{"id":33408,"date":"2013-01-14T12:00:29","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T18:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33408"},"modified":"2013-01-14T07:49:37","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T13:49:37","slug":"abolishing-gender","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=33408","title":{"rendered":"Abolishing Gender"},"content":{"rendered":"

Katherine Kersten takes on a bill that will likely get fast-tracked<\/a> in this unicorns-and-rainbows legislative session; “anti-bullying” legislation:<\/p>\n

But what if the antibullying campaign now unfolding there has little to do with protecting the traditional targets of bullies: kids who are pudgy, shy or “vertically challenged”? What if it’s driven instead by a political\/cultural agenda that’s not so much about stopping bad behavior as it is about using the machinery of state education to compel children to adopt politically correct attitudes on “the nature of human sexuality,” “gender identity” and alternative family structures?<\/p>\n

What if a new antibullying law would require private religious schools — along with public schools — to enforce this agenda, so families who don’t want to subject their kids to indoctrination in state-approved views of sexuality have no educational refuge?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In the 2013 legislative session, you’ll hear lots of warm, fuzzy language from lawmakers and public officials about protecting “all kids” from bullying. You’ll read about hearings designed to break every legislator’s heart with tearful stories about bullying.<\/p>\n

But every Minnesotan with a child in public or private school should understand that there’s more going on here than meets the eye. Antibullying legislation is coming early in the session; its final shape is unknown. But the legislative goalposts were set in August 2012 by Gov. Mark Dayton’s Task Force on the Prevention of School Bullying, whose report announced recommendations on the shape a new law should take.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What it basically means is that Minnesota’s kids – in\u00a0every\u00a0<\/em>school, religious freedom be damned \u00a0– will be systematically taught that gender doesn’t matter. \u00a0That there’s no difference between men and women, and that having a traditional (also scientific) view of gender is, itself, a form of bullying.<\/p>\n

And, by the way, it won’t prevent a single case of what most of us think of as “bullying”.<\/p>\n

And since it’s “for the children”, it’ll skate through with scarcely a speedbump.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Katherine Kersten takes on a bill that will likely get fast-tracked in this unicorns-and-rainbows legislative session; “anti-bullying” legislation: But what if the antibullying campaign now unfolding there has little to do with protecting the traditional targets of bullies: kids who are pudgy, shy or “vertically challenged”? What if it’s driven instead by a political\/cultural agenda […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-men-and-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33408"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33410,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33408\/revisions\/33410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}