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MN Legislative Issues and Bills 2022

Please use the following legislative update to contact your legislators. The information includes the bill numbers and whether CPL supports or opposes the bill and why. Distribute the information to your family, friends and within your spheres of influence. HF=House file; SF=Senate file. Find your legislators at Who represents me?
CPLAction Legislative Update 2021 Handout (PDF)

Obscenity Exemption to Prohibit Obscenity in Schools Act
Support HF232 and SF1609
This bill removes the K-12 school exemption to the MN obscenity statute. The exemption currently permits schools to use obscene materials if they are considered “educational.” This bill would remove the school exemption and entitle parents to file civil lawsuits and recover damages for displaying and disseminating obscene material which is deemed harmful to minors according to statute.

MS 617.291 Section 1, subdivision 2: “It is in the best interest of the health, welfare, and safety of minors that dissemination of sexually explicit written, photographic, printed, sound or published material are deemed harmful to minors.”

Digital and Online Library Database Resources for K-12 Students
Support HF467 and SF1016
Parents, legislators and most school board members are unaware of how easily students can access porn and obscenity through their laptops and chrome books. This bill requires K-12 school online research database services to BLOCK access to porn and other obscene materials as defined in MN statute. Most K-12 schools use the MN eLibrary (ELM) that use databases such as EBSCO and GALE. These databases link to porn and obscenity on their platforms bypassing school filters. Only the database provider can filter content. This bill also states that database providers who fail to BLOCK this access constitute a breach of contract and payment for their services can be withheld.

Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE)

Oppose HF358 AND SF632
This is the same legislation passed by the MN House (HF1414) in 2019 which mandated comprehensive sex education (CSE) in every MN K-12 public/charter school. CSE removes all natural and protective boundaries for children and teens, encouraging early sexual exploration in graphic detail. CSE uses pornographic illustrations and graphic descriptions to teach children as young as 10 that all ‘consensual’ sexual activity is their right. It also normalizes all gender identities and permits unlicensed organizations such as Planned Parenthood (PP) into the classroom. PP already teaches 4th graders that oral, anal, and vaginal sex are “normal” as is masturbation alone or with others.
References:

Constitutional Amendment for Education
Oppose HF874 and SF2563
Note: The senate bill is authored by Senators Michelle Benson, Jeff Howe and John Hoffman)

This bill has hidden agendas that basically hands over much of the authority over education from the legislature to the state which includes departments of the executive branch and the courts. In our Republic, the legislature determines policy, not the executive or judicial branches. This bill essentially extends MN state government constitutional authority over education of “all children;” requires state to adopt “uniform achievement standards” to define “quality” for all children.

The bill numbers may have changed but the content and our opposition to these bills remain the same as in 2019-2020 legislative sessions. Read our testimonies in opposition to this Constitutional Amendment for Education.

Equal Rights Amendment

Oppose HF726, HF727 AND SF342
This bill is presented as an “equal rights” constitutional amendment but would recognize an unlimited number of gender identities, including no gender and gender fluidity. Gender would no longer have a fixed definition; erasing the meaning of male and female. It would affect family law, adoption law, health law, athletic policies, public and private spaces across all civic, corporate, private, educational and religious organizations by enshrining all gender identities as equal under the law. There would be NO EXCEPTIONS to a new constitutional right. It would especially erase the bodily privacy and physical safety of women and children by giving biological males the ‘right’ to invade their locker rooms, showers, bathrooms, sports, and dressing rooms.

The question that will be submitted to the people for a vote shall be “Equal Rights Amendment,” however; it isn’t equal rights for women. In reality, it is a “Gender Spectrum Equality Amendment.”

Protect Minnesota’s Kids Act
(Stricter Penalties for Trafficking in Child Sexual Abuse Imagery)
Support HF229, HF226 and SF1826, SF1220
Bill numbers changed to: HF3881, SF3894

Called the Protect Minnesota’s Kids Act (PMKA), the bills mirror federal penalties for production, distribution, receipt and possession of child sexual abuse imagery. The bills also require criminals to register as predatory offenders and allow public access to their criminal histories. The bills give law enforcement officers more resources to combat child predators; especially those who are trading these images online.

