On George Washington’s birthday Saturday over a dozen Christian patriots, concerned about the welfare of children, showed
up near Middle Path on the campus of the (very) liberal Kenyon College in
Gambier, Ohio just east of Mount Vernon, Ohio. We were there to bring attention
to a series of events that were occurring at Kenyon’s Gund Gallery.
When we first arrived on campus, we were met by an earnest
campus security officer who warned us not to tread on Middle Path, which is the
main campus apparently walkway through campus property. He directed us across
the street to the corner coffee shop, which he said was under the jurisdiction
of the city of Gambier. So, that is where we stood holding signs, passing out
literature and engaging students and passers-by.
Some Call It Enlightenment When it is Insanity
From the coffeeshop corner sidewalk you could see the Gund
Gallery and sadly follow families with young children exiting walking a safe
distance from the “deplorable, hateful, bigoted, transphobic” protesters.
Saturday the Gallery was offering a chilling
“Children's Storytime: Transgender
Acceptance and Understanding,” which is part of their monthly “Storytime offers craft making and book readings meant to
address a range of LGBTQ+ issues. In a recent article (2/20/2020) by Grant Holt
in Kenyon Collegian, Mr. Holt remarks about a previous LGBT program
earlier this month,
“Currently,
Storytime is a complement to the Gallery’s ongoing Axis Mundo: Queer
Networks in Chicano L.A. exhibit. The books chosen were Be Who You Are
by Todd Parr and They, She, He Easy as ABC by Maya Christina Gonzalez.
The books taught children to be proud of who they are and how to use inclusive
pronouns.”
The books read this past Saturday to the very
young and impressionable children are books glorying gender dysphoric (a mental
illness) boys pretending to be girls, I
Am Jazz and Julian is a Mermaid.”
One physician commented that the I
Am Jazz book and reality TV show were riddled with inaccuracies. Julian is a Mermaid is a picture book about a boy who sees himself as a
mermaid after watching three beautiful women while riding home on a subway with
his grandmother.
These books are neither harmless nor safe for developing
children’s hearts and minds. Transgender behavior is not normal. Most children, if they have those behaviors (boys
liking dolls or girl liking to play with trucks) grow out of those behaviors
naturally.
Gender dysphoria or transgenderism should not
be affirmed but treated with good counseling. It is a serious mental illness, which
unfortunately has been ignored and/or affirmed by some in the medical
profession and seen as a money-making opportunity, by educators and big
business as a way of appeasing LGBT bullies and agenda-driven teacher unions,
and even by a pandering national political party (Democrat).
Furthermore, experimental puberty blockers
and cross sex hormone therapies and barbaric physical mutilation of body parts
are physically damaging and have life-long mental, emotional and physical
repercussions. This is the real dangerous Conversion Therapy, which under that
same name is so maligned when offered to persons wanting to shun their
homosexual tendencies or past sexual abuse.
Not Too Hospitable
The best way to describe many of the students we met is
that they were extremely Progressive, well Indoctrinated with secular-humanist,
atheist philosophy “taught” by probably by radical professors. One might
describe them as “snowflake socialist zombies,” as they regurgitate what their professors
have taught. Several students claimed to have been brought up as “Christians”
and even some said they have read the Bible.
Refusing to shake the hand of Pastor Dunfee when offered to the person connected to the school implying he was speaking for the college and community said, “We don’t want you here.”
Sadly, he and most of those we interacted with would not
listen to what was being said. The hearts of the students were hardened to
truth. The truth we were bringing was that transgenderism is a confused mental
condition. Exposing children to the LGBT ideology and confuses young developing
minds. To have these stories read to children is child abuse.
What Can Be Done?
What we saw on campus Saturday should awaken Ohioans and
all Americans to the urgency of the upcoming Primary and November General
Elections. We need to elect representatives who will stop funding any and all
gender rebellion. In fact, last week there was a bill that has introduced in
the Ohio House of Representatives, House Bill 513, “The Vulnerable Child
Protection Act,” sponsored by Rep. Ron Hood. This bill would BAN so-called
gender change treatments on minor children. The purpose of the bill is to stop
the practice of prescribing drug to prevent puberty, opposite sex-hormones and
harmful body-mutilating surgeries. Urge your representative to sponsor and
support this critically important bill.
Another necessary bill is Ohio House Bill 180
(HB180) which would “Prohibit performance in which child
simulates sexual activity.” This bill
would ban the performance by children in adult bars. Such as the story of the 9-year-old drag queen who performed for money in a Lancaster, Ohio bar.(3)
An extremely egregious proposed law in Ohio (HB
369 and SB11) mislabeled the Ohio Fairness Act would require public
bathrooms to be open to both sexes, allowing men to enter women’s bathroom if
they “identify” as women (an impossibility). It would also take away parental
rights is a child claims he or she identifies as the opposite sex. It will
allow discrimination of religious beliefs. The Equality Act (HB5) passed the
Pelosi-led U.S. House of Representatives and sits in the U.S. Senate, hopefully
dying there.
Please contact your representatives and
senators and urge them to vote to protect children and religious freedom.
What saw on campus Saturday should awaken parents, who are
spending exorbitant amounts of money for paying radical professions to
indoctrinate and by removing all vestiges of any wholesome Christian upbringing
to stop supporting those schools. Colleges betray any trust parents may have
put in them to provide a well-rounded education. Instead Kenyon and most
colleges, as demonstrated by the socialist minded snowflakes being graduated
does not bode well for this nations’ future.