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Bears Repeating

 The local press completely ignored Chris Barrett's speech at the October 2024 Board meeting. It didn't fit the narrative they are spreading in our community.

 

I’m reposting this because this speech is very important on many levels. For one thing this is a great abbreviation of what I believe. But it also shows why all of us, gay or straight, need to be in on this fight together. We are protecting each other. Most importantly we are… https://t.co/DqBTnFVuO7

— Chris ✡️🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈 (@midwesthomo77) November 24, 2024

The Sales Pitch Meets Reality

 The Christian County Library has many books advocating for gender ideology. They are geared toward toddlers up to teens. But the staff who purchase these books apparently aren't aware of the tragic reality affecting girls and boys who have suffered through surgical mutilations.

Parents and grandparents. Citizens and local leaders. Is this what our taxpayer-funded libraries should be proffering to our most vulnerable citizens?

You can scroll the internet for hours reading about people’s botched surgeries:
fake vaginas smelling like feces, genitals falling off their bodies, nipples falling off, scars tearing open…

It would be great if the Trump admin could create an outreach program and increase the…

— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) November 9, 2024

 

WARNING--GRAPHIC PICTURES BELOW.

Selling the Abyss

Can be found HERE in the CCL

By Gretchen Garrity

Well-meaning local liberals often frame the issue of gender ideology, sexually explicit and age-inappropriate books in the library as a free speech issue. This could not be further from the truth.

Ideologues in places far removed from Christian County, have been using that argument to deflect from the very dark agenda that is at the bottom of providing  such materials to children. Not only is this agenda spread throughout our nation in schools, libraries, and other government institutions, but it has permeated the corporate world through policies that promote special transgender rights and the forced use of preferred pronouns when addressing transgender and/or queer individuals.

Found HERE in the CCL

Controlling the use of language through forced speech is the tip of the spear for bringing radical change to our understanding of social and political issues. If children can be trained (through Social Emotional Learning) to give up their right to free speech through a misplaced sense of compassion and inclusion, then they can be trained to give up other rights and to deprive others of their rights.

 Jennifer Bilek, a journalist who has written extensively on gender ideology for over a decade, gives us a glimpse into the abyss. And it is truly an abyss.

In her article, "Gender Rights Are AI Rights," Bilek explains why children are a focal point:

"The LGBTQI+ political infrastructure of today is being used to drive body dissociation toward human symbiosis with AI, which Silicon Valley has been promising us since the early 2000s.

Children are being groomed for industrial body dissociation, to think of their wholly sexed anatomy as commodities...The children are essential to get on board for changing our perceptions of ourselves as a binary-sexed species so that technology can overtake the reproductive capacities of humanity toward this union.   

All the harms manifesting out of gender ideology are downstream of the concept being forced on society, through tyrannically compelled language that there is another type of being that is beyond male and female. Contrary to popular thought, this is not about anyone having body dysphoria, or a special identity, or protections for people who are same-sex attracted. It is a virtual reality being constructed out of institutionalized language that deconstructs what it means to be a human, as we now think of ourselves.

 This is the entire point of gender ideology; to deconstruct the way humanity thinks of itself. Children are ground zero for this indoctrination. Gender ideology - the ideology promoting industrial body dissociation - has been institutionalized in children’s health curriculums in schools, their libraries, TV programming, social media, and presents wherever children are in the culture. Changing children’s perceptions of themselves as whole, biologically sexed systems, is what gender ideology does."

 

Further, she states, "Understanding that the reconfiguration of ourselves as a sexually dimorphic species - and especially the perceptions of children - for a technological usurpation of human reproduction is underway, is difficult. This process of gr--ming has been attached to the human rights political apparatus for people who are same-sex attracted. All the messages and propaganda tell us that these changes are for a marginalized sexual identity, when in fact this ideology deconstructs the sex binary, upon which same-sex attraction exists."

 

Please read Bilek's article in its entirety. It lays out the case that the gender ideology agenda is so much more than the farcical "right to read" the American Library Association pushes in its relentless indoctrination of librarians. 

 

Found HERE in the CCL

 

The deconstruction of our sexed reality (male and female) is the stuff of dystopian films, but nevertheless it is a reality that we must grapple with and defeat on every level of society. In Christian County it means coming to terms with the stubborn insistence of providing children and teens unrestricted access to books  they are not prepared to emotionally and intellectually process, and to take from parents the right to decide what their child can and cannot read.

