{"id":1426424,"date":"2022-04-08T22:44:51","date_gmt":"2022-04-09T02:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426424"},"modified":"2022-04-08T22:44:53","modified_gmt":"2022-04-09T02:44:53","slug":"exclusive-marsha-blackburn-culture-war-panel-sounds-alarm-on-leftists-indoctrinating-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/exclusive-marsha-blackburn-culture-war-panel-sounds-alarm-on-leftists-indoctrinating-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Exclusive: Marsha Blackburn \u2018Culture War\u2019 Panel Sounds Alarm on Leftists Indoctrinating Children"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fexclusive-marsha-blackburn-culture-war-panel-sounds-alarm-on-leftists-indoctrinating-children%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1426424&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) hosted a stacked roundtable discussion with guests deeply involved in \u201cculture war\u201d issues, according to a video of the event first obtained by Breitbart News.<\/p>\n<p>The guests included Virginia\u2019s new lieutenant governor, Winsome Sears (R), and the high-profile conservative attorney Harmeet Dhillon, as well as others, who zeroed in on concerns with schools\u2019 influence over children.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cOur message from the very beginning has always been that parents matter, that children are our future, and that if we don\u2019t take care of education in the way that we should, our children are going to lose, but our country is going to lose because we are not on this planet by ourselves,\u201d Sears said, pointing to major U.S. adversaries like Russia and China.<\/p>\n<p>Sears, a black Republican woman and Jamaican immigrant,\u00a0<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/clips\/2021\/11\/03\/va-lt-gov-elect-sears-im-destroying-race-narratives-since-you-cant-say-im-a-victim-wish-joy-reid-would-invite-me-on-her-show\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">became<\/a>\u00a0somewhat of a star overnight in November after winning her election in a blue-leaning state. \u201c<a title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/politics\/2021\/10\/04\/republican-youngkin-launches-parents-matter-to-counter-democrat-mcauliffes-anti-parents-education-message\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Parents matter<\/a>\u201d in education, school choice advocacy, and fighting schools that were infusing topics of students\u2019 race and sexuality into their curriculums were the driving messages ahead of Republicans\u2019 victories in Virginia\u2019s election.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Watch:<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Dhillon, who has, among her extensive legal work, litigated on behalf of parents and children and against school administrators, opined that \u201cwhat\u2019s happening in our schools today is perhaps the most critical issue in American politics and American cultural life.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere\u2019s been a multi-year effort in our schools \u2026 to subtly corrupt the messaging that goes to our kids,\u201d Dhillon said, adding that she has observed a shift in school administrators\u2019 focus \u201cto indoctrinate [children] about sexuality at a very young age \u2026 to make this trans ideology, which is, unfortunately there are some people who suffer from confusion about their gender, but to make that some sort of a mainstream civil rights choice, as opposed to what it is, is truly something that was shocking to me when I learned about it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Dhillon added, \u201cI think that any American politician today who\u2019s ignoring this issue is being very foolish, and any cultural leader in our country who isn\u2019t paying attention to the fact that the left is demagoguing us for raising these issues by calling us QAnon, calling us conspiracy theorists. This is no conspiracy. It is in black and white. The evidence is clear.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Others who spoke on the panel included pastor Darrell Scott, who homed in on economic disparities in American communities as opposed to racial disparities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Chad Wolf, former Trump administration acting secretary of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), also appeared on the panel and expressed concern that his former agency could be \u201csacrificing some security\u201d to promote a \u201ccivil rights\u201d agenda based on some of the agency\u2019s recent initiatives pushed under President Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>Blackburn\u2019s roundtable came as part of a long-running series of roundtables and discussions the senator has hosted on issues topical at the time of their occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>One in February\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=DEGOnqBXcSU&#038;t=9s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">focused<\/a>\u00a0on concerns with U.S. athletes participating in the Beijing Olympics in a country accused of human rights abuses and run by communists. Another that month\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=UFCH11iANz0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">zoned in<\/a>\u00a0on the Biden administration\u2019s handling of the Russia-Ukraine conflict as it was quickly escalating into a Russian invasion.<\/p>\n<p>Last week, the senator\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" title=\"This external link will open in a new window\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MWtcUCRqKEY&#038;t=81s\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">hosted<\/a>\u00a0a discussion with swimmer Riley Gaines, a female athlete who was forced by the NCAA to compete against Lia Thomas, a man, in the women\u2019s college swimming championships.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write to Ashley Oliver at <a href=\"mailto:aoliver@breitbart.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">aoliver@breitbart.com<\/a>. Follow her on Twitter at <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/asholiver\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@asholiver<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sen. Marsha Blackburn (R-TN) hosted a stacked roundtable discussion with guests deeply involved in \u201cculture war\u201d issues, according to a video of the event first obtained by Breitbart News. 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