Child Protection League has produced SHATTERED, a documentary about this issue and these bills. Please watch the 25-minute video at The Protect Minnesota’s Kids Act, read the information and help us get these bills passed!

Defining Male and Female

Support HF1657
The proposed bill would define “male” as a person with XY sex chromosomes and “female” as a person with XX sex chromosomes and prohibits male students from participating in elementary, high school, and post-secondary female-only sports teams. It requires restrooms, locker rooms, dressing rooms, shower rooms, and any other facility or setting where a student may be in a state of undress to be designated female only or male only. Violators would be guilty of a petty misdemeanor.

Talk Therapy Ban – Prohibit Counseling for Minors
Oppose HF2156 and SF1871

Under the negatively charged misnomer “Conversion Therapy,” this bill would criminalize any professional counseling to minors who are struggling with sexual identity issues unless that counselling affirms the child’s gender identity dysfunction. This bill is an aggressive authoritarian attack on freedom of speech protected in the first amendment of the U.S. Constitution; it is a massive intrusion into families and parental rights; and it criminalizes the free exercise of a person’s religion, a fundamental right protected by the first amendment.

Parental Rights
Supports SF2909

It is a fundamental right of a parent to direct the upbringing, education and care of their minor children. Schools have been withholding information from parents about their own children. This bill would give rights back to the parents to direct the upbringing, health, well-being, mental health and education of their children.

Legislative History

CPL Focused MN Legislation 2020

  • Constitutional Amendment SF 3977 (House file 3658)
  • Mandated Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE)
  • Drag Queen Story Hour HF4323
  • Gender Identity Proposal, MN Department of Education

MN Legislative Issues and Bills 2019

  • Mandated Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE)
  • School Safety Technical Assistance Center (SSTAC)
  • Great Start for All Minnesota Children Act
  • Conversion Therapy Ban
  • ERA Constitutional Amendment

School Policies

School Boards – The Key

Whether it is Critical Race Theory and Equity, Project 1619, Comprehensive Sex Education, transgenderism or other controversial curriculum, the new strategy is to push these agendas at the local level, to children as young as kindergarten. Instead of class time focused on reading, writing and arithmetic, these radical ideas are being taught and often integrated into every subject. Teachers are trained by “experts” in these radical agendas and then expected to teach them to the children.

Find out what your districts are teaching. If this agenda has infiltrated……. working together! Learn how parents have taken action and successfully changed their school district’s policies at How to Take a Stand and Speak Out. Also find additional helps below.

Child Protection League is here to assist you when we can. Would you help keep us informed of local activity when you or your group engage with your school boards and communities? We can work together! Let us hear from you at Contact Us.

Resources

How to Request Public Information
It is your right to view public records. Your schools should allow you access to curriculum, surveys used, teacher training offered, etc. If you are having difficulty being allowed to see the school records, submit a request to your school board. (called the Freedom of Information Act or FOIA)

Sample Letters
Use the samples for ideas on writing your own letter to your school board. Collaborate with others. Send Letters to the Editor with your concerns to reach more people.

Be Familiar with the Issues
The CPL website can be a go to resource! A few quick references:

Speaking Up

Equity and Critical Race Theory (CRT)

These two theories aligned with Marxist doctrine are infiltrating every aspect of our American culture. Parents are waking up to this indoctrination taking place in our schools and in nearly every subject area, including math! What is Critical Race Theory? (5 minute video)

Please read and utilize the information and resources on our A Critical Look at Equity and Critical Race Theory page. Review the How to Take a Stand and Speak Out section for action items that you can do to help combat this dangerous socialistic trend in your schools and community!