Local activists often say that any effort to accommodate parent rights is an abrogation of the rights of other parents who may want their children to have access to books that are sexually explicit, promote transgender ideology, etc. Indeed, even labeling books is considered censorship and a soft form of banning books, we are told.

Found HERE in the CCL

 

 This is an inconsistent and flawed argument. Claiming books that are often featured in library displays during "Banned Books Week" as "banned" or "censored," is self-evidently untrue! Often during Pride Month books are happily labeled with LGBTQ stickers in bright rainbow displays. So how can it be considered stigmatizing or a form of censorship if those same books are labeled as such on the shelves? How is it "banning" a book to have it located where it is accessible to any parent who cares to check it out for his or her child?

Activists have swallowed whole the idea that any common sense solutions are an abrogation of the rights of a child of any age to access these materials. Why are they so insistent? Why do librarians lace these books throughout the children and teen sections of the library in a seeming random way, so that parents would, of necessity, have to hover over every single book their child pulls off the shelf?

 

Found HERE in the CCL

 

 Either activists--inside or outside the library--are ignorant of the deeper implications of providing children with age-inappropriate materials, or they know and are using the library to further political and social goals that are wildly out of alignment with Christian County community values.

The gender ideology books featured in this article are a few among many that are directed toward children--some as young as age three--in our library branches.

Bilek ends her article with this admonition:

"With a body-denying ideology tied to a civil rights structure for same-sex attracted individuals, to drive a technological dystopia, we are all in deep seas and treading water. But if we can let go of our illusions that this is somehow a benevolent movement for the marginalized and arm ourselves with information about how this tyrannical force is operating, we can devise creative ways to resist it. There is no choice; we must."

 

We really have no choice. We have to resist.

It's not just "White Nationalist Christians" who want to keep kids safe

 

A Straight Christian and a Gay Jew Walk into a Library by David Rice

The Article title sounds like the setup for a joke, but instead, it's a serious discussion about a topic everyone should discuss. Can we work together against Sexually Explicit Material in Missouri?

Read on Substack

Deconstructing the Sex Binary

 

This is what brainwashing looks like. Regardless if you live in a blue or red state, this type of poison is present. https://t.co/fN0vJ19wMD

— Courage Is A Habit (@CourageHabit) September 23, 2024

 

Righteous

 

A Billion Dollar Industry in Your Local Library

 

Image: Publishers Weekly

 

By Gretchen Garrity

 

"Attempting to disown one's sexed reality is not a human right or a lifestyle choice...It is indoctrination, being spread over technology, and through our institutions..." -- Jennifer Bilek

 

The Christian County Library's September 2024 newsletter features some titles new to the library. Among them is the graphic novel anthology "Indiginerds." Geared to children ages 12-18, the collection of stories is described in the Coolcat online catalog as "First Nations culture is living, vibrant, and evolving, and generations of Indigenous kids have grown up with pop culture creeping inexorably into our lives. From gaming to social media, pirate radio to garage bands, Star Trek to D&D, and missed connections at the pow wow, Indigenous culture is so much more than how it's usually portrayed. INDIGNERDS is here to celebrate those stories!."

The classification genres Indiginerds include "Indigenous peoples, social life and customs, comic books, juvenile literature, popular culture, identity (psychology)," and more.

From: Goodreads review

 

What you will not be informed of is the lesbianism (sapphic love), gender ideology, Two-spirit, trans-femme, queer themes, and Critical Race Theory threaded throughout the graphic novel.

From: Goodreads review

These kinds of books are being published by the hundreds every year and funneled into libraries, including the Christian County Library. In her book "Transsexual, Transgender, Transhuman," journalist Jennifer Bilek details this process. She writes:

"In less than a decade, the 'transgender human rights movement', replete with their own NGOs, has morphed from 'born in the wrong body' to 'gender identity disorder', to 'gender dysphoria', to 'gender incongruence', to 'gender identity', to 'gender expression', complete with lines of make-up, fashion and body scars."

She goes on:

"Should it be a surprise that there is now a contagion among young women wanting to have their healthy breasts amputated? Is is possible that they are absorbing the messages that promote dysphoria as progressive, cool, and edgy by media conglomerates selling this exact message?"

