Whitmer Should Be Drilled On Sexualization Of Kids During Tonight’s Michigan Gubernatorial Debate

Michigan’s incumbent Democrat Gov. Gretchen Whitmer faces Republican challenger Tudor Dixon on Tuesday in the second and final debate before voters head to the polls in two weeks. With recent polls showing Dixon and Whitmer in a statistical dead heat, one line of inquiry ignored during the first showdown between the candidates could send Dixon to the governor’s office: Whitmer’s support for Democrats’ indoctrination of children on sex and gender.

When the Michigan gubernatorial candidates faced off during their first debate on Oct. 13, 2022, the moderator hit the main themes dominating midterm-election discourse: the economy, inflation, crime, Covid, abortion, and education. But other than Dixon condemning Michigan schools for teaching students “sex and gender theory,” and not how “to read, write, and do math,” the debate ignored the propagandizing of children in the public school system.

Two recent developments make the issue ripe for a thorough probing of the candidates’ positions during tonight’s debate. 

First, Margaret Brennan, host of CBS’s “Face the Nation” segment “Eye on America: Election Influencers,” revealed that the sexualizing of children and the peddling of gender-identity ideology in schools worries Americans on both sides of the aisle — and down the middle. Brennan discovered that reality when she asked a focus group last week for their “biggest concerns about raising children in America right now.”

The Republican participant identified the LGBT community’s push for sexual and gender identity material in the schools, countering that “we should be pushing actual school studies, math, social studies, science, not gender studies or sexual identifications.” 

The CBS host then asked the Democrat member of the group to weigh in, which the mom of eight saying, “I can also agree with some of his points.” The mom then noted that with sex education, schools are bringing things to children’s attention that “they wouldn’t even think about.” The Democrat panelist added that you can teach one thing at home, but the kids are “as much influenced by teachers and surroundings” and that parents should have more input.

To the Republican and Democrat comments, the independent member of the focus group said simply, “I agree,” before highlighting concerns over education caused by Covid lockdowns.

That the Republican, Democrat, and independent focus-group participants all shared concerns about the sexualizing of children in schools shows the significance of the issue. But in Michigan, the issue deserves a special focus given the fight over sexually explicit books in school libraries playing out in the state’s sixth-largest city of Dearborn.

This is the second recent development. The same night Dixon and Whitmer dueled in their first debate, the Dearborn School Board heard from scores of residents outraged by the inclusion in the school libraries of six sexually explicit books, including “This Book Is Gay,” which details the “ins and outs of gay sex.” The school board hearing ran several hours and followed the cancellation of an earlier meeting after the overflow crowd of angry parents refused to abide by the board’s protocol.

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