Out of the Mouth of Babes

I want to address a situation

That took me by storm today

“Out of the mouths of babes”

I’ve often heard people say.

You will wonder like I did

At the news that I received

And even as I think about it now

I just cannot believe.

A little girl just ten years old,

Accused while at primary school

Of being homophobic

Said, she was quite confused.

She only learnt the other day

The meaning of the word

So when referred to as homophobic

She was quite perturbed.

She was excluded from school

For alleged homophobic comments,

Five days denied of her education

Five days from school she spent.

A child’s education was withheld

When she spoke out against a wrong

And what is so amazing is,

The school system went along.

She did not hate LGBT people,

Only that it was taught in school,

And that ever since such had begun

The students were being confused.

Before the teaching of LGBT

Students were sure of their gender

But now since its introduction

To madness they have surrendered.

Out of the mouth of a babe,

A primary school child of just ten years

And, in opposition to the system,

A vital truth appears.

  

A child’s gender was never in doubt

Even two-year-olds knew,

Whether girl or boy, they could tell

By the facts within their view.

And no one could ever fool them

However much they insisted,

They could differentiate girl from boy

And when challenged, they resisted.

I know a two-year-old

She is adamant she is a girl

And if you should suggest otherwise,

She would think you are absurd.

But now even teachers vacillate

And people that should know better too,

“When old enough they can decide…”

I wonder, is that is your view?

Children knew their gender

Before they knew what LGBT meant,

The fact there is now confusion

Is what this ten-year-old resents.

And quite right she is, though young,

And that truth we all know

But for some sinister, hidden reason,

We don’t want that truth to show.

When a ten-year-old is punished

For boldly speaking forth the truth,

Quite a lot must be wrong with us

And therein lies the proof.

The fact it was Gay Pride Month

Only makes it all the worse,

It just goes to show to one and all

In education what now comes first.

“Oh! What a tangled web we weave

When first we practise to deceive”,

When the truth we won’t receive

Then a lie we will believe.

Stewart Russell © July 2019

“Oh! What a tangled web we weave

When first we practise to deceive”.

Extracted from a play written by Sir Walter Scott

 Because that, when they knew God, they glorified him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened.

Romans 1:21 KJV