By Sheri Few for TOWNHALL
Those of us who opposed the legalization of same‑sex marriage did so not only because of our faith, but also because we understood the broader cultural shift it would set in motion. We knew the debate was never simply about hospital visitation or inheritance rights. It was about redefining long‑standing social norms in ways that would inevitably expand into new categories of perverse sexual identities.
A decade later, the consequences are plain to see. We now face a nationwide surge in gender confusion, especially among children. Government schools are introducing these harmful concepts at increasingly younger ages, often without parental knowledge or consent.
A California school district has adopted “gender support plans” that effectively sideline parents, designating them as potential barriers to a child’s chosen identity. The plans contain provisions targeting so‑called unsupportive parents and require schools to provide confidential counseling services that, by law, must be kept hidden from parents once a child reaches age 12 and does not consent to disclosure.
Even more troubling is the emergence of rhetoric attempting to sanitize or rebrand toxic behavior termed “Minor Attracted Person” (MAP). Advocates claim this is merely another sexual identity that shouldn’t be stigmatized, a notion that is both dangerous and morally indefensible. This trajectory points toward the normalization of pedophilia, something we have already seen glimpses of in the Epstein network and its enablers. As a society, we cannot continue granting legitimacy to these distortions of human sexuality, especially within taxpayer‑funded institutions charged with educating children. It is time to draw firm boundaries and reject the steady erosion of moral standards in the name of ideological progress.
