Parents in Australia Stand Up to LGBT Program: "We Are In A Battle For the Innocence of Our Children"

Teresa Neumann : Feb 18, 2016
LifeSiteNews

"When a girl believes she is fat and isn't, health professionals tell her so, but when a boy believes he is a girl, they are supposed to agree with him." -Wendy Francis

(Australia)—An Australian Christian organization is warning school principals to keep out of a federally funded Safe Schools program that is pitched as anti-bullying but is actually promoting premature sexual activity and transgenderism. (Photo: Public Domain)

The Australian Christian Lobby says many of the 500 principals who have permitted the Safe Schools program into their schools "are probably not aware of what Safe Schools is really promoting and may be unwittingly acting as agents for rainbow activists."

"We are in a battle for the innocence of our children," ACL spokesperson Wendy Francis told LifeSiteNews. The program, which was produced by an alliance of homosexual activist groups, is funded to the tune of $8 million by the federal government. All state governments have made it optional for each school, except for Victoria, which will require all schools to teach it by 2017. The state of Victoria provided initial funding for the Safe Schools Coalition.

Coalition national director Sally Richardson defended her program for providing "schools with practical ways to foster a positive school culture where students, staff and families of all sexualities and gender identities feel safe, included and valued."

She added that students at "safe" schools do better academically and enjoy better mental health.

The program calls for four-year-olds to be read to from a book called Gender Theory (written for pre-schoolers), which begins and concludes, said Francis, with the words "Only you know whether you are a boy or a girl. No one can tell you."

"This is rubbish," Francis said.

There is more: Safe Schools invites students to the Minus 18 website, where trans students are taught how to "pass" with practices that "are anything but safe." For example, female students trying to portray themselves as males are encouraged to bind their breasts, "a practice which [the program] casually admits can kill." The would-be females, meanwhile, are taught to...

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