Racial Quotas in School Policies

The Dayton administration has initiated its own racial equity directive that the Federal Commission has rescinded. In October of 2017, the MN Department of Human Rights (MDHR) sent a letter to 43 school districts informing them that they have a “racial discipline disparity” in violation of the MN Human Rights Act. Unless they entered into a “settlement agreement” with the state, they would file charges and investigate them for civil rights violations. Minnesota is full steam ahead implementing the racial quotas in school discipline in schools throughout the state. Read more at Minnesota Goes Full Radical on Race Based School Discipline

TAKE ACTION:

  • Find your board’s “Collaborative Agreement”. If you are in one of the targeted districts, ask your school board to see the “plan” that they submitted and was approved by the state. Know what your district is doing! MDHR Website
  • If you are in one of the targeted districts, contact your school board members to express your displeasure over their transferring your local district’s discipline policy authority to the state. Express your displeasure over signing an agreement that assumes that all whites are racist and that discipline policies must be viewed through the lens of race.
  • Engage personally with your local House and Senate legislators. Tell them to put a stop to this travesty. Make this a campaign issue for 2020, starting now.
  • If you have children in school, engage with them about how wrong it is for students to be shamed for being white or for being any race at all. Ask them to share with you how discipline is being handled and what training or curriculum they are receiving regarding race. Protect your kids.

Questions for Schools About Transgender Policies & Practices

Find in the article questions that that every taxpayer should ask their local school administrators, including the administrators of elementary and middle schools. Then follow up by requesting to the school board that the policy be written mandating that restrooms and locker rooms correspond to objective biological sex. The specificity of the questions is necessary in order to ensure that accurate information is obtained, to make explicit the assumptions embedded in oppositions to restroom/locker room practices and to prevent administrators from obfuscating. More helpful information can be found in our Gender and Privacy Policies and Gender Identity.

Public Policies

Is Your Child Unsafe at the Doctor’s Office? Invasive Teen Questionnaire

A new HealthPartner’s policy is being implemented that requires clinicians to administer a 23-question health questionnaire to all pre-teens and teens… and it is to be answered only by the adolescent. After the adolescent fills out the questionnaire, the parent will then be asked to leave the child alone with the clinician so the clinician can engage the child “one-on-one” about the answers and personal concerns. We have questions! Read the details in Is Your Child Unsafe at the Doctor’s Office? and review the Questionnaire (PDF)
Action Steps Parents Can Take

  1. If your family uses a HealthPartners clinic or any clinic that participates in this kind of survey, respond to the letter you receive with a letter of your own.
    a. Forbid the clinic from holding a private meeting with your child and a clinician.
    b. Direct them to put your letter into your family’s health record files.
    c. Demand that they discontinue the use of this outrageous questionnaire.
  2. Refuse to have your child fill out the questionnaire or meet privately with a clinician. This is your right as a parent!
  3. Contact your legislators. Ask them to clarify into law that health providers:
    • May not impose themselves on families with personal, invasive questionnaires
    • Have no right to digitally store private data discovered about your child’s personal beliefs, feelings or family—unless it involves mandated legal reporting.
    • Must pro-actively inform parents that they and their child have a right to refuse to allow their minor child to meet alone with a clinician.
  4. Request a list of the health provider’s LGBTQIA resources. Please send your findings to Child Protection League at contact@cplaction.com.

Drag Queen Story Hour Exposed

Child Protection League and hundreds of thousands of parents and citizens exposed the library Drag Queen Story Hours. Child Protection League Action’s Facebook post (over 658,000 views as of this writing) went viral overnight and was picked up by numerous national news outlets. Libraries Violate Public Trust with Drag Queen Story Hours

Drag Queen Flashes Crotch to Children in Minnesota (4 minute video)

We are calling upon local libraries and the American Library Association (ALA) to end the Drag Queen Story Hour permanently. Under no circumstances should adult erotic performers be allowed to influence and interact with innocent and impressionable children using public funds and buildings. 21,460 Attend Library Conference Featuring Workshops on Drag Queen and Queering Elementary Schools

Ways to Get Involved

The following are ways that you can keep this momentum going to stop Drag Queens from being allowed to read LGBT+ and transgender books to our youngest children.

