Face Off at a Far-Left Liberal College

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.