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Legislation

Voting in the November 8, 2022 Election

Voting for local candidates is as important as those who are running for state and federal positions. The Minnesota Parents Alliance provides a voter guide that identifies and endorses school board candidates across the state who are aligned with the mission of prioritizing academic achievement, equality and parental rights in their school district. Be sure to vote!

The new legislative session with new representatives will begin in 2023. CPL will be focusing on targeted legislation that we will post so you can track the legislation and contact your legislators. The information will include bill numbers and whether CPL supports or opposes the bill and why.
HF=House file; SF=Senate file.

Find your legislators at Who represents me?

Legislative History

CPL Focused MN Legislation 2022

Obscenity Exemption to Prohibit Obscenity in Schools Act
Digital and Online Library Database Resources for K-12 Students
Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE)
Constitutional Amendment for Education
Equal Rights Amendment
Protect Minnesota’s Kids Act
Defining Male and Female
Talk Therapy Ban – Prohibit Counseling for Minors
Parental Rights

CPL Focused MN Legislation 2020

Constitutional Amendment
Mandated Comprehensive Sex Education (CSE)
Drag Queen Story Hour
Gender Identity Proposal, MN Department of Education

CPL Focused MN Legislation 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

School Board Lookup
A useful tool to find your district and school board.
School Board Campaign Training
Online trainings to wage and win a successful campaign for your local school board.
- Leadership Institute: How to Run for School Board and Win
  The Leadership Institute is offering
- Nehemiah Reset: A collection of training offered by various organizations
School Boards: What to Do
Helpful resources from National Association of Scholars
Sample Questions to Ask Your School Board Members (PDF)
A Narrative (PDF)
How a few volunteers approached a school board.
Talking with Your School District (PDF) and Talking with Your Legislators (PDF)
Although both documents focus on the issue of CSE, the principles on speaking to your public officials are applicable.

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

Sex-ed curriculum used in Richfield schools asks students to role play gay sex scenarios
Parents exposed the comprehensive sex education, 3Rs (Rights, Respect Responsibility), at the Richfield school board meeting. In just one of the many lessons, straight students are asked to role play as gay and transgender characters navigating sex scenarios. Read the article and view the testimony for a better understanding of the inappropriateness and danger of this curriculum.
Statement to the New Ulm School District concerning Equity (PDF)
Equity which is part of Critical Race Theory is infiltrating our schools.
Parents Oppose Critical Race Theory at Elk River School Board Meeting
Parents are speaking up in MN. Includes video of meeting.
ISD 728: Concerned parents fight critical race theory: ‘If you care about our kids,’ don’t teach CRT
Speaking up at school board meetings is making an impact. Includes video of comments.
In a Massachusetts town: How parents are fighting – and winning – a brutal fight with school officials over aggressive LGBT middle school agenda.
Learn what these parents did to fight against this radical agenda in their schools.
Parents speak out at school board meeting, call BLM ‘toxic,’ ‘poisonous’
A husband and wife speak up at a Lakeville School Board meeting in MN. “We’re here today to represent the millions of black Americans who disagree with the Black Lives Matter movement.”
Do Better FCPS
It started with a petition and now a web presence to hold Fairfax (Delaware) County Public school leadership and school board members accountable.
Virginia parents rally to recall critical race theory-pushing school board members
Bitter debate over racism in schools puts Virginia county in national spotlight

Becker School Board: On March 14, 2022, Betsy Armstrong and Chris Klippen along with Julie Quist of CPL attempted to give a presentation to the Becker School Board as a balance and counterpoint to an 80-minute presentation OutFront had given to the Becker School Board a few months previously. The event was interrupted by disrespectful students and came to the attention of the media, nation-wide. The reported misinformation and at no time did any journalist call or interview CPL before blasting their same rhetoric from one report to another. No Other Side, To Our Pride. A must read to understand the opposition and indoctrination of students in schools.

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

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.
Refuse to have your child fill out the questionnaire or meet privately with a clinician. This is your right as a parent!
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.
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

No longer just in libraries, Drag Queen Story Hour (DQSH) is now in our schools! That is correct. Your tax dollars not only support DQSH in libraries but now is showing up in schools as well. Please read The Real Story Behind Drag Queen Story Hour to learn the history and real goals of DQSH.

How the Story Began in Minnesota

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.

Watch Drag Queen Story Hour (22 minutes)
presentation by Barb Anderson
Find out if your library or school has hosted Drag Queen Story Hours.
Contact your school administrators and school boards! Contact the library directors, the library board members as well as the American Library Association (ALA) with your concerns.
Submit a letter
Adopt these letters for schools as well.
Sample letter to editor: What is going on in our public libraries?
Sample letter to city council: Promoting Drag Queen Story Hour to Children During Pride Event (PDF)
Inform your legislative candidates.
Find out if they can tell you why publicly funded libraries and schools are no longer a safe place for children!
Apply to serve on the library board or run for school board.
Example: In Hennepin County MN, applications are being taken for library board members until December 31. Interviews and appointments are decided by the Hennepin County Commissioners.
Sample: Testimony Before Hennepin Library Committee (PDF)

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

Find additional book listings to help in evaluating the reading material encouraged and often assigned in many school libraries and classrooms at Books in our curriculum section.

CPL Sponsored Books for Children

➤ Books by Barbara Anderson, illustrated by Rachel Gasper

Barbara now has three delightful children’s books that make for great reading and fun gifts!

Barbara is graciously donating all proceeds ordered through Our Store to Child Protection League. Her books may also be ordered through Amazon (if you choose Child Protection League at AmazonSmile, our organization will receive a charitable donation from 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 cover by 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-honor How 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”.
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➤ 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 cover Sex: 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.

Minnesota Police and Peace Officers Association Letter (PDF)
Letter to MN Governor about this book being recommended for elementary schools by the MN Department of Health and Department of Education.
Something Happened in Our Town (PDF)
Book review by Barb Anderson

➤ 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)