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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The medical procedures Gopal’s “transparency” bill is covering up.

By Rubashov

Much of the language used in the legislation coming out of Trenton confuses rather than clarifies. But the politicians behind it know what their intentions are, what they are trying to bring about. They use language to hide a reality they’d rather not discuss.

At the Wannsee Conference, Hitler’s men planned the mass murder of six million human beings. But they never said that they were killing anyone. They used the term “evacuation”. They were “evacuating” them. Very big and terrible things often start with the official use of language to obscure reality.

S-2481 is before the Legislature this week. It is a dangerous, anti-child bill designed to cover-up the Murphy administration’s controversial LGBTQ+ sexual indoctrination curriculum.
 
In response to the outrage expressed by parents across New Jersey, Senate Education Chairman Vin Gopal introduced S-2481 (the “Transparency in Comprehensive Health and Physical Education Curriculum Act”). In theory, Gopal’s bill would require public schools to solicit meaningful parental input on health and physical education curriculum. In fact, the language in the bill does the opposite. The wording of the bill reiterates and reinforces the standards set for curriculum delivery in all subject areas.
 
Senator Gopal was a co-sponsor of the legislation responsible for the mandatory curriculum his new bill is designed to address. He introduced this new bill last month amid a great degree of secrecy. Gopal held hearings on his bill the same day it was introduced, before the Senate Education Committee, which he chairs.
 
The public had not the opportunity to read or comment on the bill before it was introduced, and a committee hearing held to refer it to the entire Legislature. Parents who traveled across the state to Trenton to attend the hearing wondered how they could testify on a bill that had not seen or read? Vin Gopal’s so-called “transparency bill” was nevertheless passed out of committee without any transparency.
 
Among the many points made and questions asked about the legislation they had just seen, were these:
 
Section 3. a. of Gopal’s bill reads: “A board of education or the board of trustees of a charter school or renaissance school project shall ensure that curriculum and instruction are designed and delivered in such a way that all students are able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills specified by the New Jersey Student Learning Standards.”
 
Gopal’s committee was asked if he meant that fifth graders must be able to demonstrate the knowledge of skill of masturbation? Parents got no answers.
 
It was also pointed out that Gopal’s so-called “transparency” bill actually codified the “questionable and highly sexually exploitative” sex education standards into law. Gopal’s response was: “We have to pass this bill quickly so that there is time for parents to look at the standards and curriculum.” Gopal never addressed that point made that his bill actually codifies the objectionable sex ed standards.
 
Here is a sample what parents have found objectionable in Gopal’s bill:
 

• Gender identity issues to first and second graders.

• Masturbation, and multiple options for pregnancy, including abortion and gestational surrogacy taught to fifth-graders.

• Oral, vaginal, and anal sex taught to eighth-graders, which the Governor’s wife, Tammy Murphy, openly and publicly lobbied The New Jersey State Board of Education to insert into the new sex-education standards.

 
Does Senator Gopal intend to fully legalize these standards into law in his hastily un-transparent “Transparency bill?” Do any of these elected officials really understand what medical procedures they are advocating when they push the “T” in LGBTQ+? Especially on children. Do they understand that “Transitioning” children has become a big business in America?
 
Watch this interview and then ask yourself: Shouldn’t state government’s endorsement of medical procedures like these come with a warning? Aren’t they opening themselves (and the taxpayers they represent) up to a lawsuit if they don’t issue a warning? 

Do Vin Gopal and the Democrats know the dangers of "transitioning" for children? Do they care about children or special interest pressure groups?

Today’s Star-Ledger editorial explains why fewer and fewer read it

By Rubashov

In its editorials, the Star-Ledger has often referred to its predicament and has sadly complained about its declining readership. At the foot of everything its editorial board writes there’s a begging bowl: “Our journalism needs your support. Please subscribe today to NJ.com.”

Editorials are something the Star-Ledger gives away for free. For the rare pieces of investigative journalism or in-depth news coverage – those are behind a pay wall – you need to give them money to read it. But nobody pays for the editorials.

And why would they?

The editorial board of the Star-Ledger is entirely predictable. Its writers are close-minded and lack any intellectual curiosity at all. As writers, they appear to lack the imagination to place themselves in the shoes of someone living outside the bubble they inhabit. They think in stereotypes. And they lie.

