{"id":1488049,"date":"2022-05-23T08:00:46","date_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1488049"},"modified":"2022-05-23T08:00:58","modified_gmt":"2022-05-23T12:00:58","slug":"the-left-has-effectively-banned-christian-kids-from-public-pools-libraries-and-summer-camps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/the-left-has-effectively-banned-christian-kids-from-public-pools-libraries-and-summer-camps\/","title":{"rendered":"The Left Has Effectively Banned Christian Kids From Public Pools, Libraries, And Summer Camps"},"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\">28<\/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%2Fthe-left-has-effectively-banned-christian-kids-from-public-pools-libraries-and-summer-camps%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=1488049&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><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/52034355248_c3a3263475_k.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>This spring I got an email from 4-H, a club I participated in as a child, effectively communicating that my Christian family need not apply to summer camps and other activities sponsored by the quasi-public organization. (County governments often sponsor 4-H activities.) This email was signed by a 4-H staffer who put pronouns in his signature and told me, \u201cYouth are assigned cabins based on gender indicated on the 4-H camp application and registration,\u201d suggesting children were roomed by gender identity rather than sex.<\/p>\n<p>Naturally, I was concerned that my tween daughter and son might be roomed overnight with an emotionally disturbed camper or counselor if I enrolled them in this camp. Based on numerous reported stories, I know that if this did happen, the camp likely would not even tell me, so I\u2019d only hear about it after the fact from my kids.<\/p>\n<p>When I emailed again to confirm I was understanding this correctly, the staffer refused to answer definitively whether campers could be placed in private facilities such as bedrooms and bathrooms with transgender individuals. That\u2019s an unacceptable risk to children\u2019s well-being, as well as a lawsuit waiting to happen. <\/p>\n<p>Given how <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/389792\/lgbt-identification-ticks-up.aspx\">socially contagious LGBT identification is<\/a>, it\u2019s not just about transgender issue but also exposing children to sexual information and pressures far earlier than they are ready. Hand in hand with grouping children by gender identity is forcing conversations about what that means, which pushes children earlier and earlier to declare and investigate sexual behaviors. This is destabilizing to their identity, not \u201caffirming\u201d it.<\/p>\n<p>Given 4-H national\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/4-h.org\/about\/equity-and-inclusion\/\">commitment<\/a> to the toxic \u201cdiversity, equity, inclusion\u201d ideology, the fact that my Christian kids now cannot equally access lots of their programming due to 4-H\u2019s choice to sexualize their activities was no surprise. But I still wanted to see in writing that my red county in my red state was indeed giving tax breaks and other government privileges to an organization that might room children overnight with troubled people of the opposite sex against their parents\u2019 will. The answer is yes. (Thanks, <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/09\/indiana-republicans-pawned-social-conservatism-for-economic-growth-and-got-neither\/\">Republicans<\/a>!)<\/p>\n<h2>Everywhere We Go, Someone Wants to Talk Dirty to My Kids on the Public Dime<\/h2>\n<p>It\u2019s not just places kids get naked. It\u2019s everywhere. I cannot take my children to the public library anymore, either, because the shelves are so full of pornographic and hostile books that it\u2019s not a safe place for them. There, too, self-righteous LGBT activism has resulted in effectively banning my children from yet another public place and weaponizing my own tax dollars against my children\u2019s safety.<\/p>\n<p>The shelves and displays in our library are full of books telling my children lies such as that \u201cmen can become women\u201d and \u201csome boys have girl brains\u201d and \u201cgender is a social construct.\u201d I\u2019m happy to have these conversations with my children when they are ready, but I know my six-year-old, and he is not ready. <\/p>\n<p>My eight-year-old is not ready, and neither are my 10- and 11-year-old, frankly. It\u2019s grotesque and evil to put books at their eye level that deliberately aim to confuse them about something so deep and important. To do this is to usurp not only my parental wisdom and authority over my own children but to usurp my children\u2019s right to an innocent, emotionally secure childhood. <\/p>\n<h2>It <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theamericanconservative.com\/dreher\/the-law-of-merited-impossibility\/\">Won\u2019t Happen<\/a>, And When It Does, You Bigots Will Deserve It<\/h2>\n<p>These all prove that rapidly rewriting American laws to ignore sexual differences has effectively banned Christian families from equal participation in public facilities and activities. It\u2019s not just Christian families, it\u2019s any family that thinks it imprudent to lodge their sometimes undressed daughters with an emotionally traumatized male at summer camp or to obtain swimming lessons at a public pool. <\/p>\n<p>This all descends from the massive bait and switch inherent to the LGBT policy agenda. We were told it was only about extending government sanction to what consenting adults do behind closed doors. We were told it was about allowing people to visit loved ones in hospice and inherit without legal difficulties. It wasn\u2019t going to affect our families, remember?