From: Goodreads review

  

The media conglomerates publish and sell these books in order to spread the message that sex is on a spectrum that seems to have no end. New genders are being "discovered" every day. Whatever random thought comes into a 13-year-old kid's mind is to be capitalized upon by a billion-dollar gender industry of puberty blockers, surgeries, psychology, and more.

Bilek writes, "While the media inundates us with these messages...gender ideology activists and their NGOs supporting the construct of 'synthetic sex medical expressions' are depathologizing this monstrosity and attempting to sell the public the idea that sex exists on a spectrum, that human sexual dimorphism is a contruct..."

Finally, Bilek writes, "We must understand that this apparatus of the gender industry is being strategically driven by capital, technological developments, and the MIC [Medical Industrial Complex] through all our institutions, corporations, and governments. While we are all arguing about what identity means as it is overlaid with sex-role stereotypes, the elites are running away with human sex. They are violating the boundary between male and female, opening markets in which our essential humanity becomes a-sky-is-the-limit market to be mined."

Since there has been citizen involvement in the library regarding the many books that should not be placed in the children's or teen sections of the library, the Coolcat online catalog has gotten very cunning about how books are being described and marketed. It has become difficult to determine if a book is really just nerdy indigenous kids growing up, or characters in a billion dollar industry that operates with diabolical efficiency to affect children in communities everywhere.

From: Coolcat online catalog

Indiginerds is being placed in the Ozark branch of the CCL. Your children, ages 12-18 are being targeted. If you object to this book--and there are many more in our county library system--please let the Christian County Library Board of Trustees know your thoughts. You can contact them here: rbrumett@christiancountylibrary.org or you can attend a monthly board meeting. The next one is Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024 at 6 p.m.

Patty Quessenberry on "Social Transitioning"

From: Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery on X

 

 By Gretchen Garrity

At last Tuesday's candidate forum in Ozark, a woman named Amy Cooper asked the candidates their opinion of Rep. Jamie Gragg's bill (HB 2885) that would make it a crime for a teacher to assist a child in their desire to transition from one sex to the other. An impossibility, of course. The term "social transitioning" is not what is happening. This is what is happening, and that's not the worst of it.

School Board member and president-elect of the Missouri School Boards Association, Patty Quessenberry, answered out of her "Christian" sensibilities. It's a doozy. Her pastor needs to help exorcise the progressive tendencies she expressed in her answer.

To suggest, as Quessenberry did, that a Christian is not supposed to make a judgment regarding the emotional and physical mutilation of troubled children, but to make sure they feel safe in their delusion, is depraved. She does say the right words at one point--that it's not for teachers to help a child to "transition," but her overall answer was anti-christian in its intent.

Quessenberry then defends teachers and says she wants teacher retention in Ozark. Okaaaay. What does Ozark teacher retention have to do with Rep. Gragg's bill? What is she saying?

God will ultimately hold her accountable for her "non-judgment" of the diabolical and profit-driven gender movement that is deeply harming the psyches and bodies of children. Is this the type of individual who should get another term on the Ozark School Board? For more on Quessenberry go here.

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UPDATE: Example A of why our local school board elections are vital: Joe Biden has declared March 31, 2024 as Transgender Visibility Day. Gender ideology is a top-down imposition on our local communities. Resist.

The Art Club Movie

 

 

This is a must watch documentary about a family whose lives were turned upside down when their daughter's school began transitioning her without their knowledge. It all began with the Art Club.

"Kevin Lundberg, along with the Lee family, have spent the last year producing this first-hand account of their family’s experience with public school indoctrination and the transgender social contagion.

This film takes an intimate look at this important issue, incorporates expert testimony, and offers advice for any parent, grandparent, aunt, uncle or friend to protect the children in their lives and stand up for truth."

Link to the film on YouTube. It is also available on Rumble.

There is also a companion website: Stop Gender Ideology.

No More Representative Government for You!

From: Entertainment Weekly

 This is a must-read article by David Rice. It details how the Friends of the Library in Christian County support the status quo, i.e., letting sexually explicit and pervasively vulgar books be accessible to children. The Marxist, godless and technocratic agenda of indoctrinating children and minors into gender ideology is at a peak right now.

