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NJ Senators: Stop Educational Molestation" -- An Urgent Call for Help In NJ:
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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.
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.
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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.
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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://
[* The Jewish Press carried our letter this week about this bill, for those who prefer to share links (see https://www.
° 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?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?
° I'd also refer skeptics to CDC information (https://www.cdc.gov/std/
* (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].)
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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,
Help Rescue Our Children
US: 845.642.1679
Israeli Hotline: 03.721.3337
When I saw the headline, I thought this was an initiative to end the molestation of boys in yeshivos. Should've know better.
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