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‘They’re turning the frogs gay!’ Twitter reacts to Kellogg’s gay pride cereal that teaches children to choose their own pronouns
25 May, 2021 22:14
© Twitter / Dave Rubin
Corporate America’s alliance with LGBT activism has been brought to the breakfast table with the rollout of a new Kellogg’s gay pride cereal that encourages children to choose their own pronouns.
The “Together With Pride” cereal, which went on sale in stores across the US last week, features rainbow-colored hearts “dusted with edible glitter,” according to Kellogg Co. It was produced in collaboration with the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD). Kellogg’s is donating $3 to the activist group for each box purchased when buyers upload their receipts through a special promotion.
Together With Pride will celebrate that “no matter who you are, who you love or what pronouns you use, you are too awesome to fit into a box,” Kellogg said. GLAAD president Sarah Kate Ellis added that the cereal will create opportunities for families to “have conversations about the importance of acceptance, compassion and understanding,” especially regarding “LGBTQ+” children.
The campaign was mocked on social media, with many users questioning what had become of their favorite Kellogg cartoon characters, such as “Dig’em Frog,” the mascot for Honey Smacks. “They're turning the frogs gay,” said a commenter with the account name “Alex Jones was right.” The post alluded to Jones, a right-wing radio host who was ridiculed for a rant in which he claimed that frogs were being turned gay by chemicals in the water.
Openly gay talk show host Dave Rubin quipped: “I had no idea that Tony the Tiger and Toucan Sam were dating.”
Toucan Sam, the mascot for Froot Loops, is featured on the side of the Together with Pride box, where fans can fill in their own pronouns. The opening tab at the top of the box says, “Lift here to open your heart.” Below that is another label for filling in pronouns.
The Kellogg-GLAAD venture is one in a long line of gay-themed marketing ploys that major corporations are deploying as they gear up virtue-signaling campaigns for Pride Month in June. For instance, Mars Inc. has introduced a Pride-themed version of its Skittles candy, with the colors removed from its rainbow packaging and a note saying, “Only one rainbow matters during Pride.” And Danish toymaker Lego introduced a buildable model featuring a rainbow backdrop and 11 figurines, each with their own hair style, to match each color.
'Virtue-signalling'? What is the virtue being signalled?
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Russian LGBT Network in court as St Petersburg prosecutors demand its Facebook page be blocked for 'negative impact' on kids
28 May, 2021 14:11
FILE PHOTO. An LGBT activist is detained during an unauthorized rally on Dvortsovaya Square at the 9th St. Petersburg Pride. © Sputnik
Prosecutors in Russia have demanded that Facebook block the page of the Russian LGBT Network, with the authorities alleging that it harms the development and health of minors. The profile is followed by over 5,000 people.
The initial complaint was filed by MP Igor Sapko, the former mayor of Perm and a representative of the ruling United Russia party, who said that “propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships is becoming mainstream on many Internet platforms.”
According to the prosecutors, the group creates “an attractive image of homosexuality, leading to the involvement of citizens, especially teenagers, in destructive lifestyles.”
“The materials on the page may have a negative impact on the development of children, provoking an unhealthy interest [in LGBT culture], instilling LGBT values, and involving minors in the LGBT community,” said the press service of a Saint Petersburg court, the city where the group is based.
According to Alexander Belik, a lawyer for the Russian LGBT Network, this is not the first time Saint Petersburg prosecutors have tried to block the organization’s pages.
“It started in 2019 when they targeted a group on [Russian social network] VKontakte,” Belik explained. “Two times they tried to do something with our website. Now they have switched to Facebook.”
The LGBT Network is run by the ‘Sphere’ charity fund, which is deemed by Russia’s Ministry of Justice to be a foreign agent. Founded in 2006, the group seeks to promote LGBT rights inside the country and aspires “to a society in which discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression or sex variances does not exist.”
