What can of people try to get sexual with little kids at school by parading their sickness? Pedophiles. You don’t only have them in Hollywood and New York, they got them in Texas too. Shameful. Writer David Marcus tells us about it.

Marcus: Protests erupted over the weekend as a gay bar in Texas hosted a “Drag Your Kids to Pride” event, at which, among other things, kids tipped dancers in drag with dollars bills, mimicking the common strip club practice. Defenders of the youth themed show call it harmless fun, but it raises serious questions about whether children need to be protected from this overtly sexual entertainment. Put simply, do we have, as a society, a responsibility to protect the innocence of children?

The notion that childhood should be a time of innocence is a relative newcomer to our culture. Eighteenth Century French writer Jean-Jacques Rousseau is generally considered the father of this movement which held that children enter the world blameless and should be protected from negative influences until they develop into fully reasonable adults.

Among the upshots of this change were laws barring child labor and providing universal education. But today, the American left is abandoning this principle. Does it still believe that childhood should be a time of innocence?

Recently, an article in Fatherly argued that we should bring our young children to Gay Pride events even though they may well be exposed to public nudity and kink. It’s the kind of commonplace thing said today that not very long ago would have sounded completely insane. The message is a clear one, the risk of harming a child with inappropriate images is worth ensuring they wind up with the right politics.

Now, nobody thinks that progressives today would put 12-year-olds back in coal mines, but we know that they are very willing to place them on the barricades of their political and culture wars, both literally at Pride events and figuratively by making little, tiny activists out of them at school. That, in and of itself, is a radical departure from the idea that childhood should be a protected time of innocence.

And of course, it isn’t just Pride parades, it’s gender ideology in K-3 education, it’s critical race theory making young kids feel they are marked with original sin or victimhood, it’s even the quick and easy access to pornography that we as a society have just somehow accepted.

The latter point is worth sharpening, if in 1995 thousands of video stores were handing out free hardcore porn to kids there would have been immediate arrests made. But now, we basically have the equivalent in the palms of our children’s hands and have more or less decided there’s nothing we can do about it.

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COVID-19 provided yet another example of the chipping away of childhood innocence. How many times were we forced to hear that kids in pointless and frustrating Zoom classes or forced to mask up were, “tougher than you think.” Well, it turns out they aren’t tougher than we thought, as study after study is showing us the deep harm done to children during the lockdowns. In fact, they aren’t very tough at all which is why adults are supposed to protect them.