• • Parents' 'Sex Ed Sit Out' Protesting Forced Gender Ideology in Schools Spreads Across Country

Parents across the nation will pull their children out of school on April 23 to protest sex education programs that have become steeped in gender ideology due to an agenda forced by pro-abortion and LGBT rights organizations.

Dubbed "Sex Ed Sit Out," the protest has been organized by parents who want to know why their children are learning graphic details about oral and anal sex and how to masturbate:

The protest is taking off from Charlotte, North Carolina, to nearly a dozen other cities, reports the Washington Times, including Austin and San Antonio, Texas; Spokane, Washington; Sacramento, California; Bloomington, Indiana; and Martinsburg, West Virginia.

Internationally, protests are planned for Vancouver, British Columbia, as well as Mulgrave, Australia:

"Most parents do not know this is taking place in schools," said one of the protest's organizers, Elizabeth Johnston - also known as the "Activist Mommy."

"The wool is completely being pulled over their eyes, and sometimes when parents catch on and start inquiring, bureaucrats are using deceptive means of not informing them what is being taught."

Johnston first announced plans for the Sex Ed Sit Out this month in an interview with the Christian Post.

"Why are our tax dollars going to pay for curriculums and resources that teach dangerous and promiscuous behaviors which most parents find morally abhorrent and the CDC has stated are a health risk?" she asked:

Johnston and other concerned mothers started a network and began planning the protest.

"I kept stumbling across viral videos online of concerned parents sharing the graphic nature of sex education and anti-bullying curriculums," she told the Post. "I personally homeschool my children but felt sorry for the parents who feel helpless to stop the stranglehold of special interest groups who are funding and pushing these graphic and dangerous programs in public schools."

On the day of the Sex Ed Sit Out, parents plan to send the same letter to school principals explaining the absence of their children. The letter reads, "Pornographic sex ed is being implemented across our globe in an attempt to indoctrinate our children with 'sexual rights.' This is unacceptable and [I am] joining others both nationally and globally in taking a stand to say 'enough!'"

"We send our kids to school to learn reading and writing and science and history, not how to question whether they really are a boy or a girl," Johnston told CBN News.

Parents have been pushing back against school boards and administrators who cater to the notion that gender ideology and LGBT-inclusive sex education must be included in school curricula due to civil rights and anti-bullying laws - as threatened by groups such as the Human Rights Campaign and Planned Parenthood:

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Many parents are concerned about the growing number of attempts to expose young public school children to explicit sexual content under the guise of "sexual education." With the rise of demonstrations surrounding the gun control and abortion debates, one group of parents have decided to make their frustrations surrounding the issue of sex-ed known through a "Sex Ed Sit Out."

Christian mother and blogger Elizabeth Johnston, also known as "The Activist Mommy," is teaming up with parents from across the country to combat what they believe to be an orchestrated effort to sexualize school children from a very young age, CBN News reported. The "Sex Ed Sit Out" protest will take place Monday, April 23, with events scheduled in the U.S., Canada and Australia. 

"It's been brought to the attention of some of us mothers that parents are grieved and increasingly troubled about the graphic nature of sex education," Johnston told CBN. "Even as young as elementary school students are being subjected to this."

If you are not a parent of a school-aged child, or if you are simply unfamiliar with the issue, here are just a few recent examples that highlight this increasingly pervasive problem:

1. In 2012, parents in the small town of Onalaska, Washington, discovered that their children were being taught how to perform oral and anal sex as part of a state-approved sex-ed course developed by Planned Parenthood, NARAL and other progressive agencies.
2. Last August, a kindergarten teacher in Rocklin, California, held a gender "transition ceremony" in class for a 5-year-old boy without notifying parents.
3. In 2015, the Fairfax County, Virginia, public school board voted 10-2 to approve a gender identity curriculum, which included lessons about homosexuality and gender identity for students as early as 4th grade.