The physical and emotional toll this ideology is taking upon our children will echo down the years as an era of insanity. No individual of good will can remain neutral.

Rice exposes how the Friends of the Library take books the community has donated, resells them, and then uses that money to support the status quo. The FOL president even has the audacity (perhaps ignorance) to write in opposition to HB2498, which provides for the election rather than appointment of library boards:

"This bill will also give the now-elected Board of Trustees the power to approve or reject all library employees, programs, activities, and volunteers."

He is advocating that un-elected employees, and not elected officials, be in charge of the library. 

No more representative government for you!

You have to read the whole thing to believe it.

The People Will Speak

 

By Gretchen Garrity

“To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.” – Frederick Douglass

There is a concerted effort across the United States to quash free speech. In Christian County, the effort is being seen in library and school board meetings with increasing restrictions on what people can say or do during public meetings.

From a 2015 Springfield News-Leader article regarding public comments during open meetings:

“Missouri's Sunshine Law, which requires that most government meetings and records be open to the public, surprisingly says nothing about requiring public comment. Likewise, state statutes generally mandate that cities discuss and vote on new ordinances during open meetings, but don't specifically require that citizens be allowed to speak.”

Perhaps legislators should take another look at the statutes and ensure the right of the public to speak when the people’s business is being discussed and decided by their elected officials.

To not make specific provision for the right of the public to comment during open meetings is to give officials too much discretion over free speech rights. It encourages elected and appointed officials to restrict free speech when their actions are not in concert with the public.

The Christian County Library Board of Trustees is one example. Citizens have been addressing the board for nearly a year about the library’s policy of allowing access to sexually explicit and pornographic books in the children and teen sections.

While citizens are increasingly diligent about challenging the inappropriate books and informing the board of the issue, little headway has been made beyond relocating a book or two, and removing one. The library staff seems adamant that books containing gender ideology, critical race theory, and age-inappropriate introductions to sexuality should be accessible to children.

At the September 26, 2023 board of trustee meeting, Board President Allyson Tuckness, presented a new policy that included restrictions such as “no clapping, no responding, no vocal anything from the audience.” Additionally, Tuckness said if there was any such disturbance the meeting would be immediately adjourned.

The irony is not lost that while children and teens are being used in a “free speech” ploy by organizations like the American Library Association (ALA) and its numerous spin-offs, parents and citizens are having their right to comment on that agenda restricted at library meetings.

This is a direct result of the pressure the library board and staff are feeling from an increasingly alienated public. Further restricting public comment, even to the point of banning any kind of vocalizing from the “audience” as Tuckness refers to citizens, will not deter the public from exercising their free speech.

Dr. Naomi Wolf has written an essay titled “Neo-Marxism and the End of Language” in which she argues that the “changes I see being introduced into English speech in America, are designed to kill off the practices and assumptions of individual freedom and responsive representation that have also been embedded for generations in us as a people.”

While her essay deals primarily with how Marxists are changing the meanings of words and how those words are used in order to suppress free expression, she also mentions this is having a chilling effect on the ability of citizens to comment in exchanges with our elected representatives.

Dr. Wolf writes, “There is a change in how dialogue is being conducted at a public level. Questions are being dissevered from answers and we are being propagandized that that is ok. A feature of the Biden era is that the Western notion that in a representative democracy, your elected officials have to answer you, or at least, have to appear to do so, is being demonstrated to be dead.”

Further on, Wolf says, “Questions in public from the public to “officialdom,” or to elites, will soon feel theoretical, cosmetic, or purely rhetorical. Questions themselves will be drained of the positive social valence that they have had in the West. As in any totalitarian system, we will conclude: why even bother asking?”

The public comment policy that is read at each library board of trustee meeting states, “As a general rule, the Board will not respond to public comments at the time they are made. The Board may ask clarifying questions, comment, or take action at their discretion. Questions for staff about library operations should be made during normal business hours.”

In essence, a county commission-appointed public body is telling taxpaying citizens they are above responding to stated concerns unless they choose to do so.

At the October 24, 2023 board of trustee meeting, Rep. Jamie Gragg ably contested the board president’s unilateral changing of library policy regarding public comments. (See here.)

When some public officials set themselves above the people, the people will respond, either via their elected representatives or through their own resourcefulness.

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