NJ: Stop Educational Molestation

 

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NJ Senators: Stop Educational Molestation"  --  An Urgent Call for Help In NJ:

Chanukah 5781, Night 1  « 11 Dec., '20 »  Parshas Vayaishev: "va'Yonos Va'yeitzai HaChutzah"

For all those who have influence or contacts in NJ, it's urgent to please help stop pro-LGBT indoctrination in NJ schools, right now. The bill in question, A4454, would require NJ public schools to teach impressionable high school students lessons on "inclusion" and tolerance of people who flaunt their LGBT sins. 

Unfortunately, A4454 ("An Act concerning diversity and inclusion instruction in school districts ... ") already passed the Assembly, and this Monday it passed out of the Senate Education Committee, despite overwhelming public protest. Thus, the battle for children in NJ now moves to the entire NJ Senate, where a full floor vote could potentially come, G-d forbid, very soon - and on criminally short notice. Therefore, please urge all NJ residents to urge their state Senator to vote against bill number A4454 (https://www.njleg.state.nj.us/2020/Bills/A4500/4454_R1.HTM).  Voters need to speak out as SOON as possible, stating that "we'll be unable to vote for" them if they opt to vote to promote LGBT indoctrination of children.

Please call 609-847-3905 or email LegInfo@NJLeg.org. Remember that the entire legislative body in NJ is up for election in '21. We must leverage that now. And we must act on our commitment next year, even if "Orthodox organizations" that claim to speak for Daas Torah sellout our values for financial and political considerations.

°  Please realize that this is a tyrannical bill. Invariably, religious children with any healthy sentiment against sodomy would be demonized, humiliated and terrorized, G-d forbid. This bill would evoke nostalgia from unrepentant Hellenists, longing for the days of the depraved antireligious edicts against which the Chashmonayim fought to the death.

° Furthermore, if we don't take a stand for NJ public school children now, who will come to our defense when it's "our turn" - when OUR religious institutions have to face the LGBT tolerance regime, as we're beginning to see in N.Y. State, with regards to the subtly subversive Educational Equivalency Regulations. (See https://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/09/lgbt-indoctrination-v-education.html, https://firstamendmentactivist.blogspot.com/2020/09/making-educational-equivalency-threat.html.)

[* The Jewish Press carried our letter this week about this bill, for those who prefer to share links (see https://www.jerseyconservative.org/blog/2020/12/9/action-needed-in-new-jersey ).]

°  How to Fight and Win:

This is a battle we can win. We simply 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).  In fact, sodomy is the only sin individually branded "abomination" within the enumeration of sins, preceding the concluding verses of VaYikra 18. Accordingly, the act of sodomy  rises to the level of an "abomination among  abominations;" see the Maharal on the Gemara tractate Chullin 92b, based on VaYikra Chapter 18.

°  "Inclusion" Of Sin Encourages It:

To be effective in pushing back against the outbreak of such LGBT legislation internationally, we must debunk the pervasive myth that "inclusion, welcoming, tolerance" et. al. is per se good, or even innocuous. No, inclusion and tolerance are NOT morally neutral.  When specific categories of volitional conduct are enumerated in legislation [e.g, "sexual orientation," which perforce includes those who flaunt their commission of sodomy with impunity] -  then "inclusion" and tolerance et. al. are actually an endorsement by the State of those forms of conduct.

° Moreover, this bill goes even further than legitimizing sodomy: it pushes state-mandated LGBT indoctrination of high school students.  If we learned anything from the recent years of LGBT advocacy, it's that such advocacy encourages youth to experiment with these sins, and has thereby helped LGBT recruitment of youth (at taxpayer expense, no less).  At the recent virtual Aguda Convention, HoRav Aharon Feldman Shlit"a noted [in his artful demolition of the LGBT argument articulated by LGBT advocate Yechiel Mark Kalish (IL)] that encouraging such "perversions" is precisely the source of the problem (of reportedly peaking suicide rates of  LGBT identifying youth) - by no means its solution.

Those who hail from a modern Orthodox background may want to try to get a copy of remarks by HoRav Y. Ber Soloveitchik OB"M on Homosexuality (YouTube)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4Ag-nYSfrk.

°  I'd also refer skeptics to CDC information (https://www.cdc.gov/std/stats18/msm.htm).  Clearly, LGBT-identifying persons are at grave risk - physically, psychologically, and spiritually - but not from Biblical opponents of the LGBT agenda -- but rather from the very advocates of the LGBT "lifestyle."*

* (Gay "Lifetyle" was a term ridiculed by my first Rebbe in YU, Rav Shlomo Drillman ZT"L [who wisely provided us valuable insights into the LGBT threat, in our first year Bais Medrash Shiur].)

° 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 Haazinu 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.

°  It's about time we send a clear, unapologetically direct message to every single 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 intent on channeling the ancient Greeks and their Hellenist enablers.

Have an uplifting and fruitful Chanukah, and a Good Shabbos,

Rabbi Noson Shmuel Leiter,

Executive Director,

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