Senator Vin Gopal has a Back-Pedaling Problem

October 20, 2023

From NJStandsUp

NJ State Senator Vin Gopal (Dem-Monmouth County) has a habit of causing a problem then backtracking with “new” legislation to “fix” the problem he caused in the first place. Gopal’s a back-pedaler.
 

As one of NJ’s most powerful senators, Gopal sits on three State committees, and is Chair of the Senate Education Committee.  What have the people of Monmouth County and the State of NJ gotten from his leadership?  Gopal has not called a meeting of the Education Committee since March. Why not? Could it be because Gopal was the primary sponsor of the controversial 2020 bill which led to the NJ Board of Education passing the most radical sex education curriculum NJ has ever seen?  After an outcry from furious parents in both parties, even Governor Murphy had to step in to quell the anger.  He ordered a review of the new sex education standards.  Of course, this “review” changed nothing; it was all a show.
 

Gopal responded to the sex ed curriculum by back-pedaling, distancing himself from the whole debacle, "I am horrified by some of these words I'm seeing in some of these sample lesson plans," said Gopal said last April. "No district has to (or in my opinion should) use the words 'masturbation' or others discussed in the examples listed within those standards."
 

Since Gopal is so “horrified” why didn’t he take steps to fix it?  Is it all just platitudes?  Does he not know who is creating the NJ State sex and health curriculum?  With an organization like Advocates for Youth steering the sex education lessons of innocent NJ kids, what did Gopal expect?  Advocates for Youth’s mission statement reads: “Young people understand that reproductive and sexual health and rights are inextricably tied to social justice and the fight for liberation. Join thousands of youth activists and adult allies as we build a better and more equitable world.”
 

AHEM, Excuse me?  These are your tax dollars at work.  What does social justice have to do with preparing NJ school children for a healthy understanding of their bodies and sexual health?
 

Knowing he had to take some action to fix the mess he took part in creating, Gopal blazed in like a hero wearing a Superman cape and came up with a new bill: "Transparency in Health & Sex Education Curriculum." This bill would require school districts to post curriculum online for parents to view.  Of course, the bill, which was introduced last year, has gone nowhere.  So now parents are left with an out-of-control State Board of Education stomping all over parental rights and exposing our youngest kids to age-inappropriate gender instruction in elementary school.  The Democrats are being forced to respond to these burning issues, but they do nothing about it, even though Governor Murphy holds control over the Department of Education and the Democrats.  These are not neat “liberal” versus "conservative" issues. They affect all parents throughout the State.
 

And the problem just keeps getting worse. This past August the NJ State BOE passed the controversial “Chapter 7,” curriculum guidelines for all NJ schools.  These guidelines completely erase biological sex, eliminate the terms “male” and “female,” replace gender-specific sports teams with gender identity preference, and replace the term “equality” with “equity” in every aspect of public education.   What does Vin Gopal have to say?  Nothing.  Absolutely nothing.
 

Gopal is a back-pedaler.  VOTE OUT GOPAL and let’s open the State House doors for him as he back-pedals his way out of Trenton.
 

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