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[Music] now that you've seen what's in the curriculum we want to ask who writes this curriculum anyway where is it coming from and I think it's an important question first thing we want to do is we're going to jump into the fourth fifth and sixth grade flash curriculum and you'll see here there's a couple names that are featured on this document it's Elizabeth Beth Reese and then Brett Neeson our two names that collaborated together on the fourth fifth and sixth grade flash curriculum and Beth Reese kind of the BIOS who these folks are probably really decent nice kind people probably great neighbors I don't know them personally but their backgrounds give you an indication of kind of who they are where they're coming from that's Reese in addition she is currently a gender studies professor at the University of Oregon but when she lived in Washington State she had her partner with the lead plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Washington state's defense of marriage law now back in the 90s Washington State did pass a law clarifying the release the marriage was a relationship between a man and a woman and that the race was enough involved in kind of the LGBT a political activist scene that she and her partner were the lead plaintiffs in a case that went to the Washington State Supreme Court on that issue now ultimately in 2005 the Washington State Supreme Court clarified that it was legal to have a law maintaining marriage as a relationship between a man and a woman which of course is true but this is an indication into the perspective in the world view of the person writing the curriculum at least one of them now the other person mentioned on the curriculum pages is a gentleman named Brett Neeson now little internet research helps us to see that he is enough of an LGBT activist to be paying his rainbow flag on his facebook profile and a picture of a same-sex partner now also publicly available through Facebook we're going to see I'm going to give you some excerpts of the New Year's greeting that he did and this is just something they did posted on the internet so we were able to grab the I think is a window into how this gentleman about the world it says Happy New Year's everyone I wish you are more laughter and more economic equality less racism more democratic candidates in office more steps towards universal health care more acceptance of refugees less military intervention fewer guns and gun deaths lessening and tax on Planned Parenthood and women's rights more heroes and movies who are people of color and women and transgender and gave less white privilege more dialogue less acceptance that it's okay for anyone to die for the color of their skin in war or by terrorism domestic or abroad less shame about sex more sex if you want it let's hating on people for just being who they are or for having or performing and completely legal medical procedure called abortion less environmental pollution fewer fossil fuels used more garbage recycled or composted less plastic in our oceans and more appreciation that life is short and beautiful and amazing and all of its moments are to be relished with exuberance now this statement is not especially remarkable and put especially in a place like Seattle it's a it's a fairly middle-of-the-road Restatement of how progressives view the world and what's important to them so it's not remarkable in the sense that he's the only person who feels that way but it's just a window into how he views the world and he and the lead plaintiff against Washington's law defensive Marriage Act are the two people who were in this case charged with writing the curriculum that would shape how fourth fifth and sixth graders all over the state think about gender sexuality marriage relationships their bodies all of those things now it doesn't just start with the high school with it didn't stop with the grade school curriculum in the high school curriculum we'll also see there are of the five off two of the five authors that we were able to find are in openly same-sex relationships and we don't know as much about the others but it's it's likely that Andrea Gert Andrea Gerber Moe Lewis and Rebecca Millman are probably not apprentices of James Dobson's that seems to be likely but why does this matter are these bad people don't know any of them very well may not be but parents seem to understand this this is they certainly over representative if this if the gay community is you know 3% of the population the fact that four of the seven that we know of who are writing the sex ed curriculum are in same-sex relationships is certainly disproportionate to their influence in the population what I think I think we can if I were to get below the surface and kind of guess why I think the reason why they get involved in things like writing curriculum is because of the assumption that there's my guess is that there's a lot of pain there is that the people who are writing this curriculum have come from a place where they have probably been legitimately mistreated where but they have a perspective that the reason that I experienced pain as a child is because of all these mean people who judge and who are intolerant and as soon as we get rid of those ideas as soon as we get rid of the idea that some behavior is not acceptable as soon as we get rid of gender stereotypes as I understand them as soon as we get rid of judgmentalism then the next generation of children are not going to experience the pain that is current and if you if you if the assumptions that they make about the world are actually true it kind of makes sense the problem is they're not true and the things that we're incentivizing encouraging kids to do or it's creating all sorts of carnage and pain for them but their assumption is as soon as we get rid of intolerance and judgmentalism then students and children will be happy so we're going to write a curriculum that's going to make sure that students learn above all the worst thing you can do is judge anything and that's how we're going to create a peaceful utopian world for children now it's a very very perspective and I think we need to understand their motive is probably is likely very good and comes from a place if we want to help children avoid pain that we may have experienced as children ourselves but I think it's important for us to understand who it is that's writing this curriculum because we know then whose catechizing our children how do they view the world and do we really want them instructing our kids on how to be the world and how to think about these important critical issues at least for me the answer is no but what we want to remind you as parents and his grandparents and its community members is ultimately your children still belong to you children still belong to our parents to their parents and there is really really strong case law on this and I just want to throw one quote from a a fairly landmark case in the parental rights world so versus Glanville in the homeschooling context the courts have instantly upheld the idea that parents are the guardians of their children that government does not own children the parents have a right to direct their upbringing in fact have a duty to do so and we want parents to exercise that the challenge and we've heard this from many parents in many different school districts is once we get up the gumption to say you know what I want to find out what my teachers what my students are learning what teachers are giving to my children I want to see this curriculum it ends up being difficult because there are layers of bureaucracy within school districts that are kind of discouraging parents from doing that and there's a there's a humorous little anecdote from a Doug Adams book that I think illustrates the challenge that many parents are facing and it's a conversation between two people or one of the character says but the plans were on display on display I had to go down to the cellar to find him well that's the display Department for the flashlight ah well the lights had probably gone out and so had the stairs but look you found the notice didn't you yes that Arthur yes I did it was on display in the bottom of the locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused laboratory with a sign on the door saying beware of the leopard now that is the experience that a lot of people have when we deal with government bureaucracies not just school boards and school districts but many different layers of government bureaucracies but my encouragement to you is hopefully in understanding what the content is the motivation and who it is it's writing this stuff this is really important and one of the best ways that we can intervene and help in this is run for school board get on and get put ourselves in a position where we can know what is being presented to kids before it gets there and if we realize it's objectionable if it's not going to be healthy if it's going to be destroying their innocence rather than rather than equipping them to make good adult mature decisions then we can we can get rid of that because we put ourselves in a position to do so but we also which should be obvious by now is that if we don't volunteer if we don't put ourselves in those positions there are other people who are happy to do so and if we let them then the implications of that can be very significant in a bad way for our kids [Music] you [Music]