Cock-and-Turnbull Pieties

Platitudinous drivel! That is what we are now coming to expect from Malcolm Turnbull, and he has remained true to form with his utterances about the absurdly named ‘Safe Schools Coalition’ program, designed by LGBTI militants to socialize pre-teen Years 7 & 8 into accepting that heterosexuality has no biological basis and is merely a socially constructed choice with no more inherent normality or legitimacy than homosexuality, bisexuality, intersexuality, or transgenderism.

Conservative politicians, including Nationals MP George Christensen, are warning that the program is both insidious and indistinguishable from the ‘grooming’ methods employed by pedophiles. Christensen also warned that it promotes pornographic content, sex shops, and sex clubs, while also directing youngsters to websites that provide advice on sex toys, sadomasochism, and how to deceive their parents. Despite all this, Turnbull has failed to reject green-left demands that he “slap down” conservative MPs, like Christensen, who criticize the program. Indeed, to the extent that his sincerity can be believed, he virtually endorsed the activist position.

“I encourage everybody who is discussing these issues to do so in very measured language — and to consider very carefully the impact of the words they use on young people and on their families,” Turnbull warned ominously, apparently more concerned with the progressivist backlash and the alleged hurt feelings of a tiny minority, than with the vast majority of children and parents who are presently being exposed to the outrageous propaganda promoted in the Safe Schools campaign.

Turnbull went on to discourse at length (as usual) about “mutual respect”, “the strength of our society”, the danger of bullying, and so on, as if the only way to protect sexually confused or inquisitive children from bullying is to launch a nationwide campaign of intense social engineering designed explicitly to denigrate heterosexuality and advocate LGBTI life-styles to hundreds of thousands of 12- and 13-year-old children.

A primary teaching resource of the program, All of Us (funded by the Victorian Labor government), explicitly instructs these children to contact a list of LGBTI advocacy groups and access their websites for information. As The Australian has independently confirmed (“Schools program ‘like grooming’”, 26/2), if students find these sites blocked at school they are told to challenge their teachers and insist that access is to them is important.

Students are also given advice on how to “cover your tracks” when accessing these or similar LGBTI websites, so as not to alert their parents or teachers to what they are doing.

So much for ‘mutual respect’!

We should be under no illusions about where this is all heading. As distasteful as it might be, we need only think for a moment about the sort of questions that will arise in the minds of 12- and 13-year-old children as they try to get to grips not only with the nature and mechanics of heterosexual activity, but also comprehend the possibilities and intricacies of male and female homosexual, bisexual, and transgender sexual activity.

As an ex-teacher who has taught at this level I can well imagine the welter of hands that will spring up once this particular can of worms has been opened. I can also easily imagine the outrage that will be unleashed once the students have gone home and confronted mum and dad with the erotic mysteries of the so-called LGBTI ‘community’.

Ultimately, it is difficult not to conclude that Turnbull either: (a) doesn’t know what’s in the Safe Schools program, and therefore doesn’t know what he’s talking about; (b) does know but doesn’t care; or (c) knows very well what’s in it, wants very much to promote it, and is indeed prepared to “slap down” any Coalition MP who gets in its way.

As an arch-progressivist, Turnbull is very comfortable with the idea that the state should be involved in the most intimate areas of the everyday lives of citizens. Consequently, he was initially quite relaxed about education minister Simon Birmingham’s promotion and defence of the campaign, only calling for a ‘review’ (which will undoubtedly be a whitewash) when conservative public opinion and political pressure became irresistible.

However, one wonders whether Turnbull (or his wife) will be so relaxed were the issue to become as personal for them as it now is for ordinary parents struggling to deal with early adolescent children being prematurely exposed to aggressive LGBTI propaganda.  How will Grandpa and Grandma Turnbull react when their own grandchildren reach that age and encounter the Safe Schools or another future LGBTI propaganda campaign?

Will they be able to elevate themselves to the dizzy heights of relaxed libertinism and cultural relativism occupied by progressivists when the issue becomes as real for them as they have made it for the rest of us? Or will they come crashing down to earth when the political become the personal for them too?

Tragically, even if they do, it may be far too late for many innocent kids made victims of progressivist social engineering and ushered into adulthood with nothing but confusion and fear about their sexuality.