Powerful video shows victory of Panamanian people over gender ideology ‘education’
A powerful video produced by Panamanian
pro-family activist Jibaro Artz brings to life the struggle of Panamanian
families to resist the imposition of gender ideology education in their
country.
The video records
the multitudinous protests that drew tens of thousands of families to the
streets of Panama on July 13 to express their rejection of a draft bill known
as “Law 61,” which would have mandated that Panamanians schools indoctrinate
students in gender ideology and impose explicit “sexuality education.”
After the march, several representatives from
the protesters entered the National Assembly to communicate to legislators
their objections to Law 61. The president of the Assembly and other deputies
capitulated to the protesters and agreed to return the law to the Work, Health,
and Development Committee rather than pass it on for debate by the full
Assembly.
“We made history!” the video’s voiceover
declares. “Day and night, in the rain, before politicians, before people who
look down on us, but today, thousands of people are united. The Panamanian
people have demonstrated the power there is in unity.”
“We’re going to continue protecting our
children, adolescents, and future generations from laws that seek to distort
the original model of the family,” it continues.
“Certain people want to take away the
responsibility of parents for the education of their children. They want to
foment licentiousness among children and adolescents by giving them information
but without adequate formation.”
“Today we decided not to remain silent, and we
went out into the streets in a peaceful march to express our opposition.
... The Panamanian family went to the National Assembly of Deputies and
we were heard.”
The draft bill mandates “integral sexual
education” and “sexual and reproductive health” for children at every
educational level, including what appears to be a gender-ideological
distinction of biological “sex,” and “sexuality,” which it defines as
“anatomic, physiological, psychological, and affective.”
In seeking to implement such “education” in
the nation’s schools, the Ministry of Education has been working with the
United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) to create sexual education “guides” that
teach children as young as seven that “gender” and “sex” are two different
things, and to induce them to talk about their genitalia in class.
The pro-family Children’s Platform (Plataforma
para la Niñez), which is a coalition of Catholic and evangelical groups that
organized the July march, is warning legislators that if the guides are not
withdrawn, they will stage another protest demanding that the country’s
education minister be fired, according to the Panamanian publication Telemetro.
The National Assembly recently announced that
hearings at the committee level will soon begin again on the bill, which will
allow input from pro-family groups. However, Telemetro reports
that while pro-family groups are happy that the draft bill has been returned to
the committee, they have no desire to discuss modifications to the bill and
want to see it completely discarded and replaced.