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Hi, I'm Jim Denison with Denison Forumn. And this is the daily article from Monday,

March 15th, 2021. The title is, school teaches kids to stop using mom and dad, why this story

matters and the rock on which we must stand. So here's the story. It's about a private school in

Manhattan that's encouraging its students to

stop using the terms mom, dad, and parents because these words make what they call assumptions

about kids' home lives. Instead, children are encouraged to use the terms grown-ups, folks,

family, or guardians as substitutes. In its push for gender inclusion, the school warns its students to substitute

people for boys and girls. Rather than lining up as boys and girls, they're to line up alphabetically

or by types of shoes. If someone says, a boy can't marry a boy, they're encouraged to respond by

saying, people can love and commit to whomever they please.

It's their choice whom they marry. Instead of wishing each other Merry Christmas or even

happy holidays, they are to say, have a great break. When I saw the story, I assumed it was

another highly secularized school at war with Judeo-Christian morality. Multiple examples of

those kinds of conflicts are in the news these days. For instance, a curriculum being considered

in California actually seeks to displace Christian culture by recommending that teachers instead

lead students in a series of songs and chants to the Aztec gods. By the way, the Aztecs traditionally

worshipped those gods with cannibalism and human sacrifice. Well, it turns out this story isn't

like that. The school in Manhattan is Grace Church School. A school official explained their

language policy this way. As part of our

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