1) Parental involvement dependent on student’s permission:
“Involvement of parents in the plan is
determined in working with the student, considering the student’s age and
health, wellbeing and safety concerns” (Page 34).
2) Students can choose their bathrooms and changing facilities:
“Students must have access to the
restroom/changing facilities that correspond to their gender identity”
(Page 42).
3) CMS will remove some gender-based activities: “CMS will evaluate all gender-based
activities; maintain only those that have clear and sound pedagogical purpose”
(Page 46).
4) Students can choose their gender-based activities (intramural
sports, dress codes, classes, ceremonies, photos,
extracurricular activities, etc.). This includes choosing which gender
they participate with during overnight field trips: “Students are permitted to participate in
gender-based activities consistent with their gender identity” (Page 46).
5) Students shall not be referred to as “boys and girls” in
classrooms, but “scholars” or “students”: “Avoid
gender specific classroom management techniques” (Page 46).
It is hard for this North Carolina
resident, Retired Army Officer and retired high school instructor to envision what
America will look like in 2 or 3 decades – when good, decent, values loving, moral
people fail to stand up, measure up and act now. When we fail to do things we
can do, but choose not to, then when bad things happen, they happen because we
chose to do nothing.
Is it not time that Americans of virtue,
regardless of faith, seek the common good of our nation and start speaking out
against nonsense like what CMS is advancing? Is it not time for professing Christians
to start running for local offices – especially school boards – to protect our
children and common-sense civility?
It becomes obvious to even me that
those CMS members who voted in favor of the newly adopted guidelines are the
same ones whom the Apostle Paul spoke of in Romans 1:22-23. “… their foolish heart was darkened. Professing
to be wise, they became fools, and exchanged the glory of the
incorruptible God for an image in the form of corruptible man and of birds and
four-footed animals …” Do you not see the same heretical ethos pattern
today?
It’s important to remember we are all created
in God’s image – male and female. Though some truly struggle with gender
confusion, for which there is abundant help and healing in Christ, we cannot
exchange the image of God for four-footed animals like “The Gender Unicorn.”
It’s disturbing we’ve fallen this far as a society. I close this post with an Abraham
Lincoln bit of advice: “The philosophy of the classroom in one generation will
be the philosophy of government in the next.”
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