Our understanding of what we think is true constantly changes. At least, it does if we continue to learn.

When I was in high school, for example, my science textbook unequivocally stated that the entire universe consisted of 16 galaxies. Period. Now, more than sixty years later, we do not know how many galaxies there are.

Because there are so many. 

NASA estimates there are hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with billions of stars. There are so many we don’t have the capability to count them all. What we understand to be true evolves as we expand our knowledge.

Unfortunately, we don’t always change what we believe despite being confronted with overwhelming evidence that what we believe is not true.

In his book, The Half-Life of Facts, Samual Arbesman observes that while the facts change, we often don’t. Arbesman writes,

“(e)ven if we are confronted with facts that should cause us to update our understanding of the way the world works, we often neglect to do so.  We persist in only adding facts to our personal store of knowledge that jibe with what we already know, rather than assimilate new facts irrespective of how they fit into our worldview.”

We tend to believe what we already believe. And too often, we double down on what we believe, on what we know to be true, even when it isn’t.

The Gay and Lesbian Independent School Teachers Network (now known as the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network—GLSEN) was founded in 1990 by Kevin Jennings.

The organization’s stated mission is to eliminate discrimination, harassment and bullying of LGBT students in grades K-12, and it is carried out by forming Gay Straight Alliances in our schools. A seemingly noble mission. Ten years ago, in 2014, there were 3,600 such alliances operating in schools throughout the U.S.

As of 2023, 44 percent of middle schools and high schools in the U.S. have Gay, Straight Alliance clubs. That translates into about 17,600 clubs, five times more over a ten-year period. Much of this increase was the result of the efforts directed by the U.S. Department of Education (DOE).

Between 2009 and 2011, Kevin Jennings of GLSEN served as the Safe Schools Czar, officially the Deputy Secretary for the Office of Safe and Drug-Free Schools. Jennings was behind the letter the DOE sent out in 2010 that directed all schools to take action to prevent discrimination, harassment, and bullying.

I mentioned this letter in my last article but did not discuss Jennings’ involvement. Jennings promoted establishing GSAs in schools under the guise of reducing discrimination, harassment, and bullying.

Jennings, an openly gay man and former teacher in Massachusetts, claimed that desensitizing children to LGBT lifestyles by promoting alternate sexualities was the best solution. To do that, he devised a scheme to force schools to accommodate his approach.

Schools throughout the country did just that, largely without the knowledge or consent of parents, by using a DOE letter to direct the schools rather than propose regulations.

In addition to teaching that children are born homosexual, or at least born with a homosexual orientation or identity, GLSEN tries to advance understanding of non-traditional sexual practices and that these practices are normal.

They also teach children how to engage in non-traditional sexual activities “safely” (as though that’s possible). As the theory goes, if children understand each other’s sexual activities, they are less likely to harass, discriminate, and bully them.

This is all false.

The whole GLSEN/GSA operation is nothing more than a massive effort to sexualize children and groom as many of them as possible into a homosexual lifestyle.

In our effort to avoid being called homophobic, Americans by the millions embraced GLSEN and other groups like them. We have expanded sex education programs in schools. We have endorsed sex education materials that incorporate hard-core pornography.

We have stocked school library shelves with gay and straight romantic novels littered with pornographic narratives. We have encouraged children to attend organized obscenities masquerading as gay pride parades.

We have taught children how to engage in all manner of sexual activities and have let them decide when and with whom to indulge their desires. We have jettisoned Victorian moralizing, choosing to be sexually enlightened instead.

Kinsey freed us.

Sexually active children will be healthier children. Planned Parenthood says so. These kids are going to have sex anyway, so why not teach them how to hook up safely and how to avoid getting pregnant?

At least, that’s the narrative.

It isn’t working the way the people who would like us to think they had good intentions expected. In the last 40 years, our culture has gone from sexualized to hypersexualized. Pornography is everywhere, and children are becoming addicted to it at earlier and earlier ages, as young as 9 or 10.

Some middle school girls are becoming pregnant, and some middle school boys are becoming hardcore sexual predators. And the bullying and harassment is still going strong.

In fact, it is getting worse.

The truth is, more than 40 years ago, Alfred Kinsey’s findings were proven to be not only wrong but fraudulent. What we thought were facts weren’t. The same is true of John Money’s claims about gender. It’s been more than 20 years since his assertions about his research were proven to be fabricated.

Both Kinsey and Money were frauds, as were their theories.

Yet we continue to promote Kinsey’s and Money’s views of sex despite knowing they were liars and frauds, that their theories—the foundation of all “modern” understanding of human sexuality—are completely false.

Because of these men and their acolytes and minions, children today are more vulnerable to exploitation by sexual predators than they ever have been since our country was founded. We need to do something different right now.

How about we start by once again protecting childhood innocence? Let’s once again hold that up as a value and organize our educational system around that principle.

Some facts and truths don’t change. One such eternal truth is that childhood innocence should be protected, whatever the cost.