Sometimes, people ask me why I have an alias, and my first answer is that I want to be able to speak my mind without becoming a victim of the secular leftist. What might they do to me? Well, aside from the obvious – threats, vandalism, violence, theft, murder – they might also like to go to my employer and ask to have me fired. And that that actually happens a lot in America.

Here’s an example of it, reported by Newsweek:

California woman says she lost her real estate job after speaking out against a new sex education curriculum at a school board meeting.

Janet Roberson, a mother of three, said she had spoken out at a meeting of the Benicia Unified School District’s board on April 20 to express her concerns about the program of study.

Her employer is Compass, a real estate broker:

Roberson said that after she spoke at the meeting in April, critics launched a campaign to get her fired from real estate broker Compass, according to a video posted on her website.

[…]Roberson said the treasurer of the Progressive Democrats of Benicia also contacted Compass and gave a May 1 deadline for answers to questions about Roberson’s conduct.

“Sure enough, like clockwork, Compass informed me that I could no longer be associated with them by her deadline date,” she said in her video.

“How can it be that in America, a mom who speaks at a school board meeting can be targeted and canceled, losing her livelihood?”

It appears to me as though Compass made their decision based on her personal, political or social beliefs. That’s not a company for Christians and conservatives to do business with.

The Benicia Unified School District doesn’t seem to be open to engaging in dialogue with parents about their programs. They don’t seem to want to offer a platform to parents to speak about the school curriculum. They seem to want to refuse to hear and consider all voices when making decisions about what to teach.

It’s important for Christians to understand that it’s not optional for us to speak our minds, and try to influence people around us. I know so many Christians who consider it a virtue to keep their mouths shut. The trick is to make a difference without letting the intolerant, bigoted fascists of the secular left come after you. Never tell them your real name, where you live, or where you work. Don’t let yourself be photographed. Don’t put photographs of yourself on the Internet. It’s really important to oppose the secular left in a disciplined way.

I keep seeing LIbsOfTikTok in my Twitter feed, sharing videos posted by teachers who are advocating for pushing gender ideology in the classrooms. I used to wonder what was causing all of these teachers to sexualize children who aren’t even old enough to drive a car. It turns out that those teachers are being coached by teacher unions.

Here’s the story from ABC local news:

A new report accuses the two largest teachers unions in the United States of training educators on how to include “gender identity politics” in their curriculums and classroom practices.

The National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) together represent nearly 5 million public school teachers nationwide. In a report published Wednesday by the Defense of Freedom Institute (DFI), the two unions are accused of encouraging teachers to discuss gender identity and sexual orientation with students regardless of parents’ wishes.

The report details a July conference where AFT allegedly “coached its members on how to inject gender identity politics” into classrooms. The conference, titled the Together Educating America’s Children (TEACH) conference, was comprised of sessions on “strategies to improve teaching and learning.”

Two of the sessions included “Affirming LGBTQIA+ Identities in and out of the Classroom” and “The TGNCNB [transgender, gender nonconforming, nonbinary] Inclusive School and Classroom,” according to DFI’s report.

I’ve blogged before about how teacher unions are HUGE supporters of the Democrat party, and they are always getting involved in politics to undermine parental rights. They don’t want children to inherit a worldview from their parents.

The article notes:

At a rally earlier this year, NEA leaders called Florida’s Parental Rights in Education Act “extremist,” according to DFI’s report. The Florida legislation requires, among other things, that teachers in the state refrain from discussing gender identity and sexual orientation with students in third grade and younger.

[…]Last month, NEA issued guidance on placing “inclusive symbols” in classrooms, encouraging teachers to challenge policies prohibiting Pride flags and Black Lives Matter imagery. The guidance followed the union’s inclusion of “Gender Queer” on its summer reading list, a book that has been removed from schools nationwide due to its sexually explicit contents.

When I was a young man, still in high school, I actually wanted to become an English teacher. My Dad was pushing me to go into computer science. So he enrolled me in a university course taught during evenings, by a lesbian woman. That quickly cured me of wanting to become a teacher – English departments were absolute hotbeds of progressive politics, even 25 years ago.

I did some searching around and found that there was no way I was going to be able to work without paying dues to the teacher unions, too. And I knew enough to know that the teacher unions were far left. I just didn’t want to get roped into a situation where my income was being taxed to pay for abortion and LGBT policies. So, I decided not to become a teacher. And that was a great decision.

I was reading an interesting article from J. Warner Wallace last week that he wrote for Townhall. In the article, he said that the real driver behind people turning away from truth, the big questions, religion in general, etc. was because of a desire for autonomy. People have enormous confidence about their desires, believing that following their desires is the surest way to reach happiness. But is it true?

In blue states, people consistently vote for leaders who make them feel good. Voters want to feel good, and they want to look good to other people – virtue signaling. And they are sure that feeling good and looking good will produce good results.

Hawaii is one of the bluest states in the country. There, the people consistently vote for policies that are much more progressive than the policies of those terrible red states. Policies like re-making the power grid to be driven by renewable green energy sources.

Here’s what happened next, as reported by Daily Wire:

Hawaiian Electric is under scrutiny for allegedly slow-walking modernization and repairs of its electrical grid before the fire that ripped through the island of Maui last week.

Hawaiian Electric is Hawaii’s principle electric utility, providing power to roughly 95% of the state. Financial disclosures and reports show the company worried about the state of its electrical grid, and specifically the risk of wildfires, but devoted resources to building out the utility’s green energy network with limited action to mitigate fire risk, according to The Wall Street Journal.

In 2015, the Hawaii State Legislature amended the State’s Renewable Portfolio Standards to establish the nation’s first goal of 100% renewable energy:

The focus on Hawaii’s energy priorities over the past decade has been dominated by its push for green energy. The state enacted a first-in-the-country law in 2015 mandating that Hawaii’s grid be powered by 100% renewable energy by 2045.

In 2021, regulators finished a top-to-bottom restructuring of the regulatory framework to guide that transition, offering Hawaiian Electric large bonuses for finishing green energy projects on time, and threatening the utility with fines if it missed deadlines.

[…]“You have to look at the scope and scale of the transformation within [Hawaiian Electric] that was occurring throughout the system,” Mina Morita, the 2011-2015 chair of the state utilities commission, told WSJ. “While there was concern for wildfire risk, politically the focus was on electricity generation.”

The government, which was elected by the people, mandated that the energy company would make going green their highest priority. Politically, the focus was on global warming alarmism. Not on lowering electricity prices for consumers. And not on protecting taxpayers from wild fires.

I had a quick look on LinkedIn at the resume of the CEO of the energy company, and she had no earned degrees in science, engineering or technology. She has a bachelors degree in accounting. Good degree, but not for the top job in energy production. Why is she the CEO of an energy production company? Will she face consequences for her failure to perform?