cabins based on gender indicated on the 4-H camp application and registration,” suggesting children were roomed by gender identity rather than sex.

Naturally, I was concerned that my tween daughter and son might be roomed overnight with an emotionally disturbed camper or counselor if I enrolled them in this camp. Based on numerous reported stories, I know that if this did happen, the camp likely would not even tell me, so I’d only hear about it after the fact from my kids.

When I emailed again to confirm I was understanding this correctly, the staffer refused to answer definitively whether campers could be placed in private facilities such as bedrooms and bathrooms with transgender individuals. That’s an unacceptable risk to children’s well-being, as well as a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Given how socially contagious LGBT identification is, it’s not just about transgender issue but also exposing children to sexual information and pressures far earlier than they are ready. Hand in hand with grouping children by gender identity is forcing conversations about what that means, which pushes children earlier and earlier to declare and investigate sexual behaviors. This is destabilizing to their identity, not “affirming” it.

Given 4-H national’s commitment to the toxic “diversity, equity, inclusion” ideology, the fact that my Christian kids now cannot equally access lots of their programming due to 4-H’s choice to sexualize their activities was no surprise. But I still wanted to see in writing that my red county in my red state was indeed giving tax breaks and other government privileges to an organization that might room children overnight with troubled people of the opposite sex against their parents’ will. The answer is yes. (Thanks, Republicans!)

Everywhere We Go, Someone Wants to Talk Dirty to My Kids on the Public Dime

It’s not just places kids get naked. It’s everywhere. I cannot take my children to the public library anymore, either, because the shelves are so full of pornographic and hostile books that it’s not a safe place for them. There, too, self-righteous LGBT activism has resulted in effectively banning my children from yet another public place and weaponizing my own tax dollars against my children’s safety.

The shelves and displays in our library are full of books telling my children lies such as that “men can become women” and “some boys have girl brains” and “gender is a social construct.” I’m happy to have these conversations with my children when they are ready, but I know my six-year-old, and he is not ready.

My eight-year-old is not ready, and neither are my 10- and 11-year-old, frankly. It’s grotesque and evil to put books at their eye level that deliberately aim to confuse them about something so deep and important. To do this is to usurp not only my parental wisdom and authority over my own children but to usurp my children’s right to an innocent, emotionally secure childhood.

It Won't Happen, And When It Does, You Bigots Will Deserve It

These all prove that rapidly rewriting American laws to ignore sexual differences has effectively banned Christian families from equal participation in public facilities and activities. It’s not just Christian families, it’s any family that thinks it imprudent to lodge their sometimes undressed daughters with an emotionally traumatized male at summer camp or to obtain swimming lessons at a public pool.

This all descends from the massive bait and switch inherent to the LGBT policy agenda. We were told it was only about extending government sanction to what consenting adults do behind closed doors. We were told it was about allowing people to visit loved ones in hospice and inherit without legal difficulties. It wasn’t going to affect our families, remember?

Anyone who raised concerns about how calling sexual activities that cannot create a family “marriage” would affect children, faith, and families was smeared as a know-nothing bigot. Anyone who wanted to logically think through how legally equating men to women in the social keystone of marriage would have a domino effect on many other laws and social arrangements was also smeared as a hateful bigot, all the way up to highly intelligent and reasoned Supreme Court dissents.

It’s the same toxic play we’ve seen work ever since: Anyone with a contrary opinion or even unanswered questions is not engaged, but simply smeared.

Men and Women Are Different, And That Matters

The fact is that equating homosexual relationships to marriage very often requires explaining adult sexual behaviors to tiny children. Erasing the differences between the sexes in marriage also leads irrevocably to erasing the differences between the sexes everywhere else, from bathrooms to pools to summer camps. Breaking down all sexual differences also results in discrimination against religious expressions that acknowledge men and women are different, and these differences are divinely ordered.

Thus upending the natural sexual order has resulted, not in the falsely promised “equality,” but in simply flipping which social system will rule. For what we were prevented from discussing or even seeing was the fact that these two regimes — treating the sexes as different and complementary versus seeing them as neutered and interchangeable — are mutually exclusive.

You cannot have both transgender swimmers and single-sex sports competition. You cannot have both the sexual profligacy pushed by the dominant LGBT activist class and protect children from sexualized childhoods and predatory social situations. You must have one or the other.

In the absence of clarity about this reality combined with effective use of power on reality’s behalf, abrasive, antisocial activists have fully taken over every public space. Any further sorties are merely tinkering around the edges of their all-encompassing kingdom.

Children Are No Longer a Protected Class, They’re Targets for Groomers

So instead of achieving equality, what we have really achieved is the subversion of children’s developmental needs to adult desires. Instead of equality, we have replaced legal preferences for the only sexual arrangement that produces the most stable future citizens — lifelong married biological parents — with legal preferences for sexual arrangements that harm children and send religious folk to the back of the public bus.

Therefore all who believe in protecting children from marinating in sexual imagery and ideas everywhere they go are the new underclass in our political regime, and in many cases no Republican officials will even recognize our legitimate concerns, let alone fight for our daughters. That’s certainly the case here in Indiana, where Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb won’t sign bare-minimum legislation protecting girls’ sports and nobody is even talking about making our libraries, camps, and pools safe for families (even though that’s one of the few value-added policies a state like Indiana can offer its citizens).

