NC Lt. Governor Mark Robinson. Photo courtesy Christian Headlines.
North Carolina’s Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson drew national media attention recently when he made comments concerning the teaching of transgenderism and homosexuality to America’s school children. Groups advocating a LGBTQP+ movement criticized Robinson and called for his resignation.
Initial remarks were made during a speech last June at Asbury Baptist Church in Seagrove, a small North Carolina town of largely conservative citizens. This occurred not long after a group of South Carolina parents protested strongly in the Lexington District One against teachings about transgenderism in a classroom there. The stand which Robinson and the protesting parents took agrees with what most conservative, traditionalist and Christian parents believe. The Survey Center for American Life reported in September that “despite feeling comfortable with gay, lesbian, and transgender teachers, Americans are less convinced that LGBTQP+ identity and experience constitutes an important subject for students to learn about. Only about one-quarter (24 percent) of Americans—including less than half (42 percent) of Democrats and only 7 percent of Republicans—say that LGBTQP+ identity is a very important or one of the most important subjects for students to learn about in public high schools. Notably, 38 percent of Republicans say this subject should not be taught to high school students at all”.
After “Right Wing Watch,” a liberal activist group on Twitter, posted Robinson’s remarks from the June speech, major news outlets reported on it. Many Democratic, pro-LGBTQP+ PAC supporters condemned Robinson. The White House was among those outspoken groups, as was the “Human Rights Campaign,” the country’s largest LGBTQP+ rights organization with a growing political presence aggressively pushing LGBTQP+ “rights” in America, including in teaching materials in classrooms for the nation’s children.
In the released video, Lt. Governor Robinson stated that: “There’s no reason anybody anywhere in America should be telling children about transgenderism, homosexuality”–a stand which many citizens thought refreshing by a government leader. The current national Democratic leaders tout LGBTQP+ rights in all aspects, including calling children in classrooms “they” rather than “he” or “she,” adopting new standards in census and other federal forms that allow citizens to choose “Other” for gender, defending all forms of gender change including surgery for minors, and pushing a ridiculous belief that a person is not born with one sex but can choose their sex at any time. LGBTQP+ leaders like the activist group GLAAD push the requirement across America to call gender male or female “an assigned gender at birth,” not a person’s real gender.
As with South Carolina leaders, North Carolina state school leaders say that on a state level, there are no
standards requiring teaching (or forbidding it, either) of LGBTQP+ issues in schools, and curriculum varies from district to district. Recently adopted social studies standards for the state, however—opposed by Lt. Governor Robinson–, require teachers to talk about the perspectives of “historically marginalized groups,” and state documents suggest that teachers discuss the LGBTQP+ “rights movement,” its historical leaders and the 1969 ‘Stonewall Uprising’ in New York—yet again remolding history instruction for today’s young people to reflect political PACs pressure and replacing traditional historical teaching with civil rights information at the expense of common history.
In a video message Robinson released after gaining national media attention in October, he stated that the “media and those on the left (are trying to) change the focus from education to the LGBTQP+ community.” He stated that he would “fight for and protect the rights of all citizens, including those in the LGBTQP+ community, to express themselves however they want…(but) the idea that our children should be taught about concepts of transgenderism and be exposed to sexually explicit materials in the classroom is abhorrent”.
States fight against transgender indoctrination.
Robinson also shared with the media a book (one of three he mentioned) available for public school children on LGBTQ topics which he stated contain “sexually explicit illustrations.” In an Observer article on “Questions & Answers on Robinson,” an LGBTQP+ activist was quoted regarding another book more commonly used entitled “George,” (author Alex Gino) which discusses the main character, George’s, struggles with feeling that “he is really a girl.”
While these issues regarding teaching about LGBTQP+ and transgenderism in public schools have been increasingly on the “burner” in local and nationwide school systems, Lt. Governor Robinson has also come out boldly against the teaching of Critical Race Theory in schools and universities, which many conservatives state is communist propaganda and which has been widely promoted in the past year by the New York Times and other leftist supporters. Along with the “1619 Project,” both provide a very different portrayal of American history and reject traditional ideas commonly taught to school children in the US for well over a century.
Robinson also has spoken out against the Black Lives Matter movement, saying that BLM activists are “socialist liars and nit wits” who lack truth and God. He stated that “Black lives do NOT matter to Black Lives Matter… which would be at the gang hangout, at the drug dealer’s house burning that down rather than at the police station (protesting)” (“LGBTQ Democrats Slam NC Lt. Governor for Anti-Gay Comments,” Charlotte Observer, Will Doran and Danielle Battaglia, October 13).
Lisa Carol Rudisill, M.T.S., is a magna cum laud graduate of NC State University and Liberty University where she earned a Master of Theology. She writes novels about her family history during the Civil War in North and South Carolina. She is a freelance writer, editorialist and a contributor to The Standard newspaper.
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