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LGBT “Pride” month has come to a close, but the constant insistence of LGBT activists on pushing their movement onto children takes no breaks. But the LGBT “Pride” movement belongs far away from children and children’s spaces.
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In May, the Denver Public Schools Board of Education voted to fire a high school French teacher, Jennifer Honka. Honka allegedly used classroom assignments to coerce female students into kissing each other during “skits” under threat of receiving a failing grade. According to an investigation, which included interviewing several students, Honka never chose male students for the skits and coerced the students into participating with a classroom policy of “The answer is always ‘yes’ in this class.” The accusations go back three years to the 2023-2024 school year, but Honka had worked for the school district for eight years.
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According to the administrative law judge who conducted the investigation, “Regardless of whether Respondent ‘forced’ the participants to kiss, her choice of script forced them to express their preferences and consent about a very personal and sexualized activity on the spot in front of their peers.”
A report from CBS Colorado included two key details about the story. The first was that, somehow, no criminal charges have been filed against Honka. The second is that “Honka, per the report, had openly disclosed to the class and the school’s principal that she was a lesbian and active in LGBTQ support,” and that Honka viewed the investigation and accusations as discrimination.
Meanwhile, in New York, criminal charges have been brought against Travis Longo, the vice president of the Cazenovia Central School District Board of Education. Longo boasted (truthfully or not) that he was the first drag queen to be elected to a school board. According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Longo was arrested on charges of “receiving and possessing child pornography.”
Herein lies the problem with promoting the LGBT movement in schools. The movement is inherently about sex and sexual attraction. The “L,” “G,” and “B” all refer to sexual preferences. People who make their sexual desires a core part of their identity should not be put in positions of power and influence over children, regardless of what those sexual desires are. There is nothing inherently wrong with having LGBT teachers in schools. There is something clearly wrong with having the LGBT movement, a movement about sex, forced upon children in schools.
In Michigan, the Grosse Pointe Public Schools System allowed a nonprofit, Welcoming Everyone Grosse Pointe, to host a “Pride” event at one of the district’s elementary schools. The event included scantily dressed drag queens interacting with children. Complaints came in that pictures and video of the event, which showed just how inappropriate the event was, were posted on social media for the public to see.
The Montgomery County Board of Education had to be dragged all the way to the Supreme Court after trying to impose LGBT lessons on children all the way down to kindergarten. These lessons required children to read books about same-sex sexual attraction and barred parents from being able to opt their children out of the lessons. That case was decided last year in a victory for parental rights. The fact that such a case went all the way to the Supreme Court, though, was a defeat in its own way.
This has been made clear by another aspect of imposing LGBT ideology in schools. Teachers and administrators who want to introduce children to this movement about sexual attraction want to keep it hidden from parents. This is done under the guise that these children will be physically and emotionally abused by “intolerant” parents, so it is necessary for these adult teachers to bring their child students into their movement about sex in secret, so that parents will not know. In 2021, two teachers at a teacher conference shared with their colleagues how they “stalked” (their word) their students’ search histories to recruit them into their LGBT club, and discussed how they hid their club roster from parents.
The bittersweet legal victories carry over to this year as well. This past “Pride Month,” the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit sided with Huntington Beach against the California government. The case centered on Huntington Beach’s policy that mandated that teachers inform parents if their children were trying to identify as “transgender” at school. California banned localities from imposing such a policy. Still, Democrat-run states fight in favor of this secrecy, and this issue will also likely end up being dragged in front of the Supreme Court.
This secrecy and imposition of LGBT ideology in schools reached a horrifying peak in Loudoun County, Virginia. Loudoun adopted LGBT policies that allowed boys to use girls’ restrooms and locker rooms and vice versa. When this led to a male student sexually assaulting a girl in the girls’ bathroom at two different schools, the district tried to cover up that fact, as it would harm the continued imposition of LGBT policies on children in schools. That is the same reason why the school also tried to punish three male students who were sexually harassed by a female student in the boys’ locker room. In both cases, the purpose was to silence victims in order to maintain the control of the LGBT movement over school policies.
It is worth noting that the focus on building a system designed to appeal to so-called LGBT children harms them as well. California Gov. Gavin Newsom signed into law a mandate that public school student ID cards for children as young as the seventh grade include information about the LGBT suicide hotline known as the Trevor Project. According to Newsom, it would be “cruelty” not to impose this on schools.
But what does the Trevor Project actually do? The project’s online platform, TrevorSpace, connects LGBT youth from the ages of 13 to 24. In other words, the platform connects seventh graders with questions about their sexuality and sexual attraction with random adults who are specifically on the platform to discuss sexuality and sexual attraction. California calls this “compassion.” Most people would call it a red flag.
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In all of the above examples, LGBT activists insist that this is necessary to introduce children to tolerance or to protect supposedly LGBT children. They argue that they must be able to talk to children about sex and sexual attraction, that they must be able to run secret LGBT clubs that hide information from parents, and that they must expose children to drag queens or people on the internet who want to talk about sex.
The LGBT movement is a movement made up of people who make sex a defining aspect of their life. As such, the movement belongs nowhere near children, just as we would not tolerate a movement of straight people who constantly talk about sex to form sexuality clubs, perform sexual skits or dances, or hide information from parents. The LGBT movement and “Pride” should be nowhere near schools or children in general, and keeping “Pride” away from children should be a noncontroversial position.
