{"id":3452,"date":"2022-04-01T06:07:27","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T06:07:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/linksus.net\/florida-bill-shows-how-good-policy-makes-for-good-politics-world-news-group\/"},"modified":"2022-04-01T06:07:27","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T06:07:27","slug":"florida-bill-shows-how-good-policy-makes-for-good-politics-world-news-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/linksus2.linksus.net\/index.php\/2022\/04\/01\/florida-bill-shows-how-good-policy-makes-for-good-politics-world-news-group\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida bill shows how good policy makes for good politics – WORLD News Group"},"content":{"rendered":"

\t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t\t Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education bill into law on Monday. \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \t\t\t\t \tAssociated Press\/Photo by Douglas R. Clifford\/Tampa Bay Times<\/span> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t
Should children in kindergarten through third grade receive lessons about sexual orientation and gender identity? After a bizarre national debate, the state of Florida says no. Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, who signed the bill <\/a>into law, said in a statement<\/a>, \u201cParents have every right to be informed about services offered to their child at school, and should be protected from schools using classroom instruction to sexualize their kids as young as 5 years old.\u201d
Despite the obvious reasonableness of the proposal, the bill faced intense opposition. White House spokeswoman Jenn Psaki<\/a> referred to the legislation as \u201cdiscriminatory,\u201d \u201ca form of bullying,\u201d and \u201chorrific.\u201d Disney came out in full-throated opposition. Even the Hollywood brain trust got in on the action when the opening monologue at the Oscars<\/a> mocked the bill.
Often overlooked in the controversy was the fact that most Americans find the bill to be quite reasonable. While only one Democrat voted in favor of the legislation, Democratic voters in Florida were much more supportive. Fifty-two percent of Democratic parents in Florida said no<\/a> when they were asked, \u201cShould students in kindergarten through 3rd Grade be taught about sexual orientation in the classroom by their teachers?\u201d
The fact that parents don\u2019t want Big Brother taking control of their children\u2019s education should not be news to left-wing political interests. Less than five months ago, Republican underdog Glenn Youngkin defeated Democrat Terry McAuliffe while running on a parental rights platform in the Virginia governor\u2019s race.
The divide over teaching kindergartners about gender identity is not a difference between Democrats and Republicans but between parents who demand to be in control of their children\u2019s exposure to such issues and \u201cexperts\u201d who believe they should be in control of other people\u2019s children.
This debate also illustrates just how quickly the sexual revolutionaries have been advancing in the culture. A mere seven years ago, same-sex marriage was still illegal in most states. During the debates over that issue, any suggestion that efforts to legalize same-sex marriage were part of a larger conspiracy to teach kindergartners about homosexuality would have been roundly ridiculed as homophobic fearmongering. We were told all they wanted was equality, the right to love and be loved. But today, we hear that teaching kindergartners about homosexuality is a requirement of equality.
Moreover, the same crowd that told us for decades the Ten Commandments are unacceptable religious indoctrination now says the books She\u2019s My Dad! <\/em>and Gender Queer<\/em> are simply part of a well-rounded education. But the evidence continues to mount that America disagrees.
Those on the political left are not only becoming detached from Middle America, they are also losing their influence over politicians they once controlled. In recent years, progressive interests have used threats and intimidation to accomplish virtually all of their political goals, even in red states.
In some cases, they \u201cpersuaded\u201d lawmakers not to pass good laws. For example, in 2016, Republican governors in Arizona<\/a> and Georgia<\/a> vetoed religious freedom laws under threats of economic boycotts. In other cases, they convince politicians to repeal good laws that had already passed. In 2015, as governor of Indiana, Mike Pence repealed a religious freedom law.<\/a> Two years later, the state of North Carolina repealed legislation protecting women\u2019s privacy<\/a>.
GOP lawmakers could not pull off these same acts of cowardice today without swift criticism from their base. We saw this recently in the Utah legislature overriding a veto from its moderate Republican governor who had taken the wrong side in a debate over protecting women\u2019s sports.
In each case, the LGBTQ playbook was the same. The legacy media would misrepresent what the bill did and allies in big business would threaten economic harm unless their demands were met. Time after time, it worked.
As recently as 2021, South Dakota Republican Gov. Kristi Noem vetoed a bill protecting women\u2019s sports<\/a> in response to pressure from the South Dakota Chamber of Commerce<\/a>. However, after severe backlash, she signed a bill protecting women\u2019s and girls\u2019 sports this year.
Given this history, those on the left had every right to believe they would win again. After all, they ran the same play they had been running for most of a decade, but it didn\u2019t work this time. Not only did DeSantis not succumb to their pressure, but he wore their scorn with pride. Upon signing the Parental Rights in Education bill, he referred to opposition from Disney and the Oscars as a \u201cbadge of honor<\/a>.\u201d As he should. He understands instinctively what the left is incapable of understanding.
Many on the left are standing, indignantly, asking, \u201cWhy shouldn\u2019t we be allowed to talk to kindergartners about sexual orientation?\u201d Meanwhile, most of America is wondering why they think parents would want them to. We have reached a moment where good policy also makes good politics. That could be very bad news for Democrats in upcoming elections, but it is very good news for America\u2019s parents.
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Joseph Backholm is senior fellow for biblical worldview and strategic engagement at the Family Research Council. Previously, he served as a legislative attorney and spent 10 years as the president and general counsel of the Family Policy Institute of Washington. He also served as legal counsel and director of What Would You Say? <\/em>at the Colson Center for Christian Worldview where he developed and launched a YouTube channel of the same name. His YouTube life began when he identified as a 6\u20195 Chinese Woman in a series of YouTube videos exploring the logic of gender identity. He and his wife Brook have four children.
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