Florida’s Anti-Grooming BillWhat possible good motives are there for teaching sexuality to a six year old?
By Declan Leary
March 12, 2022
Rumor has it that the Sunshine State is heading back to the Dark Ages. Effectively voiding Lawrence v. Texas, on Tuesday the Florida legislature passed a bill inspired by simple hate, clearly aimed at the othering of LGBTQIA+ Floridians (youth especially) and certain to lead to a wave of atrocious violence against them. Gay men, women, children, etc., will be driven underground, forced to conduct their affairs in secret out of fear for their safety and the vengeance of the state. Public executions start on Monday.
Do not be fooled by the bill’s innocuous name: the Parental Rights in Education Act. This is mere “cynicism” an obfuscation of the proposed law’s true intent and motivations. Nor should you be taken in by the bill’s innocuous content: It consists mostly of requirements for “notifying a parent about his or her student’s mental, emotional, or physical health or well-being,” with the caveat that “school personnel [may] withhold such information from a parent if a reasonably prudent person would believe that disclosure would result in abuse, abandonment, or neglect.”
Its most offensive provision—this one is really bone-chilling—reads: “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.”
This “vague but menacing language is clearly focused on chilling any mention of L.G.B.T.Q.+ lives. It’s overreach in search of an actual problem.” This is gay erasure.
That’s what the New York Times would have you think. The paper of record has joined the moral panic over H.B. 1557, the bill dubbed hysterically “Don’t Say Gay” by its critics on the left.
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Pushaw also notably tweeted from her personal account: “The bill that liberals inaccurately call ‘Don’t Say Gay’ would be more accurately described as an ‘Anti-Grooming Bill.’ If you’re against the Anti-Grooming Bill, you are probably a groomer or at least you don’t denounce the grooming of 4-8-year-old children. Silence is complicity. This is how it works, Democrats, and I didn’t make the rules.”
Asked to walk it back by a man with a trans flag as his Twitter header and “He/Him. Warren Democrat, married, gay, theatre actor, and living with #SpinaBifida” as his bio, Pushaw responded in part, “I do not see any good reason for anyone, regardless of orientation or identity, to condone instruction about sex and gender theory to VPK[voluntary pre-kindergarten]-3rd graders.”
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Source:
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/articles/floridas-anti-grooming-bill/