Virginia gym teacher placed on leave after refusing to say ‘biological boy can be a girl’ at school board meeting
29 May, 2021 10:16
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An elementary school gym teacher in Virginia, US has been placed on leave right after he spoke out against the county school board policy proposal that says teachers must allow students to use gender pronouns of their choice.
Leesburg Elementary School physical education teacher Byron ‘Tanner’ Cross has been placed on leave, Loudoun County Public Schools confirmed to Fox News.
Spokesperson Wayde Byard did not go into the details about the decision regarding Cross, but said that it was “not the principal’s,” and clarified that the teacher had been placed on administrative leave with pay.
The clip of Cross blasting the county’s gender policy during a school board meeting on Tuesday was earlier shared on social media.
“I love all of my students, but I will never lie to them, regardless of the consequences,” he said.
I’m a teacher but I serve God first, and I will not affirm that a biological boy
can be a girl and vice versa, because it’s against my religion.
“It’s lying to a child, it’s abuse to a child, and it’s sinning against our God,”
Tanner Cross
The teacher referenced the county’s draft policy 8040 that says school staff must allow students to use “their chosen name and gender pronouns that reflect their gender identity without any substantiating evidence.” He argued that the change would “damage children, defile the holy image of God.”
Cross told journalist Vince Coglianese on his podcast, The Vince Coglianese Show, that the decision to place him on leave came not from the principal but from Loudon County Public Schools. “I was told that I was disruptive,” the teacher said, describing his visit to the human resources (HR) department.
“HR said, ‘We want to resolve this as quick as possible,’ but that is not my feeling at all,” he said.
Cross added that, during a meeting with HR, he was shown a letter accusing him of having “engaged in conduct that has had a disruptive impact on the operations of Leesburg Elementary School.”
“I wrote to the school board multiple times, [pleading] with them just to sit down and have a conversation… and I never heard anything back from them,” the teacher said.
The Alliance Defending Freedom, a conservative legal group, demanded the school board reinstate Cross and “refrain from any future retaliation against protected speech.” It added that the teacher would be “forced to pursue other legal options to safeguard his rights,” if the board did not back down.
Leesburg, Va
ACLU files lawsuit against Arkansas ban on puberty blockers,
trans surgeries for kids
By Brandon Showalter,
Christian Post Reporter
Friday, May 28, 2021
Arkansas flag flying high beside the Arkansas state Capitol, front exterior, in Little Rock, Arkansas.
| Getty Images
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a lawsuit against the state of Arkansas in federal court, arguing that a new law banning hormonal and surgical gender-transitioning of minors is unconstitutional.
The lawsuit, Brandt et al v. Rutledge et al, is being brought by four Arkansas families who are challenging HB 1570, also known as the Save Adolescents From Experimentation Act. The law bans medical providers from prescribing experimental puberty-blocking drugs and cross-sex hormones to children or performing elective cosmetic surgeries such as double mastectomies and orchiectomy (removal of the testes), on children younger than 18. The law also prohibits insurers and state taxpayers' dollars from funding these practices and allows insurance companies to deny coverage of surgical genital mutilation, chemical castration and related procedures at any age.
The SAFE Act is the first law of its kind in the nation and passed despite a last-minute veto by Gov. Asa Hutchinson, a Republican, who argued that it violated limited government principles. The Republican-majority state Legislature subsequently overrode his veto.
Joining the families in challenging the law are Drs. Michelle Hutchison and Kathryn Stambough, who argue that it prevents them from treating patients with "medically-necessary" care and prevents them from referring them to other providers.
The lawsuit argues that "by prohibiting any medical treatment 'related to gender transition,' [the law] denies adolescents medically necessary treatment and prevents parents from obtaining medically necessary care for their children. It further prohibits doctors from treating their patients in accordance with the well-established standards of care or from referring patients to other doctors to receive the appropriate care."
"It violates the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment because it discriminates on the basis of sex and transgender status by prohibiting certain medical treatments only for transgender patients and only when the care is 'related to gender transition,'" the suit continues.