<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who raised concerns about how calling sexual activities that cannot create a family \u201cmarriage\u201d would affect children, faith, and families was smeared as a know-nothing bigot. Anyone who wanted to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.cornell.edu\/supct\/html\/02-102.ZD.html\">logically think through<\/a> how legally equating men to women in the social keystone of marriage would have a domino effect on many other laws and social arrangements was also smeared as a hateful bigot, all the way up to highly intelligent and reasoned Supreme Court dissents.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s the same toxic play we\u2019ve seen work ever since: Anyone with a contrary opinion or even unanswered questions is not engaged, but simply smeared. <\/p>\n<h2>Men and Women Are Different, And That Matters<\/h2>\n<p>The fact is that equating homosexual relationships to marriage very often requires explaining adult sexual behaviors to tiny children. Erasing the differences between the sexes in marriage also leads irrevocably to erasing the differences between the sexes everywhere else, from bathrooms to pools to summer camps. Breaking down all sexual differences also results in discrimination against religious expressions that acknowledge men and women are different, and these differences are divinely ordered.<\/p>\n<p>Thus upending the natural sexual order has resulted, not in the falsely promised \u201cequality,\u201d but in simply flipping which social system will rule. For what we were prevented from discussing or even seeing was the fact that these two regimes \u2014 treating the sexes as different and complementary versus seeing them as neutered and interchangeable \u2014 are mutually exclusive. <\/p>\n<p>You cannot have both transgender swimmers and single-sex sports competition. You cannot have both the sexual profligacy pushed by the dominant LGBT activist class and protect children from sexualized childhoods and predatory social situations. You must have one or the other. <\/p>\n<p>In the absence of clarity about this reality combined with effective use of power on reality\u2019s behalf, abrasive, antisocial activists have fully taken over every public space. Any further sorties are merely tinkering around the edges of their all-encompassing kingdom. <\/p>\n<h2>Children Are No Longer a Protected Class, They\u2019re Targets for Groomers<\/h2>\n<p>So instead of achieving equality, what we have really achieved is the subversion of children\u2019s developmental needs to adult desires. Instead of equality, we have replaced legal preferences for the only sexual arrangement that produces the most stable future citizens \u2014 lifelong married biological parents \u2014 with legal preferences for sexual arrangements that harm children and send religious folk to the back of the public bus.<\/p>\n<p>Therefore all who believe in protecting children from marinating in sexual imagery and ideas everywhere they go are the new underclass in our political regime, and in many cases no Republican officials will even recognize our legitimate concerns, let alone fight for our daughters. That\u2019s certainly the case here in Indiana, where Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb won\u2019t sign bare-minimum legislation protecting girls\u2019 sports and nobody is even talking about making our libraries, camps, and pools safe for families (even though that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2022\/05\/09\/indiana-republicans-pawned-social-conservatism-for-economic-growth-and-got-neither\/\">one of the few value-added policies<\/a> a state like Indiana can offer its citizens).<\/p>\n<p>Many of our major public and private institutions are making the public square completely hostile to a happy childhood and faith. Their \u201csolution\u201d to alleged bigotry was institutionalizing actual bigotry. \u201cOur kind\u201d aren\u2019t wanted in \u201ctheir\u201d territory, you see. Maybe we would be allowed to have separate pools and summer camps funded by our own money, as long as the ACLU doesn\u2019t sue them out of existence like they do Christian hospitals and foster care agencies.<\/p>\n<p>What we weren\u2019t told was that letting homosexuals out of the closet would require stuffing all the children and Christians inside.<\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Joy Pullmann is executive editor of The Federalist, a happy wife, and the mother of six children. <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.gle\/iX1dsZnedpJjPMoP7\">Sign up here to get early access<\/a> to her next ebook, &#8220;101 Strategies For Living Well Amid Inflation.&#8221; Her bestselling ebook is &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/payhip.com\/b\/R1JL\">Classic Books for Young Children<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Pullmann identifies as native American and gender natural. She is also the author of &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Education-Invasion-Parents-Control-American\/dp\/1594038813\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&#038;qid=1486730068&#038;sr=8-1&#038;keywords=education+invasion\">The Education Invasion: How Common Core Fights Parents for Control of American Kids<\/a>,&#8221; from Encounter Books. In 2013-14 she won a Robert Novak journalism fellowship for in-depth reporting on Common Core national education mandates. <\/p>\n<p>Joy is a grateful graduate of the Hillsdale College honors and journalism programs.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This spring I got an email from 4-H, a club I participated in as a child, effectively communicating that my Christian family need not apply to summer camps and other<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":519,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1488049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/519"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1488049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1488049\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1488049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1488049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1488049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}