For example, in today’s offering by the editorial board, they claim it was Fox News that “fanned this whole firestorm” about school curriculum when, in fact (and as the personal testimony of parents reveals) it was the pandemic, the mandated school closings, and the consequent distance learning that did it. Parents saw what their children were learning. It was like taking a walk through the kitchen of an unhygienic restaurant. Nobody needs the media to tell you that you shouldn’t be eating there. It’s as simple as that.

If someone wanted to create a new bar game (along the lines of Quizzo) that gave players a topic and then asked them to guess the position on it taken by the editorial board of the Star-Ledger, it would be a dud. Nobody would ever fail to guess correctly. It would get boring – just like the Star-Ledger editorials.

The Star-Ledger is so predictable that it is boring even to the partisans it is trying to impress.

People enjoy reading different angles. They like an unexpected twist. That’s what makes mysteries so popular. Can anyone imagine Tom Moran as a mystery writer? What would the characters sound like in a Julie O’Connor novel? The average reader would have it figured out by page three.

We’re not sure if reading Star-Ledger editorials is a cause of dementia, but it can’t help. Maybe they should apply a warning label?

When they make an effort to get the reader’s attention, the editorial board relies on a prodigious amount of name-calling. A week or so ago, they were calling on people to travel to Pennsylvania to fight fascism. No kidding, like ISIS asks for volunteers to travel to Syria. But even after being jabbed with this fork, 99.9 percent of their readers went back to sleep. Hey, it’s not like Tom Moran is going to be there beside you when you get to Syria, er… Pennsylvania. He was just using a word he hoped would get your attention – if only for a moment.

The tone of the editorial board is a cross between a harridan, a karen, with a bit of church lady thrown in. As a rule, unpleasant, humorless, bathed in snobbery, pickled in certainty, always in a lather over something, screeching hysterically while trying desperately to remove an item unpleasantly lodged up the bunghole, and generally unhappy with life. Today’s editorial went further. It took on airs of official superiority. The editorial wasn’t only partisan, it went further and formally aligned the newspaper with the government. Now that is like Syria! Here’s what they wrote:

“Faced with the uproar over sex education in New Jersey, in which conservative critics continue to claim the state is ‘grooming’ children and stoke fears about the standards, the chair of our Senate education committee, Vin Gopal, took the high road.”

Our boys! Our flag! Our Senate education committee! By jingo!

No, it wasn’t the “high road”. It was the partisan road. It was the road of fear. There is as much “high road” in Trenton as there is “love” in rape. Everyone – from the denizens of “Trenton” to the average voter in every town and neighborhood across New Jersey – knows this. The editorial board suggesting otherwise is an insult to its readers.

The editorial board never once noticed that the legislation being pushed by “the chair of OUR Senate education committee” – Senator Vin Gopal – is in answer to a problem created by legislation that he earlier co-sponsored. And the editorial purposely obscured the controversy by focusing on the pretty words used in the language of the curriculum standards – instead of the realities of their implementation. The realities that parents saw first-hand and reacted to.

And the editorial board never noted the lack of transparency in the way Gopal’s “transparency” legislation was rolled out. In secret. In order to suppress public comment and – especially – comments from parents. He was shocked and angry when they showed up anyway.

Throughout the editorial, the Star-Ledger folks employ language in the way Pol Pot once did. It is the language in which the reality is the opposite of the words used to describe it. The word used is “transparency” but what it describes is opaque and unclear. The Star-Ledger, in common with government news organs throughout the world, promotes the literal view as opposed to the reality. It’s not a “death camp” – it is an “employment retraining center”.

Gopal lied when he claimed that the new curriculum has “nothing to do with ideology.” It is all about ideology, which is defined as “a system of ideas and ideals.” Gopal’s political allies at interest groups like Garden State Equality push their worldview, their “system of ideas and ideals.” Some would argue that aspects of it, such as the faith-based assertion that biological science can be altered by the exercise of individual will, give it a religious orientation.

There is nothing “wrong” in holding such a view, any more than it is to hold the view that water can be turned to wine or wine to blood. It is the imposition of these views that is at issue. The demand that we all have the same views and that it is the job of government to inculcate such views to all children – regardless of what their parents and taxpayers think about it. Gopal should stop lying about it. Talk about it, don’t lie about it.