The Church and Politics: What Ministers and Churches Can Do to Affect Public Policy (PDF)

Church leaders who want to educate their members about civic issues, particular legislation and viewpoints, may be receiving false information from activist groups who are attempting to silence them with threats of losing tax-exempt status. Equip your church leaders with this important legal background from The Pacific Justice Institute.

Books

CPL Sponsored Books for Children

➤ Books by Barbara Anderson, illustrated by Rachel Gasper
Barbara’s three delightful books make for great reading and fun gifts! Barbara is graciously donating all proceeds ordered through our store to Child Protection League.

Her books can be purchased at our CPL Store or ordered from Amazon (choose Child Protection League at AmazonSmile and CPL receives an Amazon charitable donation for each purchase).

  • Whoo Am I?
    Newly released!     Barbara Anderson’s best children’s book yet! Written in verse form, the story is about a baby owl high up in a tree with his family, who longs to see the world below. His adventures begin when he accidentally tumbles down to the forest floor, where he quickly embraces his newfound freedom.Soon, however, the little owl realizes that being on his own is not as much fun as he thought. As he searches for food and a way back home, other woodland creatures come to his aid—and for the first time, he discovers his true longing for family. Will the owlet find his way back to where he is known, protected and lived, or will he have to live on the forest floor forever?Every child loves the sing song of verse. This could become a cherished possession with lasting memories!
  • Just Ducky
    Just Ducky is a heart-warming duck tale features adorably illustrated barnyard friends of Little Ducky who learns to appreciate the way he was made.Story Time with Miss Barbara: Barbara Anderson reads her book, Just Ducky (6 minute video).
  • The (Mostly) True Story of Taylor Swine the Political Pig
    An adorable story about a real pet pig! This story stars a lovable pig whose journey to fulfill her dream leads her to a caring family that understands her wish to become a political pig. Taylor Swine discovers the importance of family while learning how to take an active role in the political process.Story Time with Miss Barbara: Barbara Anderson reads her book, The (Mostly) True Story of Taylor Swine the Political Pig (6 minute video)
  • Bonus: Story Time with Miss Barbara
    As part of Story Time with Barbara, she has also read three additional books that children love.I Don’t Want to Be a Frog by Dev Petty (3 ½ minute video)
    He Bear, She Bear by Stan and Jan Berenstain (4 minute video)
    The Little Red Hen by Paul Galdone (4 minute video)

Books We Recommend

➤ Between the Covers: What’s Inside a Children’s Book?

by Deborah DeGroff

The subject of Children’s Literature affects everyone. We are told that reading books about being kind or not being a bully will help us to be kind and not be a bully. However, there are numerous children’s’ books condoning every vice known to man. And, those are supposed to leave children unscathed.
Perhaps we need to start looking BETWEEN THE COVERS.
Read the informative Book Review by Barb Anderson (PDF). A book well worth purchasing!

➤ The Invincible Family
Why the Global Campaign to Crush Motherhood and Fatherhood Can’t Win

by Kimberly Ells

The Invincible Family is a shocking and essential report on how your family could be threatened–and what you and all concerned citizens can do to defend the institution of the family and our inherent human rights.

 

Good Pictures-Bad Pictures cover➤ Good Pictures Bad Pictures: Porn-Proofing Today’s Young Kids

by Kristen A Jenson and Debbie Fox

Have you wanted to talk to your children about pornography but weren’t sure how? Good Pictures Bad Pictures is a great resource to read to your children to start the discussion.

➤ The War on Psychotherapy: When Sexual Politics, Gender Ideology and Mental Health Collide

War on Psychotherapy book coverby Christopher Doyle, MA, LPC, LCPC
Forward by Michael Brown, Ph.D and Preface by Dr Cretella, MD, FCP

What happens when a sexual culture war is fought on the mental health battlefield? Christopher Doyle provides a map of the unprecedented assault on personal freedom and religious liberty answering many of tough questions of our day.

