LGBT Activists Disrupt UN Event on Protection of Children

By | March 11, 2023

NEW YORK, March 11 (C-Fam) Homosexual/trans activists disrupted an event on the protection of children in digital environments at the annual UN women’s conference in New York.

“The amount of homophobia and transphobia I heard in this room,” began one activist, but she couldn’t finish her sentence because she was immediately interrupted by a scream from across the room.

“No! Have you heard about corrective rape? Who does corrective rape? Parents. And you are asking us to go to parents? Hello!” said a woman who was visibly angered and only yelled louder after she was asked to yield.

The activists demanded the floor at the conclusion of an event hosted by a group of traditional countries that make up a coalition that advocates for family policy at the United Nations in line with international human rights law. The disruptors were reacting to presentations about the importance of protecting children from online threats as well as the opportunities afforded by digital learning tools.

During his presentation, international law expert Stefano Gennarini called on young adults to question the messages they had received about sexuality from their education and even the authority figures in their lives.

“We are now in a period in history which is very significant because entire generations of children and youth have been brought up with the messaging that you have heard.”

“Maybe you don’t understand why you’re anxious, why you are having trouble, what you are struggling with”, said Gennarini, VP of Legal Studies for the Center of Family and Human Rights.

Gennarini also argued that countries should work to ban pornography and other harmful online content altogether.

“There are no human rights protections for pornography, whether to view it, to produce it, to access it,” said Gennarini. “We should all be working to maximize the protections for children,” he emphasized.

Brittany Homer, Executive Director of the organization Project STAND described the need for online safeguards as more and more children are being exposed and harmed by online pornography and sexual exploitation. Homer said most children by the age of thirteen have been exposed to online pornographic content.

“Pornography hijacks the pleasure-seeking part of our brain in a way that motivates a young child that is exposed, even inadvertently to seek it out again and again.”

Homer said children are being harmed by the violence and aggression that are common in pornography which is normalized and sends a message that boys are supposed to be violent against girls, and girls are supposed to like it. She said exposure to pornography can cause long-term trauma to children including depression, academic issues, eating disorders and mental illness. Homer proposed concrete solutions that include parental oversight, big tech accountability, age verification and mandatory filters on digital devices.

Educational researcher Lisa Logan described the recent transformation of education systems through social and emotional learning programs. Logan said this was a form of “behavioral engineering” to create social conformity.

Logan described how social and emotional learning programs use feedback from teachers about individual students to target those students for interventions that will change their mind and behavior. These programs, which increasingly use the help of artificial intelligence, are now affecting 9 million children in the United States and being promoted around the world by UN agencies.

“This looks less like character building, and more like people fixing,” she said.

Logan explained that social and emotional skills were “not something that can be trained or manufactured” and that they must be learned “organically” through experiences and interaction with family, culture, friendships, and meeting strangers in the real world. Schools should just stick to math, reading, and science, she emphasized.

Family rights advocate Sharon Slater gave a troubling account of what UN agencies and their implementing partners, including global abortion group International Planned Parenthood Federation, are including in children’s comprehensive sexuality curriculum. She detailed numerous examples of the UN Children’s Fund Agency (UNICEF) and UN Population Fund (UNFPA) sponsored curriculum that focused on sexual knowledge and pleasure designed for children as young as 10 years old.

“There is a war for the hearts and minds of our children” said Slater, president of Family Watch International, between those that want to afford parents the right to decide what is best for their children, and those who want to bypass parents and give children sexual rights.

Timothy Rarick, professor at BYU-Idaho presented on the benefits of online learning particularly for women in developing countries. He detailed current educational programs that are transforming women’s lives and strengthening families.

In recent years the space for family advocates at the UN has been shrinking and becoming more hostile. This is largely due to UN agencies and western countries objections to any promotion of family policy in UN agreements.

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