Analysis. The time has come to recognize the hard facts. Radical leftists are pushing legislation through state government that drives antifamily policies and practices being implemented within the American public schools for far too long.

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For example, in Maryland and other liberal school districts nationwide, school boards have for decades adopted policies to “protect” children from their parents’ rights. Nowhere has this push been more aggressive than in those policies aligned with the gender-dysphoric agenda. In Howard County, policies advancing this transgender agenda have been incorporated in Howard County Public School Policy and Procedures from as long ago as 2017.  And inside school buildings, reports indicate, these secretive child-abuse practices were already occurring before 2017.

In November 2022, Delegate Vanessa Atterbeary (District 13 — Howard County), chairwoman of the Ways & Means Committee of Maryland’s 445th General Assembly, sponsored a bill to codify the erosion of parental rights. The bill empowers school “health services” dedicated to evangelizing and executing transsexual ideology. This bill, the ‘Primary and Secondary Education — Comprehensive Health Education Framework — Established’ (HB0119), formalizes legal protection for educators, coaches, student health services, and others to proselytize gender dysphoria, child mutilation, and deviant sexual proclivities to Maryland public, charter, and, eventually, private-school students.

HB0119 will also eradicate parental rights to opt children out of classes teaching them how to pleasure themselves physically, to be amenable to adult sexual advances, and to disregard the scientific realities of who they are created to be. Children’s exposure to indoctrination will be compulsory and mandatory. No more pretension that parents may opt children out of these radical sexual-grooming preparatory factories. You must submit or risk class failure, child-endangerment charges, or worse.  As with Star Trek’s Borg, resistance will be futile. If passed, this state-level law takes effect in July of 2023.

The hard truth? In practice, for several years, the Maryland State Department of Education (MSDE) has funded and advanced what is termed wrap-around “health services,” through the School-Based Health Center Program. The list of health and student-support services provided through these school-based centers includes policies and practices supporting the secretive ‘transition’ of children’s identity. In preparation for Delegate Atterbeary’s and the Democrat Caucus’ planned HB0119 legislation, on July 1 2022, the MSDE transitioned Maryland’s School-Based Health Center Program to the Maryland Health Department. Again, this is despite these school-based centers having already delivered secret services to unsuspecting children, without parental consent.

So, why would MSDE decide to transition school programs to the State Health Department?  There are many reasons. None of these are overly complex. Generally, under the umbrella of the State Health Department, school system personnel, contractors, volunteers, and others will now have enhanced legal protection and indemnity to administer secret support services, such as psychological counseling, medical treatment referrals, transvestite closets, and other so-called protections for self-identified nonbinary children of any age, without requiring informed consent from parents.

This new school system and State Health Department alliance will also expand funding channels and allow some to justify abusing HIPPA protections to exclude parental prenotification and consent. These centers, staffed with primary-care clinicians, RNs, and LPNs will operate on school grounds. Meanwhile, the Maryland Democrat Party continues to pursue legislatively the reduction of the age of legal consent.

Again the question is, why? Unfortunately, as in California and New York, I see more on the horizon in Maryland if God does not stop them. When viewed in the context of additional Maryland legislation advancing unlimited access to child sacrifice services, mandating state-funded transvestite procedures, and legalizing child sex, HB0119 can reasonably be expected to be used to allow God-knows-what to be done to our children during normal school hours.  Abortions, hormone treatments, psychiatric experimentation, and support for underage sexual activity.

Delegate Atterbeary has sponsored and supported some of the most wicked legislation in Maryland.  Her record includes co-sponsoring HB0669 Pregnant Person’s Freedom Act (2022), legalizing infanticide of infants up to 28 days old, and criminalizing anyone reporting the murderer. HB0669 was tabled during the last session but is being reintroduced under a different veil. Atterbeary also sponsored HB083 Marriage of Minors Act, under the guise of supporting families, despite victims and victim advocates, who know well the loopholes used by traffickers, rapists, and pedophiles, begging the Maryland legislature not to pass.

What can we do? We can stop asking evil to play nice or expecting the wicked to relent. Let’s also recognize that practices allowing these abhorrent adult lifestyles have already been implemented in schools. We are now seeing their prideful, dogged determination to codify the abuse and to secure our tax dollars to fund this wickedness. Let us also stand on His word and together proclaim regarding all who are aiding and abetting the abuse of children and the innocent:

“But if you give them a hard time, bullying or taking advantage of their simple trust, you’ll soon wish you hadn’t. You’d be better off dropped in the middle of the lake with a millstone around your neck. Doom to the world for giving these God-believing children a hard time! Hard times are inevitable, but you don’t have to make it worse — and it’s doomsday to you if you do” (Matthew 18:6–7 MSG).

How are you praying for children, both in Maryland and across the nation? Share your prayers and scriptures below.

Mavourene Robinson began in full-time ministry in 2014, campaigning for the Howard County Public Schools’ Board of Education in 2017–2018, and for the Maryland Senate in 2022. A lifelong learner about the intersections of faith with international relations and domestic policy, Mavourene is actively engaged in intercession for family, government, education, and religion. She releases prophetic insight at Judgment Begins in the House. Photo Credit: Canva.