But politicians like Vin Gopal never stop lying. It is their go-to drug of choice. And everybody knows this about them. And the media won’t cover that up. They can try, but they won’t.

As liars go, Vin Gopal is a politician.

Sen. Gopal proposes new bill to undo the curriculum law he co-sponsored.

By Rev. Greg Quinlan

Are Phil Murphy and the Democrat Party grooming your children?
 
The Center for Garden State Families continues to be inundated with calls from parents and concerned teachers from all over the state about the extreme comprehensive sex education materials being mandated in New Jersey government schools.
 
Since the beginning of the Murphy administration, there has been a move within government agencies and the New Jersey Legislature to change the culture in New Jersey. That culture includes grooming your children.
 
You may have heard of the term “grooming.” We are not referring to grooming your hair or how you style your clothing. According to the website Out of the Fog, “Grooming is an insidious predatory tactic, utilized by abusers. Grooming is practiced by Narcissists, Antisocial predators, con-artists and sexual aggressors, who target and manipulate vulnerable people for exploitation. Child grooming is the deliberate act of establishing an emotional bond with a child, to lower the child's resistance.”
 
Every citizen of the state has an obligation to guard and protect the most vulnerable among us. This is especially true of our children. The medical Dictionary defines child grooming as, “The constellation of psychological manipulations and actions taken by a predatory adult, meant to reduce a child’s fears and inhibitions, as a prelude to sexual abuse or exploitation by the predator or his/her associates.” This thoroughly describes the new comprehensive sex education curricula and education standards devised by Gov. Phil and his wife Tammy Murphy.
 
These Department of Education standards as developed will clearly desensitize and sexualize children. Parents are asking:  Why is it necessary to introduce sexually explicit, graphic sex acts to minor children? Why is it the responsibility of government schools to teach sex acts, with whom to have sex, and the mechanics of sex to any student? Frankly, it is not.
 
While Phil Murphy and the Democrat legislators (with the help of a few woke Republicans) are sexually exploiting our children, education standards and outcomes are plummeting. Post-Covid the damage to children emotionally, mentally, and educationally is a train wreck. But the Murphy Administration is not addressing helping children heal from the lockdowns and recover two years of lost diminished education. According to a research article that appeared in PNAS, “Learning loss due to school closures during the Covid 19 pandemic”, the preliminary indications are that the lockdown in the short-term did in fact contribute to learning loss. The study did indicate that the suspension of face-to-face instruction in schools during the Covid 19 pandemic has led to concerns and visible consequences to students learning. The Center for Garden State Families has observed in multiple school board meetings that parents have testified to the learning loss and significant psychological, emotional and education deficits in their children since the pandemic. The overwhelming concern from parents, teachers and the community is why hasn’t this obvious learning loss issue been addressed? Why is the Murphy administration and the New Jersey General Assembly focusing on sexually explicit, age-inappropriate and political indoctrinating material including LGBTQIA – XYZ for New Jersey government schools?
 
Within the last week, we’ve seen multiple news articles from national sources as well as inside the Garden State showing the panic of Senator Vin Gopal (Democrat, LD-11), Chairman of the State Senate Education Committee. Sen. Gopal begged Gov. Phil Murphy to suspend the controversial education gender identity standards for 1st and 2nd graders. Gov. Murphy agreed to pause the education standards to six and seven-year-olds until a study could be done to determine their age appropriateness. Let it be clear, this is not a suspension or an erasure of this inappropriate policy which causes children to question their sexuality before they know what sex is. This is a pause, only a pause. Senator Gopal’s panic is from a law that he eagerly co-sponsored and lobbied his fellow legislators to pass prior to his very slim reelection in 2021 while his two Democrat seatmates lost.
 
Now Senator Gopal is scrambling to reverse course and spin away the mess he made. He’s trying to claim that political operatives and politicians are causing parents to be fearful of the curriculum he mandated – so he’s proposing a new bill (“Transparency in Health & Sex Education Curriculum”) that he claims will undo the law he co-sponsored. It was Gopal and his fellow “woke” politicians who teamed up with the political operatives at Garden State Equality that came up with these intrusive curriculum “standards” in the first place. Now he’s embarrassed and afraid so he’s running away and blaming everybody but the face in the mirror.
 
