The Florida Parental Rights in Education bill has been mischaracterized by its opponents as the “don’t say gay” legislation. The bill, when signed into law by Governor DeSantis, “prohibits classroom discussion about sexual orientation or gender identity in certain grade levels.” The grade levels are primary grades or children in elementary school.
The public school system in America was predicated on the Latin phrase, “in loco parentis,” meaning in the place of the parent. Parents who were busy working to provide a home and the needs of their family passed the teaching of their children to what evolved to be the public school system.
Sex education is fraught with moral and religious implications that the public school system has been forbidden to teach by various Supreme Court rulings. So, Florida’s legislature has provided that sex education is fundamentally a parental right.
Why is the LGBTQ+ community angry over the legislation? Here’s the rub, people who practice a homosexual lifestyle cannot have children, they cannot be parents in a strictly biological sense. They have no parental rights except for those who have managed to adopt children.
Since homosexuals cannot reproduce, the only way to secure acceptance of their lifestyle they must convert others to their way of thinking by indoctrinating the youngest, most innocent, and vulnerable, our children. And they don’t think parents should have a right to know what is being taught to their children regarding sexual issues.
Parents Wendell and Maria Perez are reportedly filing a lawsuit against the Clay County School District. They were called to the school where their twelve-year-old daughter attempted suicide. The little girl had attempted to kill herself twice in the previous two days. They said the school did not inform them until after the second attempt.
Mr. Perez said, “The school counselor alleged that it [suicide attempts] was because of a gender identity issue, and that they knew we as parents would not be in agreement because of our Catholic Christian beliefs. My daughter never exhibited any signs of gender confusion or questioning her biological sex.”
This little girl did not attempt to kill herself at home. She tried to kill herself at school after being counseled at school about her “gender identity issue,” which may have been incited by the school counselor.
This case highlights the fact that gender identity is not just a gender issue or a moral issue, it is also a life and death issue.
While there are cases of abuse in the home, they should be reported, investigated, and prosecuted, if need be. But generally speaking, I will never be convinced that a school employee or the LGBTQ+ community cares more about the welfare of a child than the child’s parents.
The right to raise children according to the parents’ values is God-given, “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord,” Ephesians 6:4. Now, thanks to Florida’s legislature and our governor; it will be the law.
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