I’m no longer blown away by what is happening in this lawsuithappy threatening society we live in.
It’s a type of “bullying” tossed around because companies won’t do this or they do this, words spoken that upset one side or the other, beliefs not jiving with this side or that, etc.
Bibles are being pulled from schools and history is not being taught because it doesn’t match whatever agenda those people have. America is losing its values by the minute.
In California, which is as radical a state as there is in our great country, LGBTQ+ members believe their topics are appropriate to teach at elementary schools and without the approval of parents.
“I think it’s really important to be factual about content,” said Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member Kelly Gonez. “It is age-appropriate and it’s simply about providing inclusive, welcoming environments to all of our students and families.”
Many parents with Christian beliefs were not happy.
“It’s frustrating the school didn’t tell parents about the topic ahead of time,” an Instagram page called Saticoy Elementary Parents posted about Pride. “This is an inappropriate topic for our kids!”
A day earlier at Kellogg High School in Kellogg, Idaho, seniors shared advice for lowerclassmen.
One, Travis Lohr, departed from his preapproved remarks with the statement, “Guys are guys and girls are girls. There is no in-between.”
Despite the fact that this simple statement has been a truism for all of human history, the leadership of Kellogg High School seemed to think it was unacceptable. Principal Dan Davidian informed Lohr that he would not be allowed to walk in his graduation ceremony schedule for Saturday, June 3.
“I didn’t direct it at any groups or anything like that,” said Lohr. “It was just something I chose to say in the moment. There was a short pause, and then an uproar of cheers.”
At least 100 students and parents gathered outside the school Friday morning, including a popular bus driver named Dakota Mailloux who decided to join the walkout on his own time. Before the protest had even finished, Mailloux was called into Davidian’s office and summarily fired with no specific reason given.
“I saw the thing on Facebook last night about how he was not being allowed to walk because of his very factual assertion that there is only two genders, and it did not sit well with me,” explained Mailloux.
Shortly before lunch Friday, Kellogg High School released a statement postponing their graduation ceremony. In the statement, they blamed “outside groups and agitators” for threatening the safety of students, staff, and families.
Late Friday afternoon, Kellogg School District Superintendent Lance Pearson met with the parents of the graduating class. The ceremony was re-scheduled for Saturday morning.
Which brings me to the famous line Jack Nicholson’s character Colonel Nathan R. Jessup shouted at Tom Cruise’s character Lieutenant (JG) Daniel Alistair Kaffee in the 1992 movie “A Few Good Men” — “You can’t handle the truth.
• Rick Head is the Publisher and Editor of The Brantley Beacon and the Waycross Journal-Herald. He can be reached at [email protected]
