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“I don’t understand how it’s appropriate for kids, and it’s not appropriate for the school board…You’re happy to give these books to kids. It seems like you’re terrified to give them to parents.”
–JAY McDONALD
A school district in Anchorage, Alaska, is next on the parent watchlist for endorsing sexually explicit content for students after one troubled father brought his concerns to light at his local school board meeting only to be quickly shut down.
Jay McDonald, who now homeschools his children as a result of the school’s increasingly woke lesson plans, read aloud from the book Let’s Talk About It, by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan, at a school board meeting. According to McDonald, the book had recently been purchased and made available in high school and middle school libraries. It is described as “the archetype of diversity, inclusion, and equity material.”
McDonald was given three minutes to present to the Anchorage School Board, and he used his time to read from one of the chapters in the book unpacking “kinks, fantasies, and porn.”
“There’s nothing wrong with enjoying some porn, it’s a fun sugary treat,” the book read. “When consumed right, porn can help you discover new aspects of your sexuality.”
It continued: “A great place to research fantasies and kinks safely is on the internet. There’s tons of people and communities out there who share your interests and have all kinds of advice.”
In the chapter on “sexting,” the authors advised their under-aged readers to “get friendly” with photo-editing apps and software before sending naked photos of themselves to their peers.
“Digital photos are permanent, and impossible to retract once they’re out there, so keep your recognizable features out of them, before you share them.”
At this point in his reading, McDonald paused and exclaimed, “This is a book for kids!”
The book went on to suggest: “Crop out your face, hide your birthmarks and scars, and edit out your piercings and tattoos, and don’t forget to tell your sweety how hot they look. Let them know you appreciate the little gift they’ve sent you,” he read.
School Board Vice-President Carl Jacobs, who was given the task of running the meeting, stopped McDonald short of his allotted time.
“I’m going to interrupt you at this point. It sounds like you have a concern about a book. I’d be glad to get you connected to the superintendent and their team to go through the appropriate process,” Jacobs said.
Another school board member, Dave Donley, interjected. “I don’t think he has violated any rules. He hasn’t shown any pornography. He hasn’t used bad words.”
After a back and forth between Donley and Jacobs, Donley appealed Jacobs’ ruling, bringing it to a vote among the school board members. In a 5-2 vote to silence McDonald, Jacobs’ ruling was reinforced, and the father was informed by Jacobs that he could only use his remaining time if he had something else to talk about.
But McDonald persisted in challenging the school board’s decision by defending his First Amendment right to address elected school board members and to read from a library book that was approved by the district.
He concluded:
“I don’t understand how it’s appropriate for kids, and it’s not appropriate for the school board. It feels a lot like you don’t want parents to be seeing what’s being given to the kids…You’re happy to give these books to kids. It seems like you’re terrified to give them to parents, and I think it’s an absolute travesty that you cut off my time and don’t even let me have my three minutes. I think you’re breaking your own rules. Thank you.”
In a Facebook video following the meeting, McDonald continued to read segments from the book to make parents online aware of its contents. One portion discussed anal sex.
McDonald asked in the video, “Are we educating or are we promoting here? When they say they promote comprehensive sex education, this is what they’re talking about.”
When Fox News reached out to McDonald regarding his experience at the Anchorage School Board meeting, he told them that his daughter has already learned about gender identity in her kindergarten and first grade classes.
“We came to realize that they had already been talking to her at that point about the gender stuff,” he said. “It sounds harmless and innocuous, but…what it does in their little minds, it’s very confusing to them. And I’m glad that we got her out of school when we did.”
“It’s not about 1 book or 2 books or 10 books,” he continued. “This is a much larger push. They’re pushing Critical Gender Theory on kids starting in elementary school. They’re encouraging them to get what they call ‘gender creative,’ and they’re transitioning them in public schools, and they’re doing it without prior notification or consent from the parents. And in some cases, they never tell the parents. So, I’m encouraging people…if you’re not able to homeschool, please just sit down with your kids and talk to them about what they hear in school.”
First off, parents need to understand that public schools aren’t what they used to be. Corrupt morals and evil political agendas are being normalized. Alternatives, like Liberty University Online Academy, are fantastic opportunities to educate pre-college students in a healthy, beneficial, and God-honoring way.
Regarding the book above, this book is not sex education, as the authors claim. This book is designed to encourage children to loosen any inhibitions or natural boundaries they might have about their bodies and embrace their sexuality as a form of entertainment in all of its most perverse and dangerous forms. This book encourages children to go out onto the Internet and seek out porn sites, talk to strangers about their inner thoughts, and send illicit photos that can then be shopped around the Internet.
This is grooming. Full stop.
Porn is not a “fun, sugary treat.” It is a satanic perversion of human sexuality and intimacy, an activity that uses, traumatizes, addicts, and forever damages every single person who partakes in it, whether as passive observers or active participants.
This is especially true for children.
The singer Billie Eilish recently spoke of the effects of viewing porn, much of it abusive and violent, from the age of 11. She said it “destroyed” her brain and caused sleep paralysis and ongoing night terrors. As she grew older and became sexually active, the experience caused her to “not say no to things that were not good.”
Mary Anne Layden, director of the sexual trauma and psychopathology program in the University of Pennsylvania’s Department of Psychiatry, has noted that through pornography, children “learn that sex is non-intimate, violent, adversarial, that it is non-relational, it is degrading and it is narcissistic…Everything pornography says is a lie, but it is a massively effective teaching tool — of toxic learning.”
So the question is: Why in the world would any school official allow a book that encourages children to seek out online pornography and engage in degenerate sexual activity to be available in the school library? Equally disturbing, why would school board members react by moving to shut down and shame a parent for shining a light on it? They should be outraged, but they’re not even a little bit concerned.
One thing for certain is school officials are allowing children to be led horribly astray and, as such, they’d better heed this fair warning: One day, your decisions and actions will be judged harshly. Jesus stated in Luke 17:2 that “It would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his neck and he were cast into the sea than that he should cause one of these little ones to sin.”
This is not just one incident. Critical Gender Theory (among other radical ideologies) is being pushed in schools throughout the country — even in conservative districts, even in private and Christian schools — whether it’s pornography in the school library, talking about gender and sex to kindergarteners and elementary students, or hiding a child’s gender confusion and transition from their parents.
Parents, you must get your children out of these toxic environments. If you can’t teach them yourself or send them to a different school, then team up with other like-minded parents and community members to go into the public schools, find out everything teachers are teaching children, hold them accountable, and start working to get moral people elected to the school boards.
Good people everywhere must stand up to these cowards who use their authoritative titles and teaching credentials to insist they know what’s best for children — but then kowtow to groomers and gender activists who seek to entice, use, and harm those children.
It will not be easy, but these are your children: God gave them to you, not to anyone else.
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