For the record, I did not see Nefarious this weekend, but I’m in the middle of making plans with a couple of buddies to see it this next week if we can arrange it. It grossed an estimated $1.3 million on 933 screens for an average of $1,425 per screen. That’s puny against two other new movies in the horror genre, The Pope’s Exorcist and Renfield, which made $9.1 million and $7.7 million, respectively. The new movies were shown on more than 3x the number of screens as Nefarious, though, and had a ton of marketing behind them.
Nefarious is also a good word to describe what is happening across our country with the trans-madness, the flooding of the US with foreigners across our non-existent southern border, the grooming of children in our public government-run schools, the anarchy on our city streets, the demands for reparations from people who were never slaves to people who never owned slaves, an economy in tatters, the rise of China as a military threat, and the woke religion infiltrating businesses trying to earn 100% on the CEI from the Human Rights Campaign.
Essentially, the bill allows licensed youth shelters to harbor a child against parents’ wishes while proceeding with sex-change procedures or abortions. Put another way, not only will parents have no say in the life-altering decision of girls and boys to defy their biological gender (or to kill a human life), but the children can be kept away from their parents and homes.
Note well: This is not meant to be a rare escape hatch for cases meeting the legal definition of parental abuse or neglect. Instead, it treats the mere possibility of parental opposition to “gender transition” as the very equivalent of abuse. The automatic assumption is in favor of the gender transition at least temporarily desired by a child or adolescent — age groups not necessarily known for wisdom or for consistency of emotions — and against consultation with parents.
And, again, all of this is to be done while the child is kept from living with her own parents, unless and until state bureaucrats decide the parents merit “reunification.”
The bill was passed 57-39 with the unanimous support of Democrats and the unanimous opposition of Republicans.
Think about this. A state in our “union” has now passed a law that does not require — in fact, discourages — a youth shelter or host home to tell a child’s parents where the child is. In effect, the state, through these shelters, takes the child from the parents. They do so under the guise that they are ‘protecting’ the child from parents who do not support the child’s desire to “transition.”
The bill does not require proof of abuse in the household nor even an allegation of abuse. As a result, merely seeking “protected health care services” is enough of a reason to keep the runaway’s location hidden from parents and clears the way for children between the ages of 13 and 18 to stay at these facilities without their parents’ knowledge for an indefinite time while seeking services related to gender dysphoria and gender transitioning.
The state supplants the parents if they refuse to consent to their child’s gender transition surgeries.
Sen. Marko Liias is a far-Left politician and (as far as I can tell) a homosexual man. His statement that “trans youth have been under a nationwide attack” is patently false, but that doesn’t stop him from declaring it so.
This is a moral abomination. It assumes that not allowing a child to undergo such surgeries is wrong and therefore abusive. It assumes as healthy what Normals would consider abusive — the radical, irreversible and destructive amputation or mutilation of healthy body parts — and makes evil what we would consider good — standing in the gap against such extreme self-harm.
If a parent says no to removing their 14-year-old daughter’s breasts, it is seen as neglect or abuse by many progressive activists and politicians. And that’s precisely the kind of health care service that would be allowed without parental consent, according to the bill summary.
This is Hitleresque totalitarianism — an all-powerful state strips you of your God-given right to raise your children in a biblically-centered home. Not that every parent would do so, but that’s not what we’re talking about here.
This is terrifying. That the state would pass a law that legally intervenes between parents and their children isn’t new, of course; laws exist that allow the state to step in when there is legitimate abuse, such as locking your children in a dog cage, or beating them to death. Being opposed to a so-called ‘gender transition’ is not abuse by any stretch of the imagination.
Now that we’ve gotten to this stage, it isn’t hard to imagine a day when taking a child to church is grounds for harboring them from parents in the same way. Why not? If a child can flee to a state shelter to follow through on an extreme, irreversible body modification, why not run to the state for something less extreme? Once the state becomes the de facto parent, what stops them from usurping more and more decision-making power when a kid doesn’t get what they want?
In my opinion, this is a bridge too far, an egregious over-reach by the state. The people of the State of Washington must fight it first in the courts, then, if necessary, in the streets.
When will enough be enough?