To Nobody's Surprise

A few things which ought to surprise nobody:

First, there is the New York Times' coverage of Sen. Mary Landrieu's great  and beneficent leadership the Keystone pipeline's rejection by the senate. They wrote two stories before the vote, one which would praise her for successfully getting the pipeline approved, and one which would praise her in the event that the bill failed. The first praises her leadership and tenacity which enabled her to get things done, the second her leadership and tenacity to fight the good fight even against insurmountable odds. No, really. Landrieu is the current (Democratic) senator from Louisiana, and is facing a probable loss in the run-off elections to the Republican challenger.

Second, there is a recent sex-ed conference for middle-school and high-school kids which took place in Oregon:

"Even the mainstream media is jumping on the news that children being sent by schools to a sexuality conference in Oregon encourages all kinds of obscene sexual behavior, taking meth-amphetamines, simulated sex acts and even instructions on how to have sex over the internet... 

Diller says she came away from the conference deeply scarred. “I monitor Planned Parenthood sex education on a regular basis and I have seen some unbelievably horrifying situations that young people are put in because of the abortion giant’s fixation with sexualizing children, but never have I seen so many adults work so hard to defile young people than at this conference,” she said. 

She also said that she grieves for the students “who spent two long days with adults who relentlessly threw the most vile, deceptive, sexually soaked garbage in their faces in an apparently successful attempt to numb them to sin, to turn them against Christianity, and to tempt them with the embrace of debauchery in some of its most vile apparitions.”"

In addition to encouraging these kids to engage in all sorts of "obscene sexual behavior," this conference is encouraging the taking of meth-amphetamines? This seems like an outrage, a shock, a horror: but it would not really surprise me if true. Horrifying, yes, but surprising, no.

Surely Just a Coincidence

One of the pushers of perversity in Canada has been arrested on charges of child pornography (no conviction, yet). Specifically, Benjamin Levin, Ontario's deputy minister of education from 2004-2009, the man who pushed a rather too comprehensive form of sex-education for children:

An indication of the man’s importance and closeness to Canada’s leftist elites was shown at the gay pride parade in Toronto, held just a few days before his arrest, where he stood in line with Wynne, federal Liberal leader Justin Trudeau, and former interim federal Liberal leader and former Ontario NDP Premier Bob Rae – the leading trio of Canadian Liberal Party.... 

Levin hasn’t been convicted of anything of course, but we cannot fail to mention that he has been at the centre of educational politics and power for a generation, and was a major figure in the educational establishment that gave us the most recent extreme and perverse sex education curriculum....For those who have forgotten just how sordid and provocative this trash was, it proposed that 11-year-olds learn about gender identity, homophobia, personal satisfaction, and discover their bodies through masturbation and vaginal lubrication. At 12 and 13 years of age they were to be taught about anal and oral sex. At all times they would be told that there were numerous genders, that we were the gender we wanted to be or thought we were, and not necessarily what we were born. There was also a concentration on homosexuality, bisexuality and gender transfer, and a weird, grotesque obsession with loveless and fringe sexuality that has no place in education, and certainly not in the education of such young children.

With people like this running education in Canada (and really in America too) is it any surprise that the country's sexual mores are in a continual state of freefall?