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====== Can the States Defeat Lunacy? ======


Here we are, the greatest nation in all of mankind’s history, arguing about the “right” to mutilate, sterilize and poison the most vulnerable and precious among us: our children.


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|> **[[https://nation.time.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/8/2012/03/defining-deviancy-down-amereducator.pdf|"A society that loses its sense of outrage is doomed to extinction." Judge Edwin Torres, NY State Supreme Court in Defining Deviancy Down]]**\\ \\ The opening link refers to Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan’s seminal essay on the dangers of accepting deviant behavior. Written in the winter 1993 edition of //The American Scholar//, it is essential reading for understanding the insanity we see swirling around us. A classical liberal senator from NY understood the need to define and prohibit deviant behavior. How far have we fallen when politicians now embrace particularly evil agendas?\\ \\ **The Destruction of the Innocent**\\ \\ The Bible makes clear that the harming of our children is considered a most grievous offense in God’s eyes: [[https://www.kingjamesbibleonline.org/Bible-Verses-About-Those-Who-Hurt-Children/|It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones (Luke 17:2)]]. Yet here we are, the greatest nation in all of mankind’s history, arguing about the “right” to mutilate, [[https://acpeds.org/transgender-interventions-harm-children|sterilize and poison]] the most vulnerable and precious among us: our children. How we got to this point is eloquently explained in Moynihan’s essay. Each time a societal norm is expanded or destroyed to accommodate behavior hostile to that society, the level of deviancy is allowed to increase.\\ \\ **Florida Joins the Resistance**\\ \\ On [[https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/ron-desantis-gender-transition-treatment/2023/05/17/id/1120196/|May 17, Florida]] officially banned the gender mutilation and poisoning of minors [[https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/articles/2023-03-30/what-is-gender-affirming-care-and-which-states-have-restricted-it-in-2023|joining 19 others]] in saying NO to the willful harming of the innocent and naïve. [[https://www.reuters.com/world/us/texas-becomes-largest-state-ban-transgender-care-minors-2023-06-03/|Texas]] recently became the largest state to ban the gender “change” madness as numerous other states have legislation queued up for the next round of legislative sessions. The separate states, as [[https://conventionofstates.com/news/florida-as-an-island-of-resistance|“Islands of Resistance”]], are asserting their right as a fourth, and most powerful, branch of the government by refusing to acquiesce to madness.\\ \\ > **[[https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Adams/05-03-02-0001-0004-0016|"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence..." John Adams 1770]]**\\ \\ John Adams famous summation during the Boston Massacre trial is a ringing call to clear thinking. XX and XY are the only possibilities for gender. If anyone, whether an individual, an organization, or a government, attempts to redefine a fact, it is our duty to call out the falsehood lest the lie grows in acceptance. The [[https://cadehildreth.com/gender-spectrum/|“spectrum of gender identity”]] is an absolute biological falsehood and must be vigorously rejected.\\ \\ COSA encourages ALL US citizens to acknowledge that children are our most precious resource. They are the future citizens and leaders of our republic. Regardless of political or cultural alignments, please  [[https://www.usa.gov/elected-officials/|forge respectful relationships]] with your town, city, county, and state representatives but let them know how you wish to be governed and insist upon a normal childhood and adolescence for our kids.\\ \\ #|PETITION_WIDGET{petition_tag:Can the states defeat lunacy?;coalition_id:;anedot_url:}|#|


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|Created:                 |2023-06-13 17:17 GMT|
|Updated:                 |2023-09-12 07:00 GMT|
|Published:               |2023-06-19 04:00 GMT|
|Converted:               |2025-11-11 12:01 GMT|
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