Minnesota's Department of Indoctrination and Perversion

Doug Warlow's op-ed is certain to connect with Christians and civil libertarians. It isn't likely to be appreciated by hard-left DFL politicians. So be it. Wardlow's op-ed states "The state’s Department of Education has proposed new K-12 health education standards, including a suite of benchmarks on sexual health that, if adopted, would not only flout Minnesota law but also trample on the First Amendment right of parents to direct the religious upbringing of their children. These proposals aren’t just misguided policy—they represent a profound invasion by the state into the sphere of faith and family."

Then Wardlow gets specific, saying "take kindergarteners—five- and six-year-olds—who would be required to use 'medically accurate terms for body parts, including genitals.' Children will be compelled to discuss these sensitive matters in a classroom setting under the instruction of an authority figure who might be a member of the opposite sex. That’s not education; it’s an age-inappropriate intrusion that overrides parents’ careful choices about when and how to broach these topics.

The problems compound in third grade, where eight- and nine-year-olds must “describe internal and external reproductive body parts using medically accurate terms in a gender-neutral way.” But human biology obviously isn’t gender-neutral—male and female reproductive systems are fundamentally different. How can a benchmark demand something that’s biologically impossible while claiming to be objective?

Fox9 News's report:

Dr. Meg Bartlett-Chase offered her opinion, saying "Sex education isn't something that we need to be scared of. It's not something that we need to have shame about." That's a subjective opinion. That's hardly objective. Dr. Bartlett-Chase is the founder and executive director of Honest Sex Ed. She's offering her opinion on a subject she wants her company to teach. If she might benefit financially from the class getting taught, that's definitely a conflict of interest.

It's time for Gov. Walz and the DFL to stop pushing age-inappropriate material, especially to children this young. This isn't objective. It's ideological. Period. Further, it's inappropriate to teach material that doesn't have a solid scientific base to it. If Dr. Chase-Bartlett thinks that people born with 2 X chromosomes is the same as a person born with 1 X chromosome and 1 Y chromosome, then she isn't a scientist. She's an activist.

Let parents teach their kids about these things. At minimum, parents should have the initial and the final say in these matters.