I’ve little question that the protesting mother and father are honest. They’re anxious about their children. That’s completely comprehensible.
Lots of them are additionally misguided and misinformed — particularly in the event that they assume their children may develop into homosexual or transgender due to an image they noticed in a graphic novel.
That’s not how that works. That’s not how any of that works.
However they proceed to assume so — to see a primary human organic issue as sin, as one thing they need to punish as they might mendacity or shoplifting — regardless of the witness and life expertise of actually hundreds of thousands of individuals all through the world and historical past who say that is what they are, not what they do.
Admittedly, some college organizations are doing themselves no favors once they reply by asserting their experience. They should discover methods to pander to folks’ rights. Like their challengers.
However extra necessary than the rights of oldsters are the rights of youngsters.
In North Carolina, our structure ensures youngsters the suitable to a sound, primary training.
Additionally they have the suitable to dwell; the suitable to nourishment. They usually need to be uncovered to attitudes they may not discover at dwelling.
Youngsters don’t belong to their mother and father — mother and father belong to their youngsters, as expeditors and stewards and guides. They serve them poorly in the event that they attempt to create youthful variations of themselves.
