By Carolyn Martin (CHEC Director of Government Relations)
The Truth is Not Foolishness
“How is this?” said the Emperor to himself. “I can see nothing! This is indeed a terrible affair! Am I a simpleton, or am I unfit to be an Emperor? That would be the worst thing that could happen – Oh! The cloth is charming,” he said aloud. “I approve of it completely.”
Excerpt from “The Emperor’s New Clothes” by Hans Christian Andersen
It seems we are caught in a place, much like the Emperor, where we are afraid to speak the truth for fear of being called a fool. There is a movement gaining momentum sweeping across our culture gobbling up our children, especially our girls. It claims that girls can be boys, boys can be girls, or more radically, girls and boys can be sexless. Speaking the truth makes you a fool, or worse, in the eyes of the gatekeepers of our current culture. Much like the people in the story, many who know the truth stay silent in the face of the greatest evil to plague our children today. It’s time to say, like the little child in the story, “But the Emperor has nothing at all on!” Staying silent should not be an option for those who love the Creator who made us.
A bill (HB24-1039 Non-Legal Name Change) will be heard in the Senate Education Committee on Monday, March 25th at 1:30 PM. It attempts to criminalize anyone not using an individual’s “chosen name” under the guise of “gender expression” discrimination. While the bill title only speaks about students in schools, Section 4 of the bill clearly makes it applicable to all employment, housing, or places of public accommodation situations. If this bill passes, no place in society will be immune from the requirement to acquiesce to a man-made truth which violates God’s created order. We are being forced to accept the unacceptable and affirm the unaffirmable.
The proposed bill is really about engraining in our society’s psyche the religious tenets of the “queer cult.” Logan Lansing explains the queer cult in his substack article.
The Queer Cult has total control of our national discourse as it relates to sex, “gender,” and sexuality. Our children are fed a steady diet of cult doctrine through mainstream media, social media, popular culture, the psychiatrists they consult, and the doctors their parents trust. Not least of which, our children attend schools that universally push the idea that children can be “born in the wrong body.” America’s children learn that they have “gender identities” that might not match their “sex assigned at birth.” A Medical Industrial Complex waits in the wings with irreversible puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and “gender affirming” surgeries.
(For more on the business of transgenderism, read Christopher Rufo’s article The Business of Transgenderism)
This is the time for us to stand up and proclaim the truth! Children are being harmed. Families are being torn apart. Our entire society is being changed. If you feel led, sign up to testify on this bill here and email the Senate Education Committee and ask them to vote against this bill. See my blog post from February for more about this bill. Note: The bill was rewritten in the House, please speak only to the current version of the bill which no longer contains the task force.
Homeschool Day at the Capitol
Don’t forget to register for CHEC’s Homeschool Day, Thursday, April 11th at the Capitol, where we will be celebrating our 30th year of holding a rally on the West Steps of the Capitol to support homeschool freedom in Colorado. Your presence is essential!
Trusting in the mighty power and grace of Jesus,
Carolyn Martin,
CHEC Director of Government Relations
Carolyn@chec.org
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