South of Eden: Protecting Children From Their Parents

My favorite Steinbeck novel is East of Eden. In this intricate story-plot, the reader/listener’s attention is held so well with character development that is biblically-laced with all the darkest elements of human sin and weakness, parental failures and favoritism, sibling rivalry and strife, deception and trickery, sexual promiscuity, murder, War, aging, growth, repentance, change, remorse, parental control/approach/neglect/rejection…you name it…the drama is so well-penned that one could listen to the tale many times and hear some new aspect to contemplate…truly the title is aptly given…it is an epic tale of the spiritual clash between two families, two patriarchs, two brothers, and more.

It is East of Eden.

It is off-course.

It is like the land of Nod, which was east of Eden, where the Lord banished Cain after he slew his brother, Abel. (Genesis 4).

Sometimes, we speak of following the North Star. The biblical image of the North Star has worked its way into cultures and language, and is sometimes used as a metaphor of true or wise guidance. One might say, “My friend’s care and words are like a north star to me.”

Likewise, on occasion I’ve heard the metaphor of the South Star. That would be something you witness that is so off-base that it indirectly points you the way to run/flee…to the opposite…the North Star Route!

Naming something a “south star” would mean we want to do a 180 as fast as our little legs can carry us!

Or, we sometimes say the conversation went south when…

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This morning as I browsed my Google feed headlines, there was a story that caught my eye. As I read the account of a young teacher’s words and actions, I felt anger. I felt repulsed at the infiltration of trans-activists into our school system. I felt fearful at the success of indoctrination and language manipulation that is allowing the rise of such South of Eden implementation of damaging political agenda and the legislation that is allowing this dark infringement to prevail against the sanctity of the parental relationship.

This is all so wrong–and I’ve read and listened enough to know that this infringement is not simply abhorred by parents that come from a Christian-faith perspective but it crosses over all lines of decency. One doesn’t need to be a parent who holds any religious beliefs to object to these tactics and actions on a number of solid-ground bases.

Thirty years ago, child protective services (rightly) existed to determine and mitigate the following types of things that children truly need to be protected from (with space for discussion of how to best protect, and removal from home or removal of parental rights not always the first course of action in the child’s best interest…that just one possibility) which most rational people would agree on as some form of abuse or neglect:

• physical violence of an abusive nature (with disagreements over when a parent’s use of corporal punishment crosses a line) with fairly clear markers of damage by physical violence
• physical neglect, which might include unsanitary living conditions, non-supervision, insufficient/irregular food provision
• exposure to damaging environment, which might include parents drinking or doing/selling drugs, strangers coming in and out of the home connected with illegal activities including parental prostitution…
• psychological/verbal abuse
• parents with mental illness or who lack ability to rationally parent within the spectrum of what is considered normal
• rigid religious beliefs that might prohibit a child from receiving truly life-saving medical treatments (and this is controversial what constitutes the line between parental family/religious rights and that which a child truly needs the state to step in for protection)
• sexual abuse of a minor by parents, siblings or others, including parents who might even prostitute their children for money, etc.
  
  
  

The above list I simply formed off the top-of-my-head and is in no way inclusive of things traditionally agreed upon as needing some form of external mitigation/action that could rightly be labeled protection from parents.

Now, let’s consider more the content of the article I read this morning. For the interested reader, I encourage you to read more on this story. Do as I did–Google and read the accounts by various sources including MSN, Fox News, The New York Post, and more. Below I provide an image and a link to a smaller-scale news source, one I selected after reading several and also seeing various images of this teacher.

The teacher’s name is Olivia Garrison, and she teaches 10th grade history in California. This link tells more about her goals.

The above visual snippet from the article I selected to link (see link below image) states the part I found most disturbing: “My job, which is a public service, is to protect kids”…and “Sometimes, they need protection from their own parents.”

The novel idea that a huge swath of minors [that are actually] suffering from a dark, dangerous social contagion somehow “authenticated” by naming it with a number of letters, symbols and meaningless, baseless terms (aka gender ideology, etc) and therefore need to be protected from their (abusive) parents should be making the faces of anyone who has ever been a parent do gymnastics! Meaning, their jaws should be dropping and their facial muscles forming all sorts of angered response.

Let’s call this what it is: it is the mobilization of an army that is coming for our children. It is the increasingly legal mobilization of an army of activists with an agenda for children, from the cradle onward. Social transition is a powerful beginning toward medical transition, and make no mistake, the political activists want the indoctrination to start as early as possible.

It is my personal opinion that a lot of this could rightly be connected to the agenda of population control through the backdoor. Meaning, we are now seeing the legalized push for medical sterilization of many young people, and it is being name “gender affirming healthcare” rather than what it essentially is: sterilization and mutilation.

If one researches, you will discover that parental rights are increasingly and intentionally being bypassed, and some have even lost custody or other rights to protect and guide their own children as they see fit.

This is alarming. Consider all the things that minors could not traditionally do/have access to without parental consent (or even with parental consent). For example, a parent who gives their underage children intentional, free access to alcohol (or hosts parties supplying such) can in many cases be held liable for breaking laws regarding the welfare of minors.

Most rational people would agree that such action falls in the category of abuse. And the state would have basis to protect children from this.

But, let’s get back to Eden.

Let’s get back to the basic assumption that even in a world that is marred by parental sins, failures and weaknesses, that most parents do, instinctually, want to protect, love and properly care for their children. (Think of Mama Bears…you don’t want to mess with a Mama Bear…as one friend said to me once, “when someone messes with your kids…grrrrrrr….”)

Public Service Announcement to the Mama Bears–Defend Your Children

It is human nature for parents to protect their own children. And that’s why pretty much every culture I can think of acknowledges and protects that right. Parental rights, of “legal age”….while this may look somewhat different in different societies…only in the United States and some other western civilizations are we now seeing the evolution of the alteration of that basic right and basic definition of what it means to protect a child.

So, let’s get this straight:

According to this non-binary trans-activist who happens to also be a teacher–for whatever reason–she has taken it upon herself as mission to protect children from parents who are not okay with their child receiving puberty blockers that do irreversible damage; or who are not okay with their son or daughter being indoctrinated into a seemingly state-sponsored cult/religion that might convince them to cut off healthy breasts or penises prior to age 18 (or poise them psychologically to do that after age 18); or who are not okay with the physical damage binders can do to young girls; or who are not okay with their children being sexually groomed/abused by online communities/adults that sway them in this direction and need to sever them from their parent’s authority in order to accomplish the goal; or who are not okay with a number of other issues associated with this social contagion.

While I could go on here, I won’t. I’ve just learned too much about all this and how it is really spreading.

For those interested, please start listening to the voices of the de-transitioned, the de-sisted, and the parents. The other night, I listened to this interview with a mother and daughter, and found it worthy and of interest. At one point in the interview, the young girl made the comment, of her relationship with her mother after her mother took action to protect her and she de-sisted, “Yeah I feel safer than ever.”

This girl’s story, and that of the mother, is powerful. Child protective services were called at one point…listen to it all with your own eyes and ears.

Shalom…and may God get us all pointed back to Eden, and that right soon.

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