Parents Protest Extreme Pro-LGBT School Curricula Legislation at New Jersey State House

Rachel del Guidice : Apr 30, 2019
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"We have no hope of fighting this through the legislative [process] so the only option is to rise up or to have a lawsuit." -Victoria Jakelsky, a political consultant and parental rights activist in New Jersey

[Daily Signal] A rally this past weekend gave New Jersey parents an opportunity to oppose a new state law requiring public schools to teach children about the "political, economic, and social contributions" of lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender individuals. (Image: Pixabay)

The new law also requires schools to stress such contributions made by disabled persons, but it's the LGBT education component that prompted organizers to plan the rally.

"When you teach about George Washington, you don't teach that George Washington had sex with his wife and what he did; we teach what George Washington did as a president," Victoria Jakelsky, a political consultant and parental rights activist in New Jersey, told The Daily Signal in an interview Wednesday.

"But they are twisting it around to say that anyone who is LGBT, they're going to explain what they did, who their relationships were [with], and incorporate it as gay and lesbian and bisexual people are the history-makers," Jakelsky, a paralegal by training, said.

New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy, a Democrat, signed the legislation into law Jan. 31, and it is set to go into effect for the... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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