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NJ: Stop Educational Molestation -- Making Hellenist Legislation Grave Again (revision of 25 Kislev post)
Chanukah 5781, Fifth Night (29 Kislev) « 15 Dec., '20 » Parshas Mikaitz
Urgently Needed: assistance in stopping state-indoctrination of immorality in NJ schools. A NJ
bill, operating number A4454, would require NJ public schools to teach
impressionable high-school students lessons on "inclusion" and tolerance
of individuals who flaunt their immorality, specifically those sins
deemed "abomination" in VaYikra (Lev.) 18:22 and 20:13. Unfortunately, A4454 ("An Act concerning diversity and inclusion instruction in school districts ...
") already passed the Assembly. Last Monday, Dec. 7, it passed out of
the Senate Education Committee, despite overwhelming public protest. The
battleground for NJ youth has now shifted to the entire NJ Senate,
where a full floor vote could potentially come, G-d forbid, very soon -
and on outrageously short notice. Therefore, it's imperative for all NJ residents to urge their own state Senator to vote against bill number A4454 (https://www.njleg.state.nj.
Thankfully,
the entire legislative body in NJ is up for election in '21. We must
leverage that, and act on our commitment to vote against offending
legislators next year, even if organizations that ostensibly speak for
us sell out for financial and political considerations.
°
The average parent needs to understand that is a tyrannical bill. We
as Jews have the ability to articulate that message to the broader
public. Invariably, children caught expressing any healthy sentiment
against perversion would be demonized, humiliated - and even possibly
terrorized - for expressing legitimate objections, G-d forbid. This
rigid intolerance of morality and righteous dissent resembles the
depraved, antireligious Greek edicts, against which the Chashmonayim
fought to the death to eradicate, about 2,200 years ago.
°
Furthermore, if we don't take a stand for NJ public school children
now, then who will come to our defense when it's "our turn" - when OUR
religious institutions have to face the "Tolerance" regime of the Left?
The direct assault against religious institutions is something we've
being seeing in N.Y. State, in the subtle subversion of "Educational
Equivalency" Regulations. (See https://
We also must not forget
about all of the Jewish kids unfortunately attending public schools,
including some Orthodox youth as well. We will be judged by our level of
concern for them.
° How to Fight and Win:
This
is a battle we can win. True, this bill has not been stopped - as long
as we've been derelict in not properly fighting it. That fact is no
reason to buy the lie that this is a losing battle. It's clearly not, if
we'd only intelligently engage. When the Orthodox community puts its
efforts into a worthy cause for the right reasons, we generally see
wonderful surprises. To dub it a losing battle before beginning to
really fight is a line of thinking that - if similarly applied in 1939 - would naturally have resulted in most WWII survivors speaking German today.
° What To Do:
We
just need to properly alert the public, in time, that this legislation
is not about saving innocent kids. Rather, it is all about
*legitimizing* harmful choices, choices to flaunt unhealthy conduct,
acts branded by the Torah as "abomination" (VaYikra 18:22, 20:13).
Q) How bad really is it, from a Torah perspective?
A)
Sodomy is the ONLY sin specifically branded "abomination" within the
individual enumeration of sins, in VaYikra, Chapter18 (at the end of
which all of those acts are branded "abominations"). Accordingly, the
act of sodomy rises to the level of an "abomination among abominations"
- the most depraved of them all - as explained by the Maharal on the
Gemara Chullin 92b.
It is no wonder then that
our Sages exhort us (in the name of Rabbi Yossi) that recognition of
same-sex marriages triggered the annihilation of Civilization via the
Great Flood (VaYikra Rabbah 23:9, on VaYikra 18:3). This needs some
explanation. From a Torah perspective, social recognition of sin, and -
how much more so - legislating sin - is far worse than individual
commission of sin.
The Chassam Sofer (d. circa 1840,
Pressburg, in "Toras Moshe," Ber. 6:13) explains that societal
justification of sin perpetuates that sin, thereby closing the door to
the prospect of repentance, leaving society as hopelessly lost. Society
recognizing same-sex marriage is perhaps the ultimate vindication of the
sin of sodomy (see B'nayahu, Chullin, ibid.) Thus, cause for the
destruction of the world.
Consequences: Crime Doesn't Pay:
Our
Sages add (ibid.; Tanchuma Ber., end; Bamidbar Rabbah 9:33) that
rampant immorality prompts Divine punishment in the form of
"Andarlomusia" (loosely translated as "Retribution of Mass-
Destruction") - the mass-killing of bad people along with good ones*
(something we've experienced a lot since March).
