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Use SB 856 (2015) to protect Oregon children from harmful OHA and ODE agendas

Christine Bridgens_thb [1]

by Chris Bridgens

Oregon Senate Bill 856 (2015) should be used to expose and stop the abusive, unsafe and unhealthy cultural agenda promoted and supported by the Oregon Health Authority and Oregon Department of Education (ODE)

After years of ‘blurring the lines’ between Oregon education and Oregon health care, the Oregon Health Authority (OHA), partnering with the Oregon Department of Education (ODE), has been incrementally activating an adult cultural agenda of sexually grooming and normalizing no-boundaries sexual behavior for youth.

This is being perpetrated through School Based Health Centers, Comprehensive Sexuality Education and through the recently canceled [2] annual Adolescent Sexuality Conference in Seaside, Oregon.

With several years of Oregon legislation paving the way, there is now great concern that this has led to an attempt to silence parents and to what can arguably be characterized as child endangerment or child abuse.

Senate Bill 856 (2015) [3] was passed as an attempt to train school employees and even students K-12, to recognize signs of sexual abuse or abusive behavior in order to prevent such abuse. This is a noble attempt, but there is concern that it will fall under the purview of the same OHA and ODE ‘specialists’ who supported or sponsored much of what has been exposed as very objectionable, age inappropriate, developmentally inappropriate, unhealthy and unsafe for our children.

ODE’s current “Sexual Health & School Health Specialist”, Ely Sanders (replacing Brad Victor) speaks in support of, and has participated in the inclusion of the adult cultural, sexuality agenda in our Oregon schools—an agenda which can put our children at serious risk to their health, mental health and their safety.

The following are programs, curriculum, agencies or legislation which originated and were ‘sold’ under the premise that they would promote ‘healthy choices’ for youth, or would serve to prevent child (sexual) abuse:

The above examples of what were approved and promoted by the OHA and ODE as programs, curriculum, agencies or laws/policies which would be in the best interest of the health and safety of our children, have instead put children at risk. Our children cannot ‘unsee’ or ‘unhear’ what the OHA and the ODE have allowed and promoted in our schools.

Senate Bill 856 should first serve to expose these state-supported entities for the reckless endangerment of children which they are. SB 856 should not be placed within the jurisdiction of the OHA and/or the ODE, or the bill’s noble intention will be lost, and it will become another stepping stone for the adult cultural agenda of the Oregon Health Authority and the Oregon Dept. of Education.

The sponsors of this bill, Representative Mike McLane and Senator Tim Knopp, may have had good intentions, but they should be contacted to let them know of these important concerns in hopes that this bill can be used to protect children, not endanger them further.

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