To bring more awareness to what children are being exposed to today, the Dallas Jewish Conservatives (DJC) organization held an event on April 28 titled “Protect Our Children.”
The panel of speakers included Texas State Senator Bob Hall, sex educator and author Audrey Werner, State Republican Executive Committee member Jill Glover, and Texas House candidate Jeff Younger.
During a Q&A session, the panelists gave their thoughts on the education and influence of today’s youth in school and in society as a whole. They all agreed that schools need to revert to traditional learning and include religion in government and the school system.
“Society wants to keep politics and religion separate, but you cannot separate the two,” said Senator Hall. “If you do, you have immoral people, and that will not work. We have drifted away from God. We took prayer and God out of our schools.”
Hall reflected on growing up and how his parents’ generation was based on biblical principles. He says the rates of teen pregnancy, drug use, and violence have increased with that foundation removed. Religion’s absence from society, according to Hall, has paved the way for children to be exposed to sexual content and pro-transgender ideology.
Concern about children’s introduction to a pro-transgender ideology is an issue of personal relevance for Younger. The House candidate is currently in the midst of a court battle because his former wife has allowed one of their children to socially identify as a girl. According to Younger, his son is happy identifying as a boy when he is with his father, but his ex-wife argues it was the child’s choice to wear dresses and go by a traditionally female name.
Younger says an interview he previously conducted with a pro-transgender doctor made him question all medical personnel who encourage children to use transgender hormones or undergo surgical sex reassignment procedures.
“I asked Johanna Olson Kennedy, ‘How many pubescent girls have you referred for total mastectomies?’ She said around 250,” claimed Younger. “So she, one doctor, had referred 250 pubescent girls for mastectomies. I asked her the same for boys, and she said maybe three-quarters of the [number of the] girls. It’s a huge problem.”
“What are we to make of professions in the State of Texas that will do this to children?” he added.
Even though Younger lost custody of his children, he says the fight continues. Younger insists that children can easily be influenced because being transgender has become normalized.
“The meaning of sex has changed in the culture,” says Younger. “We don’t even use the word sex anymore. We don’t say, ‘What sex is your child?’ We ask, ‘What gender is your child?’ and that was done intentionally.”
Werner, who has previously worked in a school system and as a nurse for a sexually transmitted disease clinic, feels sexually suggestive content is more prevalent now because it is pushed on the public.
“Media and Hollywood have been promoting this new sexual immorality,” said Werner. “It’s indoctrination. They (society) are trying to make it normal. If we see it over and over again, if we laugh at it, then it becomes normal. The abnormal perverse is becoming the new normal.”
She wants parents and others within the community to raise a generation that will deviate from normalizing sexual immorality and teach them that taking part in sexual acts as children and adolescents is not standard.
In agreement with Werner, Hall wants parents to stand up and reclaim their rights as parents.
“Parents are responsible for their children,” said the senator. “They’re responsible for their health and their education. However, there are some who believe it is the school’s responsibility to indoctrinate the kids any way that they want to.”
Hall said that the school system has moved away from teaching the essential subjects that children attend school to learn and toward a learning structure that asks, “How do you feel about this?” He says this marks the abandonment of fundamental education principles.
Dallas Jewish Conservatives are dedicated to preserving Jewish and conservative values, beliefs, and teachings. The group’s next event, called “A New Age of Warfare,” will be held on May 19 at 6:30 p.m. According to the website, the discussion will cover the potential threat posed by China and the information DJC believes every American needs to know about the Chinese Communist Party and recent world events.