Indiana sex educators face online attacks, skittish schools

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10 thoughts on “Indiana sex educators face online attacks, skittish schools

  1. To the contrary, Michael G. I know Micah Clark personally and he is as fine a man as you’ll ever know. By denigrating him, you bring shame and question to yourself.

    1. Not surprised at all. You are two of a kind. Probably belong to the same fascist, theocratic cult. And same klan.

    2. Michael, please let us know the best way to teach fisting to five-year-olds. It’s essential that they learn at a young age, and I don’t want to be branded a bigot.

  2. Lost me at “Sex Education Summer Camp” the leader says it is age appropriate, but that seems almost mutually exclusive… someone who is proactively creating something like that is inviting to be booted out of schools.

  3. Having been to UU churches in the past, I would never in a million years want someone who subscribes to that belief system teaching my children about sex. There is much to be gained and understood from their approach to theology, and they foster interesting discussions. But they are not wise authorities on sexual ethics, not the least of which because their congregations typically have few or no children.

    I don’t know Ms. Robertson personally, and I cannot judge her character outside of the context of this article. But her claims of victimhood, and WFYI’s predictable sympathies for her without questioning why she’s getting death threats, leads me to belief she absolutely has introduced sexual subversion to her underage pupils. And is facing predictable and completely justified outrage for it. (I mean, if FYI can’t call the “Don’t Say Gay” bill by its actual name but instead by the name the left uses to smear it, we know it’s not a fair player. But it’s public television–duh, we knew that already.) Most of us by now have seen the LibsOfTiktok videos and know exactly what these slimeballs are trying to do, and it’s not about “bodily autonomy, active listening and communication, the characteristics of healthy and unhealthy relationships, and how to identify coercive behavior.” Those are the euphemistic efforts to propagandize. It’s all about normalization of non-conventional sexual behavior at ages that aren’t remotely sexual, and even if it’s under the guise of “teaching tolerance”, it’s 100% self-serving on the part of these teachers. They’re not doing it for the good mental, emotional, or sexual health of the kids.

    Just because the majority of Americans support full rights for gays doesn’t mean any kind of sexual behavior (L,G, B, or Hetero) should be impressed upon second graders, even if there’s an extremely anomalous outlier group of girls getting periods at 8 or 9. These “tolerance” advocates are their own worst enemies because they’re taking those of us who were genuinely sympathetic toward the advancement of their rights and making us sour. Thankfully, most of us also see people as individuals first and not members of group identity first, so we can recognize all the good LGBTQ caregivers and parents and pedants who also see this for the subversive, grooming behavior that it is.

  4. “sex education summer camp” – come on, Ms. Robertson: why on earth is an entire camp devoted to this subject? You clearly want it to include far more than the birds and the bees. Parents who send their kids to this stuff deserve everything they get, but I still feel bad for their hapless kids, who are the pawns in their parents’ factitious disorders imposed on others (AKA Munchhausen syndrome by proxy).

    It’s no better than the Jesus Camp of the 2000s, and just as much based on a cultlike ethos. But at least at Jesus Camp your kids didn’t leave the program thinking that they had been born into the wrong body.

  5. Sex education is something that should be done by the parents. This is politically driven and has an agenda to tell people gay, LBGQ or same sex relations is okay. Same people that are shoving down peoples throats that abortion isn’t killing babies and that evolution is how the earth was formed.

  6. Parents need to be VERY CAREFUL AND DILIGENT about keeping up with all the curriculum the school is teaching. Parents need to daily instructing their kids in the truth. Telling them: this is the the school says is truth. This is what our family teaches and know to be true. These groups are very good at making the agenda in what they are selling. Usually making it sound innocent.

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