How will Bergen’s “disinformation” mandate handle transubstantiation?

How will Murphy-appointed truth arbitrators deal with concepts like transubstantiation and transgenderism?
 

 
By Rubashov
 
A Republican legislator, Assemblyman Brian Bergen of Morris County, recently wrote a column defending the new “disinformation” curriculum mandate signed into law by Governor Phil Murphy in January. The new mandate had the support of nearly every Republican legislator in New Jersey.
 
Outside of New Jersey, you can’t find a Republican who wants to give government the ultimate power to determine what is true and what is false – and then teach it to children. In New Jersey, you can’t find an elected Republican legislator who doesn’t want to hand the Murphy administration that power. Why?
 
Under the new “disinformation” curriculum mandate, Governor Murphy's appointed government truth arbitrators will set standards on how to handle children’s questions about concepts like “transubstantiation” and “transgenderism”. How will these truth arbitrators address these ideas?
 
Both are faith-based concepts. Transubstantiation is “the conversion of the substance of the Eucharistic elements into the body and blood of Christ at consecration, only the appearances of bread and wine still remaining.” It is a major element in Christian and especially Roman Catholic theology.
 
Transgenderism is the idea that an individual can change gender by self-determination. Of course, official truth arbitrators would rather you use the word “transness”, as the word “transgenderism” is now considered to be officially “offensive”. If you persist in looking the word up, you can see how official truth arbitrators have already been at work. The Cambridge Dictionary, for example, provides this definition and present it as a fact:
 
Transgenderism: [noun] the fact of not having your gender match the body you were born with. This word is often used by people who think that this is a bad thing, or who want to suggest that transgender people are wrong about their gender.
 
Example: The county school system defended the new lessons that introduce students to sexual orientation and transgenderism in grades eight and 10.

Note: This word was more common in the past and it is still used in some formal writing, but it is now considered offensive by many people.
 
That isn’t so much a definition as it is an ideological talking point. That’s how corrupted etymology has become on the Internet. So, which term will be presented as fact and which as fiction by the official government truth arbitrators of the Murphy administration? And mind you, both are faith-based. Both can be proven false by the scientific method.
 
And to whom will those found to be “untruthful” appeal?

Once labeled “disinformation” – as Galileo Galilei was, for teaching the fact that the earth revolves around the sun – to whom will the accused make their appeal? Will Murphy establish a court of truth for such appeals? Will this court handle accusations of heresies against truth, with unrepentant cases prosecuted by the civil courts – as they did during the Inquisition?
 
Having labeled disinformation “dangerous” as the current Legislature has, will some future Legislature empanel a committee to combat the distribution of “disinformation”? Will it drag heretics before it – label them “unpatriotic” – and ask them to name others who participate in the vast “disinformation” conspiracy?
 
Perhaps Assemblyman Bergen is salivating at the thought of purging all “non-truthers”? But before he does, let us reach into the past for some calming words, written at another time of madness and committees and “truth” and “patriotism” and “heresy”:
 
“The Congress has the right to do nearly anything conceivable. It has only to define a situation or an action as a ‘clear and present danger’ to public safety, public morals, or public health. The selling and eating of mince pie could be made a crime if Congress determined that mince pie was a danger to public health – which it probably is. Since many parents raise their children badly, mother love could be defined as a danger to the general welfare.”

“The Congress had a perfect right to pass the Alien and Sedition Act. This law was repealed because of public revulsion. The Escaped Slave laws had to be removed because the people of free states found them immoral. The Prohibition laws were so generally flouted that all law suffered as a consequence.
 
We have seen and been revolted by the Soviet Union’s encouragement of spying and telling, children reporting their parents, wives informing on their husbands. In Hitler’s Germany, it was considered patriotic to report your friends and relations to authorities. And we in America have felt safe from and superior to these things. But are we so safe or superior?”
 
“In their attempts to save the nation from attack, they [Congress] could well undermine the deep personal morality which is the nation’s final defense.”
 
“My father was a great man, as any lucky man’s father must be. He taught me rules I do not think are abrogated by our nervous and hysterical times. These laws have not been annulled; these rules of attitudes. He taught me – glory to God, honor to my family, loyalty to my friends, respect for the law, love of country and instant and open revolt against tyranny, whether it come from the bully in the schoolyard, the foreign dictator, or the local demagogue.
 
And, if this be treason, gentlemen, make the most of it.”
 
John Steinbeck (1957)
 
American writer. Author of The Red Pony, Tortilla Flat, In Dubious Battle, Of Mice and Men, The Grapes of Wrath, The Moon Is Down, Cannery Row, The Wayward Bus, The Pearl, Burning Bright, East of Eden, Sweet Thursday, The Winter of Our Discontent, Travels with Charley: In Search of America, America and Americans, and Steinbeck in Vietnam: Dispatches from the War (among many others).

John Steinbeck
(1902-1968)

Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1940)
Nobel Prize in Literature (1962)

"If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear."

George Orwell

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