In their effort to create “safe spaces” that might save lives, the Left’s God-denying agenda has made schools unsafe places that put the emotional and physical health of students at severe risk.
President Donald Trump and Erika Kirk are right … we are in a spiritual battle, and we need to re-insert “religion” into our schools. To justify their advocacy for the LGTBQ agenda in our educational institutions, the Left continually claims … “if we can save just one life.” But what if we were to lose one life? And what if there was a way to save even more lives?
It has become obvious that a well-planned strategy to indoctrinate and groom young students has been unfolding in America’s K-12 classrooms for many years. Without parental approval or knowledge, complex, divisive, and anti-American ideologies are persistently being implanted into young minds, shaping world views … all devoid of divine truth. Minds that are too young to process such complex theories; minds that too often are becoming emotionally unstable.
In short, students and education officials are suffering a spiritual crisis. There has been a systematic effort to eschew God’s truth and to silence Christianity … in favor of false and dangerous narratives.
Supporters of these radical and controversial narratives regularly say that if we can “save just one life,” by making schools a “safe place” for non-conforming students, then all the controversy would be worth it. But what if those policies lead to the “loss” of just one life, as it almost did in the case of Jane Doe and her suicidal daughter?
What the woke Left does not seem to understand is that their attempts to inculcate unhealthy narratives into gullible young minds actually makes schools an “unsafe place” for many students and, simultaneously, infringes on their privacy and their parents’ rights.
The suicide attempt by Jane Doe’s daughter, a 10th grade student in a Rhode Island public school district who for two years was aided in her gender-denying transition by education officials — and kept secret from her mother — underscores the need for a major shift in how we seek to prepare our children for a happy and prosperous future.
Her case also destroys the Left’s false narrative about suicide – that only by agreeing to gender-denying transitions can families avoid the tragedy that Jane Doe and her daughter suffered.
The woke transgender approach has failed miserably in our schools, causing significant harm and emotional distress to many students … and causing great division in our communities.
Thankfully, however, recent federal law and court rulings appear to spell eventual doom for this perverted agenda.
Doe is appealing her lawsuit to the state Supreme Court, seeking to rescind the pro-transgender regulation issued by the Rhode Island Department of Education.
But reform alone – repealing curricula or rescinding regulations away from these divisive theories – falls well short of addressing the spiritual crisis our kids face. A generation hangs in the balance. Mere reform won’t suffice. We need a revival, a bold return to God, to save our children’s future.
Our children need salvation and a return to God’s timeless principles. Only by anchoring education in faith, morality, and reverence for the Creator can we eradicate the Left’s evil indoctrination. Once upon a time in America, schools aided in nurturing souls, not just minds, fostering virtues rooted in Scripture .. and America was largely united in a moralistic society.
I have 100% faith that by turning once again to the Almighty, exemplified by our national motto “In God We Trust,” we can save infinitely more lives than any immoral Marxist theory that seeks to deny God’s truth.
We all know that His truth keeps marching on. So, it is vital that we begin advocating for a committed return to faith-based principles in education. This is how we will save our children … and their future.
And it’s Constitutional. This is not a government-mandated religion. The separation of church and state, rooted in the First Amendment, prohibits the state from establishing or enforcing a specific religion, but it also protects free religious expression.
Private individuals or communities pushing for faith-inspired educational values, without government coercion, do not violate the First Amendment. Such a strategy emphasizes cultural and spiritual renewal, not legal imposition of religious doctrine, aligning with free exercise of religion while respecting the Establishment Clause.
The Rhode Island Department of Education has become a hopelessly socialist operation, and we cannot look to them for leadership in this regard. Therefore, it is up to parents, concerned citizens, and local school committees to appreciate the reality and goodness of God’s truth, and work to restore a healthy measure of faith-based study into our educational systems.
If Jane Doe’s daughter held faith in God’s truth, she would have been saved from her personal and family tragedy … and we would not have been at risk of losing this one precious life.
Mike Stenhouse is CEO of the RI Center for Freedom & Prosperity, earned an economics degree from Harvard, and is a former major league baseball player.
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