Lieutenant governor of Texas slams radical left’s agenda to disrupt family

Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick said the battle over abortion and the sexualization of children K–2 in public schools was “a battle of those who believe that they are God and have control over life and death and even their sex and those who believe there is a Creator, who believe in God, believe in Jesus Christ.”

(Article by Patrick Butler republished from TheEpochTimes.com)

Patrick made his comments during a 15-minute phone interview at Dallas area radio station 660 AM “The Answer” on April 6.

“Whatever their denomination is and their faith is, they believe there is a higher power who decides life and a higher power who designed us as human beings,” Patrick said.

He also described the “radical left ideology” as the “Marxist, socialist agenda to disrupt the family.”

In a series of communications in 2022, Patrick has made known his concerns about primary school education, higher education, and abortion.

Previously, Patrick has advocated the revocation of tenure for professors hired by the Texas university system; he has vowed to review books in public school libraries promoting transgender identity; he has affirmed the so-called “Heartbeat Bill” that restricts abortions after about six weeks, and he has now framed the gender issue in early primary school education in religious terms.

On April 4, the lieutenant governor, who’s up for reelection in November, released a campaign email after the Walt Disney Company had objected to the recent Florida legislation restraining schools from teaching young children about sexual orientation or gender identity.

Disney said its goal was to see the Florida law repealed or defeated.

Patrick not only defended the Florida law’s implementation but said he wants to see it “enacted in Texas.”

“I will make this law a top priority in the next session,” Patrick wrote. “This issue will be addressed in our interim Education Committee Hearings under Parental Rights.”

The Walt Disney Company in Orlando, Florida, released a statement at the end of March saying the Florida measure “should never have passed and should never have been signed into law.”

“Our goal as a company is for this law to be repealed by the legislature or struck down in courts, and we remain committed to supporting the national and state organizations working to achieve that,” the statement read.

“We are dedicated to standing up for the rights and safety of LGBTQ+ members of the Disney family, as well as the LGBTQ+ community in Florida and across the country.”

Patrick criticized Disney in his April 4 email.

“This crazy ‘woke’ radical agenda is pushed by a few, but rejected by almost everyone in America, across all political spectrums,” he wrote.

“What can we do? Until they change their corporate philosophy, stop spending money with them. Cut off the Disney Channel. Cancel your trip or cruise, if one is planned.”

Let Kids Be Kids

After being roundly criticized in some of the North Texas Press on April 5 and his email being characterized as a “Tirade against Disney,” Patrick took to the airwaves the next day.

“Can’t we let kids be kids, especially in kindergarten and first and second grade?” he said.

“We have the left who wants to teach, ‘If you’re a girl, you can be a boy,’ or vice versa. … That is not what parents want their children taught at that age, and some at any age—there’s no need for it, kids don’t understand it and parents don’t want it.”

However, his strongest statements were for the “left.”

“The radical left is pushing this ideology into our system, which is the Marxist, socialist agenda to disrupt the family unit,” Patrick said.

His campaign isn’t “Don’t Say Gay in Texas,” and no one should be bullied because of their orientation, he said.

“If someone chooses to be gay, that’s their lifestyle; just don’t try to turn society upside down about it,” Patrick said.

Playing God

“LGBTQ+ has to understand that other people have rights, too. Parents have rights to say, ‘I don’t want my first and second graders to learn about being gay or lesbian or that they can change their sex.’”

“If you can take a life in the womb because you want to, you play God,” Patrick said. “If you can change your sex because you want to, even though you know you can’t—boys will always be boys and girls will always be girls that’s biology—then you play God.

“This is a battle between those who believe they are God and have control over life and death and even their sex, and those who believe there is a Creator, believe there is a God, believe in Jesus Christ.

“This is what this battle is about. This is the heart of it.”

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