Our Kids Don't Need LGBT in Their Books

They want to change our kids’ textbooks to recognize notable LGBT people.

Here’s the problem: the people in charge of buying textbooks for our nation’s government schools view the current homosexual and transgender movement as the same or similar to the women’s movement and the civil rights movement of the last century. They see a victimized group possessing immutable qualities that restrict them from just treatment, and they want to correct this injustice by inserting a new rainbow-colored lens for our nation’s children to look through when reading their history textbooks.

Nice, right?

Not quite. The trouble is, this view of the LGBT movement as equal to other notable movements in history is not based on reality. The truth is, individuals who are same-sex attracted or who experience debilitating gender dysphoria have choices to make, unlike women who are born women and therefore have no choice in the matter, or black people who are born black and have no choice in the matter. Those writing the new textbooks and those buying the new textbooks deny the fact that LGBT is sexual behavior, and sexual behavior is always a choice.

Always.

The chromosomes God gave you in your first moment of life that determine your sex, your continent of origin, your ability or disability, these are not choices. These are, by definition, immutable qualities. Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and the other litany of identity labels, are strong psychological and sexual instincts, urges, preferences, and, often, disorders. While the interests and desires experienced by LGBT people may be in-born, the truth is, our sexual curiosities do not determine who we are. Our choices do.

Recognizing notable people in history for doing notable things is certainly appropriate, but elevating a notable person’s aberrant sexual preferences or behavior to hero status is lying to our kids about the grim realities of these kinds of lifestyle choices. While the culture works to paint a pretty picture of LGBT lives, the reality is that LGBT people acting on their impulses more often than not experience unwanted, detrimental consequences. There are terrible risks associated with engaging in homosexual acts and transgenderism: moral, physical, emotional, and psychological risks. Our children deserve to know these risks before we invite them to emulate people engaging in LGBT behaviors.

Ascribing hero status to historical individuals because they chose to define themselves by aberrant sexual proclivities alone does not qualify them to occupy the same history chapter as a black American in 1960, or an American woman before she secured her right to vote.

Further, a child encountering LGBT in a textbook will require explanation. To explain to America’s children what an LGBT-identified historical person means exposes America’s children to the graphic and grossly inappropriate realities of sodomy, female on female oral copulation, and the Frankensteinian monstrosities of fertility-altering hormone therapies and surgeries involved in transgenderism. Or it doesn’t, which is worse.

By glossing over what LGBT really means, changes like the ones proposed teach our children these lifestyles are normal, healthy, and good. None of these behaviors are normal, nor are they healthy, and certainly not good for kids. On the other hand, teaching our kids about REAL heroes, who had no choice about what sex or color or ableness they were born into, nor the culture they were born into, does not expose kids to aberrant sexual realities their parents, churches, synagogues, and mosques no doubt object to.

So, the textbook changers and choosers should take note: the LGBT+ “movement” does not belong in our children’s schoolbooks alongside real suffering, real injustice. It is not the same, no matter how many times, or how eloquently, or how emotionally you tell us it is. It is not the same, because an individual living his life as LGBT-identified has made a choice to do so. Real suffering and true injustice has no such choice in the matter. We know this. Our kids know this. And we are all watching carefully to see what you do. Choose wisely.


Churchgirl