Video presentation The War on Psychotherapy from The Witherspoon Fellowship (50 minutes)

➤ You’re Teaching My Child What?
By Miriam Gossman, M.D.
available in the CPL Store

You're Teaching My Child What cover“Dr. Grossman exposes the sordid truth about sex education – not based based on science but on liberal lies and politically correct propaganda. As a psychiatrist and expert on sexual education, Dr. Grossman cites example after example of schools and organizations whitewashing crucial information that doesn’t fit in with their “PC” agenda. What sex educators call an education, scientists would call a scam.

➤ Stolen Honor, Stolen Innocence
By Dr. Judith Reisman
available in the CPL Store

stolen-honorHow America was betrayed by the lies and sexual crimes of the mad “scientist”. The root cause of many of the societal ills we deal with today come from Alfred Kinsey and his “research”.
Note: Add the image for this book

➤ Paper Genders

by Walt Heyer

Written by a former transgender, the book in his own story, debunks the glowing promises of gender change surgery and exposes the heart-breaking story of suicide and wrecked lives that the advocates would prefer to keep hidden.

➤ book coverSex: The Rest of the Story

By LeAnna Benn and Alfred J Derby, MD

Comprehensive Sexual Education is damaging our most valuable resource—children. You will want this ebook as a reference guide. Using peer reviewed scientific studies, this activist’s guide to transforming sex education provides guidance to prepare for meetings, writing letters campaigns, organizing community members to take action, getting programs adopted and so much more. A must for your library!

➤ Being There: Why Prioritizing Motherhood in the First Three Years Matters

By Erica Komisar
An informative book about the importance of the mother-child bond. New research reveals that babies need their moms. Read the Book Review by Barb Anderson (PDF) and share the information with others.

Books With Warnings!

➤ WARNING: Pride Books for Kids
This website, Ultimate Pride Book List for Kids, lists with descriptions many of the pride books that your children may be exposed to at your public (and sometimes private) schools. Check to see if any of these are being used in your children’s classrooms and libraries. Take action!

➤ Something Happened in Our Town

This book written by Marianne Celano demonizes the police department and suggests that children should be afraid of police officers. Stereotyping police officers as biased and dangerous puts people of all races at great risk and undermines the ability of law enforcement to protect us all. The book is being recommended for elementary age children in many school districts in MN as well as in other states. Find out if this book is being used in your elementary schools and, if so, contact your school boards, education departments and governor to stop the book from being used in the classroom.

➤ I Am Jazz

“The book I Am Jazz, by Jazz Jennings and Jessica Herthel, contains a number of factual inaccuracies and very significant omissions. I am very concerned that children or even adults who read these books will be given false ideas about transgenderism. This will lead to the harm of children.”
An Endocrinologist Studies The Transgender Movement’s Most Popular Kid’s Book

➤ Social Justice Books

A dangerous ideology to transform the beliefs and values of our nation is invading our nation’s classrooms through intentional literary choices. Even though social justice books are often presented as merely multi-racial materials and diverse histories, the primary focus is to transform our schools and our culture.

Social Justice Books Teaching Revolution Through Literature
Samples of Social Justice Books

➤ Advocating for Islam?

These eight books, recommended to teachers for Minnesota public schools at the “Engaging Muslim Students in Public Schools” Training Seminars for Educators 2017 presented by Michael Abraham, teach the religion of Islam including prayer, religious holidays, reciting the Holy Books, etc.
Read the Book Review of Islamic Children’s Books (PDF) and stay informed.

➤ Cosmo Hurts Kids

The Cosmopolitan magazine sold at most store checkouts is pornographic and violates states’ “materials harmful to minors laws.” It should not be sold to kids! Learn more at Cosmo Hurts Kids.

➤ Eleanor & Park
by Rainbow Rowell

Parents of a 15 year old high school girl were astounded to read through the book Eleanor & Park, a book their daughter was given as part of her high school’s summer reading program. “The amount of vile profanity used throughout this publication was absolutely astounding! Never in our 43 years have either of us ever read anything more profane.”

Read this extensive review of Eleanor & Park to help you learn what the schools are using for young adult reading. The New York Times calls it a “beautiful, haunting love story” for young adults. The parents say the book is “pornographic and sexually explicit.” Be advised.
Eleanor & Park Review (PDF)