The Center for Garden State Families opposes ALL of the new 2020 Comprehensive Sex Education Standards and the advancement and normalization of the developmental gender identity disorders of LGBTQ. The science is clear, “There are no replicated scientific studies supporting any specific biologic etiology for homosexuality.” American Psychiatric Association. Large-scale GWAS reveals insights to the genetic architecture of same sex-behavior concluded “There is no single gay gene.” Since the real replicated scientific research concludes that homosexuality is not genetic, why are we as a society grooming children to accept the fallacy of alternate sexual identities?

Dr. Michelle Cretella, a pediatrician and executive director of The American College of Pediatricians explains how leftist activist groups infiltrate schools, libraries, and even medical societies with transgender propaganda targeted at children.

She then explains the irreversible sterilization and long-term medical risks that can come from puberty blockers and gender reassignment surgery.

Murphy tries to wiggle out but his June 2020 Resolution is crystal clear

By Rubashov

Governor Phil Murphy is a desperate man. He’s losing the support of his own party. Yesterday, a prominent Democrat Party Senator – the Chairman of the Senate Education Committee, no less – walked away from Murphy’s radicalism and called for a halt to proselytizing age-inappropriate sex acts to school children.

That Democrat, Chairman Vin Gopal, did so after he was lied to by the Murphy administration. Senator Gopal (D-11) related the lie told him in a Facebook post yesterday:

In response to multiple articles relating to curriculum education in our schools, I have read through the 66 pages of the Department of Education Guidelines '2020 New Jersey Student Learning Standards - Comprehensive Health and Physical Education' as well have spoken in detail with New Jersey Acting Commissioner of Education Angelica Allen-McMillan. Here is what I have learned:

…According to the Department of Education Commissioner, these guidelines are not being mandated - they are recommended. It is up to a local board of education to use them if they want but they don't have to.

You can read the full post here:

https://www.facebook.com/100003265460331/posts/4911458728972927/?d=n

In a series of statements, Governor Murphy and his political allies at the NJEA and such, lied about where these standards came from and the nature of their enforcement. Unfortunately for them, the record is clear and is easily found on a state website.

After extensive lobbying by activists – including Governor Phil Murphy's wife, Tammy – the New Jersey State Board of Education, in a split vote taken in 2020, adopted new “Comprehensive Health and Physical Education 2.1 Personal and Mental Health by the End of Grade 5” learning standards. The New Jersey Department of Education instructed local boards of education to consider this new curriculum a mandate for the 2021-2022 school year.

The Minutes of the June 3, 2020, meeting of the New Jersey State Board of Education are crystal clear about this:

Resolved, the State Board of Education reaffirms its commitment to ensuring the Standards both set expectations for and meet the needs of New Jersey’s students and by adoption of this resolution hereby directs school districts to integrate the New Jersey Student Learning Standards – Visual and Performing Arts, Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, Computer Science and Design Thinking, World Languages, and Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills in kindergarten through grade 12; and be it further

Resolved, the State Board of Education hereby directs that the revised New Jersey Student Learning Standards – Visual and Performing Arts, Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Science, Social Studies, Computer Science and Design Thinking, World Languages, and Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills will serve as standards of quality for public school students in kindergarten through grade 12 programs in New Jersey; and be it further

Resolved, district boards of education shall fully comply with this resolution and shall implement the revised New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Science, Visual and Performing Arts, World Languages, and Career Readiness, Life Literacies, and Key Skills by September 2021 and Comprehensive Health and Physical Education, Social Studies, and Computer Science and Design Thinking by September 2022, align their curricula with the standards, and ensure students learn and are assessed as required by federal law; and be it further

The entire Minutes of the June 3, 2020, Meeting can be accessed here:

www.nj.gov/education/sboe/meetings/minutes/2020/June%203,%202020.pdf

…district boards of education shall fully comply with this resolution and shall implement the revised New Jersey Student Learning Standards… by September 2021 and… by September 2022, align their curricula with the standards…

With all due respect, Governor, this kind of screws your bullshit all to hell.

...that goes for you too, Mayor Sean Spiller, Democrat Party politician, feed bag to numerous political consultants, partisan hack, and (oh, yes) President of the NJEA.

Governor, it's time to take responsibility. Listen to parents and taxpayers. Do the right thing.

Make the word “democracy” actually mean something.