Many of our major public and private institutions are making the public square completely hostile to a happy childhood and faith. Their “solution” to alleged bigotry was institutionalizing actual bigotry. “Our kind” aren’t wanted in “their” territory, you see. Maybe we would be allowed to have separate pools and summer camps funded by our own money, as long as the ACLU doesn’t sue them out of existence like they do Christian hospitals and foster care agencies.

What we weren’t told was that letting homosexuals out of the closet would require stuffing all the children and Christians inside.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial; Politics/Elections; US: Indiana
KEYWORDS: 4h; bidenvoters; camping; children; christian; christianity; genderdysphoria; homosexualagenda; indiana; petebuttigieg
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To: Kaslin
I'm convinced that the left is using the LGBTQ issue to circumvent the Constitution and discriminate against traditional Christians and other conservative Christian groups. It is otherwise very difficult to explain the huge centrality that the left is giving to these issues, particularly the trans movement.

An issue that even ten years ago was a fringe issue pertaining to a tiny element of the adult entertainment industry (drag queens), is now finding its way into elementary schools and public libraries. Formerly conservative organizations like the Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, the YMCA and YWCA, and 4H Clubs have been utterly transformed into active agents of the LGBTQ movement, and no dissent is allowed.
21 posted on 05/23/2022 10:28:29 AM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: Kaslin

You’re way better off keeping your kids away from perverted libtards as much as possible anyway 🤪


22 posted on 05/23/2022 11:02:42 AM PDT by NWFree (Somebody has to say it)
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To: Kaslin

I hope somebody gets a video of them teaching these future farmers how to mate bulls.


23 posted on 05/23/2022 11:11:15 AM PDT by tbpiper
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To: Dr. Sivana

My niece’s grandson is involved in a Troops of St. George group. He and his Dad went camping over the past weekend and they always have a great time together whatever activity they do. It is a great new program for those who no longer trust the Boy Scouts’ situation.


24 posted on 05/23/2022 11:23:32 AM PDT by Gumdrop (Prpmotiong?)
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To: Kaslin

Does State Farm want to be your kids’ neighbor?


25 posted on 05/23/2022 12:14:55 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: NWFree
 

What kind of a people are we;

that we allow men dressed in womens clothes

to pervert the minds of little children?


 

26 posted on 05/23/2022 1:30:37 PM PDT by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: I want the USA back

Of course they are, but they will not succeed.


27 posted on 05/23/2022 3:12:10 PM PDT by Kaslin
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To: Jewbacca

“Just go make your own clubs and camps...”

Until the government comes for them.


28 posted on 05/23/2022 4:34:43 PM PDT by BobL (Putin isn't sending gays into our schools to groom my children, but anti-Putin people are)
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To: Trump.Deplorable; Pollard

one of my friends developed a 3d game engine that is still widely used.

He could not do that today.

Look how Trump is failing at creating a new media platform, and he has money and talent behind his efforts.

It is possible with really deep pockets to create infrastructure, but mostly it is rented from aws or azure, maybe oracle ?

but it is not even easy to play catch up.

Could I start a new FAB for microprocessors if I had a billion dollars ? maybe, but probably it would fail from unexpected things that the established companies have already known about.


29 posted on 05/23/2022 5:11:41 PM PDT by algore
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To: Kaslin

bump


30 posted on 05/23/2022 8:31:18 PM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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To: Jewbacca
Welcome to the club. Orthodox Jews have had to self-segregate for a long time. Just go make your own clubs and camps and let the the secular garbage slide into wasteland and go broke.

She addresses this in the article. Because of the comparatively much larger numbers of Christian-identified people, she — I believe accurately — anticipates ACLU lawsuits insisting that Christian facilities accommodate all comers. So self-segregating will not likely be possible. It has already happened to dating apps, wedding facilities, wedding cake bakers, florists, photographers, and even a family denied the ability to sell their produce at a town farmer's market on the basis of their "exclusionary" (to LGBTs) Christian beliefs.

31 posted on 05/24/2022 5:22:52 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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To: Trump.Deplorable

See post 41.


32 posted on 05/24/2022 5:24:09 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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To: Trump.Deplorable
But you start from the ground up None of these organizations started out with the infrastructure they have now.

Sorry -- I meant post 31.

33 posted on 05/24/2022 5:29:15 AM PDT by Albion Wilde (“Government is the problem.” --Milton Friedman)
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To: Jewbacca

Do Orthodox Jews have to self-segregate, or do they choose to?


34 posted on 05/24/2022 5:36:07 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

Yes.


35 posted on 05/24/2022 5:43:17 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: Jewbacca

Yes to which part of my question?


36 posted on 05/24/2022 5:55:54 PM PDT by NetAddicted (Just looking)
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To: NetAddicted

Both


37 posted on 05/24/2022 7:54:14 PM PDT by Jewbacca (The residents of Iroquois territory may not determine whether Jews may live in Jerusalem.)
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To: who_would_fardels_bear

Or could just mean “For Homosexuals” now.


38 posted on 05/28/2022 9:25:39 PM PDT by One4Life (It's all about control )
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