That constitutional clause states that U.S. states cannot make or enforce laws that "abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
The suit also argues that the Arkansas ban is an affront to free speech, violating the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution by prohibiting doctors from referring their patients in accordance with what they deem as accepted standards of care.
The defendant named in the suit is Attorney General of Arkansas Leslie Rutledge who has vowed to defend the law.
“I will aggressively defend Arkansas’ law which strongly limits permanent, life-altering sex changes to adolescents. I won’t sit idly by while radical groups such as the ACLU use our children as pawns for their own social agenda,” Rutledge said in a statement.
The sponsor of the contested law in the state House, Rep. Robin Lundstrum (R-Elm Springs), said that she was saddened to hear of the legal action against the state's efforts "to protect children from chemical and surgical castration" and that the damage to the human body will be seen from those who regret going through the experimental procedures.
"Our children are incredibly precious and deserve the right to grow up safe and healthy," Lundstrum said.
She added: "I am so thankful that we have a capable attorney general in Leslie Rutledge and her wonderful staff who will fight hard to protect children against those who would harm them for political purposes. Sadly, there will be children in years to come who will be asking, ‘Where were the adults and why didn’t someone say no, this is not healthy for me to do to my body?’"
Why isn't anyone talking about the extraordinary number of transgenders who attempt suicide. There is a clear correlation between the two indicating that mental illness either leads to transgenderism, or transgenderism leads to mental illness or both. Which came first, the chicken or the egg?
Female to male adolescents transgenders reported the highest rate of attempted suicide (50.8% - 150 times normal)
‘Porn literacy’ teacher gets new wave of outrage from parents over videos about masturbation shown to first graders in New York
30 May, 2021 18:24
© REUTERS/Amira Karaoud
A controversial ‘health and wellness’ teacher is back in the spotlight, with parents and critics outraged over ‘educational’ videos on masturbation and consent being shown to first graders.
Justine Ang Fonte, who has said on her website that she has “reveled in disrupting health education for 10 years,” previously triggered parents after details from a “porn literacy” class for students at Columbia Grammar & Preparatory School in New York went public.
She is now the center of attention once again for her work at a similarly expensive New York school, Dalton, which costs over $50,000 a year to attend. Her sex education work there includes teaching six-year-olds about consent and masturbation.
Parents had previously complained about Fonte’s teachings, but were told they had “misinterpreted” her class. Reports of Fonte’s separate “porn literacy” class have renewed outrage over her Dalton teachings.
One video used by Fonte, which was obtained by the New York Post, includes cartoon kids asking about things like masturbation.
“Hey, how come sometimes my penis gets big sometimes and points in the air?” a little boy asks in the cartoon, later adding that he touches himself “because it feels good.”
Similarly, a young girl later inquires about touching her “vulva.”
The school and Fonte have defended the class, saying that the word “masturbation” is never directly used, and children are taught not to touch themselves in public, as well as about consent. Numerous parents, however, argue the class is unneeded for kids so young and aspects of it go too far, like the lessons on consent.
“Literally parents are supposed to say to their kids, May I hug you?” one parent said, according to the Post.
“I’m paying $50,000 to these a**holes to tell my kid not to let her grandfather hug her when he sees her?” an unidentified mother added.
Other parents said they were “furious” and Fonte should not be teaching young children, nor had she ever received consent from parents for her “sexually explicit” lessons.
Details about Fonte’s lessons have now angered far more than just parents of Dalton students, with some even arguing her work could be considered pedophilia.
“In my opinion, she should have to register as a sex offender. This is worse than woke – it’s pedophilic,” conservative author Candace Owens tweeted in reaction to the report on Dalton.
I completely agree with Candace. Erin's Law should be the level of sex-ed teaching in elementary schools.
