{"id":1525370,"date":"2022-06-21T18:04:05","date_gmt":"2022-06-21T22:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1525370"},"modified":"2022-06-21T18:04:20","modified_gmt":"2022-06-21T22:04:20","slug":"when-the-agenda-is-more-important-than-the-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/when-the-agenda-is-more-important-than-the-art\/","title":{"rendered":"When The Agenda Is More Important Than The Art"},"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\">18<\/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%2Fwhen-the-agenda-is-more-important-than-the-art%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=1525370&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--><p>On the same-sex kiss in the new Buzz Lightyear movie, star Chris Evans <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/film\/features\/chris-evans-lightyear-same-sex-kiss-1235293017\/\">lamented<\/a>, \u201cIt makes me happy. It\u2019s tough to not be a little frustrated that it even has to be a topic of discussion.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The launch is, of course, laser-focused on the controversy, as that\u2019s how the film is making headlines. More than that, though, it\u2019s what wins the film and Evans brownie points in Hollywood, where the agenda, not the art, is the primary focus. It\u2019s laughable for Evans to claim he doesn\u2019t want to be spending his time talking about the kiss \u2014 it\u2019s a media gift during Pride Month, especially.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe goal is that we can get to a point where it is the norm, and that this doesn\u2019t have to be some uncharted waters, that eventually this is just the way it is,\u201d Evans went on.<\/p>\n<p>Truly listen to what he\u2019s saying here: The goal isn\u2019t producing a blockbuster or an award winning film; it\u2019s advancing a narrative and a cultural realignment.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>And what of that realignment? We were once told that these kinds of media moments were about encouraging acceptance, but in the last several years, it\u2019s clearly become about recruitment, as well. That effort is evidently working: One in six adults in Generation Z identify as LGBT, according to survey <a href=\"https:\/\/news.gallup.com\/poll\/329708\/lgbt-identification-rises-latest-estimate.aspx\">data<\/a> released last year from Gallup, with the majority considering themselves bisexual.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become an issue of social contagion. A writer for The Washington Post published a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2021\/02\/24\/gen-z-lgbt\/\">story<\/a> on the data reported by Gallup and interviewed a student from my home town of Montgomery County, Maryland who identifies as \u201cnonbinary\u201d and uses they\/them pronouns. The piece began, \u201cJasper Swartz recently realized that nearly all of their friends are \u2018queer in some way.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Parents around the country have told me the same: Their middle and high school students feel boring and uninteresting without some kind of \u201cidentity\u201d they can wear with pride.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>There are also consequences for refusing to participate in Pride and LGBT activism. Recently, five members of the Tampa Bay Rays made national <a href=\"https:\/\/www.npr.org\/2022\/06\/06\/1103303679\/tampa-bay-rays-rainbow-logo-pride-night\">headlines<\/a> for declining to participate in the team\u2019s Pride campaign of adding a rainbow-colored logo onto their uniforms. The message sent by this national shaming was clear: It\u2019s no longer about \u201clive and let live.\u201d You\u2019re either with us, or we\u2019re against you.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Where does this leave parents? They won\u2019t like the answer. It isn\u2019t an easy solution. The reality is: It\u2019s time to opt-out on a great deal of popular culture and fight back. It\u2019s time for us as a society to reckon with the fact that the objective of many activists is no longer pride and acceptance. They want to capture our kids as gender activists, and we cannot allow them to do so.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re seeing it play out nationwide: It\u2019s not enough to opt out of bringing your kid to a Pride Parade when you know there will be sexually explicit images present there; you have to make sure your child\u2019s teacher isn\u2019t reading a book about a transgender child or drag queen to your kindergartner. It isn\u2019t enough to miss seeing \u201cLightyear;\u201d you have to affirmatively and consciously inculcate your child with the lessons and values you want them to grow up believing in. That was the motive behind my decision to co-found a children\u2019s book series called <a href=\"https:\/\/heroesofliberty.com\">Heroes of Liberty<\/a>, which aims to actively promote positive values in children when their literature is awash in radical gender and race ideology.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Americans are already opting out of \u201cLightyear,\u201d which is proving to be a box office <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/gay-kiss-included-woke-toy-story-spinoff-lightyear-struggles-at-box-office\">disappointment<\/a>. Of course, those covering the industry are trying to explain away the numbers, but the fact is, Americans aren\u2019t interested in what they\u2019re selling. However, it\u2019s not enough to avoid seeing a movie or to boycott individual books, movies, and TV shows. American parents have to add, not just keep subtracting.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In its piece on the explosion of youth identifying as LGBT, The Washington Post laid out the path of one student: \u201cJasper grew up scrolling through gay memes on Instagram and following transgender influencers on YouTube. They attended a diverse public middle school in Montgomery County, Md., that taught lessons about sexual orientation and gender identity in health class.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We\u2019ve seen parents nationwide fighting back against this kind of instruction at school board meetings, but parents are also going to have to take the difficult next step of fighting against the tide and firmly saying \u201cno\u201d to smartphones and unlimited internet access to their children. A local mother and professional working in the field of national drug policy told me, \u201cThese kids are facing a reality that we didn\u2019t have to deal with, and we need to preach internet safety. In our little parochial school most kids in my son\u2019s sixth grade have iPhones. People don\u2019t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On the same-sex kiss in the new Buzz Lightyear movie, star Chris Evans lamented, \u201cIt makes me happy. It\u2019s tough to not be a little frustrated that it even has to be a topic of discussion.\u201d The launch is, of course, laser-focused on the controversy, as that\u2019s how the film is making headlines. 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