*
[It's crucial to explain the flawlessness of Divine Justice here. There
is unwavering Justice in every single punishment that G-d delivers. In
most cases, good people avoid severe punishment for their sins, out of
immense Divine Compassion, providing more than ample time for
repentance. However, in extreme circumstances, G-d holds His Compassion
back - perhaps because its continuity would result in irreparable harm -
allowing Divine Justice a freer reign.]
Q) But How Can We Oppose "Inclusion"?
A) "Inclusion" Of Harmful Sin Encourages It:
To
be effective in pushing back against the outbreak of such anti-moral
legislation internationally, we must debunk the pervasive myth that
"inclusion, welcoming, tolerance" et. al. is per se good, or even
innocuous. Inclusion and tolerance are NOT morally neutral. When
specific categories of willful, hazardous conduct are enumerated in
legislation [e.g, "sexual orientation," which perforce includes those
who flaunt their commission of aforementioned sins with impunity] - then
"inclusion" and tolerance et. al. are actually an endorsement by the
State of those acts/sins. It's important to emphasize that this
endorsement (to an extent, even prior to actual passage) encourages
conduct which is physically harmful as well:
"Sell Them 'Liberty' - and Give Them Death:"
° This pro-LGBT legislation poses a physical threat to youth by encouraging dangerous practices, as evidenced by the CDC itself (https://www.cdc.gov/std/
Corona vs. STDs:
° The plague of Corona highlights
the lethal hypocrisy of the Left. They go to extremes in the name of
protecting people from the spread of the Corona. However, when it comes
to homosexual acts - known to spread multiple diseases - they're
actively proselytizing them to youth. When it comes to promoting the
regressive agenda, lives don't matter.
Indoctrination is NOT Education:
°
Moreover, this bill goes even further than legitimizing sodomy: it
advances state-mandated LGBT indoctrination of high school youth.
Furthermore,
if we learned anything from the recent years of LGBT advocacy, it's
that such advocacy encourages youth to experiment with these sins.
Thereby, it's aided and abetted LGBT recruitment of youth (at taxpayer
expense, no less).
At the recent virtual Aguda Convention, Rav
Aharon Feldman Shlit"a (Yeshivas Ner Yisroel) noted [in his artful
demolition of a primary LGBT argument] that encouraging such
"perversions" by teaching about LGBT role models is precisely the source
of the problem (of reportedly peaking suicide rates of LGBT
identifying youth) - by no means its solution.
Rav Yosef B. Soloveitchik OB"M refers to the desire by some people to commit a (moral) crime and feel good about it too. {https://www.youtube.com/
Additionally, this type of legislation also encourages unbridled shamelessness about these sins. Shamelessness is
a character trait that leads to the dissolution of society, inasmuch as
in absence of the foundational human trait of shame, brazen theft and
discord become rampant. Shamelessness becoming pervasive was another
factor in the annihilation of civilization in the Flood (see Chassam
Sofer, Droshos, vol. 2, 293a, "Bamidbar," quoted in Toras Moshe ibid.,
note 4).
°°°
°
In summary, we need to put NJ Senators on defense here: *teaching*
children tolerance, inclusion and welcoming of sinful acts clearly
legitimizes said acts in their eyes, and for society. State
legitimization of such misconduct (1) constitutes an open rebellion
against G-d (Rashi Ha'azinu 32:16); (2) runs counter to welcoming,
including and tolerating of religious students; (3) is psychologically
abusive and medically dangerous for kids; (4) is patently fraudulent -
via marketing indoctrination as Education; and (5) thus extends well
beyond the educational mandate of the government.
Exposing the LGBT Supremacist Movement:
It
appears that the only reason that such legislation passes without much
opposition is because it promotes LGBT, rather than other forms of
immorality. Would they have the chutzpa to vote for bills explicitly
pushing inclusion of flagrant practitioners of bestiality or adultery,
even in localities in which they're legal? So why is LGBT being given a
pass? Is it partly because the underlying agenda is to promote the
ancient Greek lie that homosexuality is "the highest form of love
(sic)?"
° It's about time we send a clear, unapologetically direct message to every legislator:
"We encourage and enable the immoral, destructive, exploitive, and lethal acts that we tolerate,
'include,' and welcome."
Then
and only then can we expect to defeat these inherently antireligious
edicts, G-d willing, edicts whose sponsors seem to be channeling the
ancient Greeks and their Hellenist enablers.
Wishing the readers an uplifting and fruitful Chanukah, and a Good Chodesh,
NSL
by Rabbi
Noson Shmuel Leiter, Executive Director, Help Rescue Our
Children, Combating sexual abuse and exploitation in the U.S. and abroad
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