Fonte’s previous ‘porn literacy’ class also left people scratching their heads. The lessons included images of partially nude women (some in bondage), as well as discussions on “orgasm gaps” and popular search terms on pornographic websites such as “barely legal” and “anal.”
Dr. William M. Donohue, Columbia’s head of school, eventually sent an email to parents apologizing for the course and ensuring them that it does not “represent our philosophy.”
“It was unfortunate that we did not better inform ourselves of the speaker’s specific content in advance,” he said. “In this case, the speaker did not align with our unique CGPS mission and for this, I apologize.”
You should resign for allowing such teaching in your school. how can someone come in and teach classes without anyone knowing what they will teach?
I wonder how many millions of dollars UNICEF spent on the stupidest report ever?
UNICEF Report Says Pornography Not Always Harmful to Children
By Alexis I. Fragosa, Esq.
| May 13, 2021
WASHINGTON, D.C., May 14 (C-Fam) A UN agency is again immersed in controversy for a recent report suggesting there is no conclusive evidence that children exposed to pornography are harmed.
The report published by the UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) addresses how government policy can be used to protect children from harmful, abusive and violent content online. Its conclusion is based on a European study of 19 EU countries that found in most countries, most children who saw pornographic images were “neither upset nor happy.” In fact, the report UNICEF relies on says 39 percent of Spanish children were happy after seeing pornography.
The astounding stupidity is revealed right there. They are measuring the children's emotions during or immediately after viewing pornography. There is no consideration of the long-term effects on the children. The majority of children will be affected in the long-term, to ignore this is at best absurd, and at worst sinister.
I knew a 3-y/o whose parents watched pornography. He enjoyed it so much that he attempted to replicate what he saw on other small children.
Porn fighters disagree with the UNICEF data. “UNICEF’s report ignores the vast body of research demonstrating the harms of pornography to children. By ignoring the real harms pornography can have, UNICEF is playing roulette with children’s health and safety,” said Lisa Thompson, vice president and director of the Research Institute at the National Center on Sexual Exploitation.
Thompson’s organization, which provides expert research to inform policy decisions to end the sexual abuse and exploitation of women and children, has found that pornography can be a central driver of this abuse.
“Mainstream pornography contains horrific sexual abuse, rape, incest, racism – all of which children should not consume,” continued Thompson, and “UNICEF’s milquetoast assessment of the impacts hardcore pornography on children does nothing to challenge the political narrative that pornography is benign, and as a result, puts children in harm’s way.”
The 2020 EU Kids Online Study concluded that some children and young people “intentionally seek out sexual content” for a variety of reasons and that seeing sexual images “might also represent an opportunity” to provide answers to questions about puberty and sexual identity. The study encouraged “seeing the nuances” which lead children to seek out and view sexual content online.
Nuances, like rape, incest, racism, etc.? Also, that women are there for the sexual pleasure of men - probably a main driver in the growth of the culture of rape in schools and colleges.
UNICEF says any efforts to block children from accessing pornography online might infringe on their human rights. UNICEF bases this claim on an expansive interpretation of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.
UNICEF also claims that asking for age-verification to access pornography online may deny children access to what it calls “vital sexuality education.” It should be noted that critics charge “comprehensive sexuality education” is pornographic and harmful to children.
UNICEF’s release of this report comes just days after the U.S. Agency for International Development announced its renewal of its longstanding partnership with UNICEF, committing an additional $300 million in direct program funding. The U.S. is UNICEF’s largest government donor with 2020 funding reaching almost $994 million in humanitarian and development programs.
UNICEF generally has joined the feminist push at the United Nations in calls for abortion. The children’s agency was founded to help displaced children after the Second World War. Critics say UNICEF has strayed far from its founding vision, and that this call for children’s access to pornography under the guise of human rights and sex-ed underscores this change. At one time, the Holy See stopped its annual symbolic donation to UNICEF.
Have paedophiles or the LGBTQ+ lobby reached the top of UNICEF? No wonder some people see paedophiles ruling the world.
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