Around this time of year, parents are starting to think about their summer vacation plans. Where will they take their children to experience natural wonders, discover their heritage, or learn about their country?
One of the go-to resources is the National Park Service website.
Sadly, parents will find that the National Park Service continues to promote gender ideology and the work of substantially discredited sex researcher Alfred Kinsey.
Elevating Kinsey
A National Park Service article, “Expressions as Diverse as the Landscape: Kinsey Institute, Bloomington, IN,” lauds Kinsey’s work, contending that he “conducted pioneering research to challenge ideas of normativity and discriminatory laws regarding sexual behavior” and that he contributed to a “heterosexual-homosexual rating scale, placing the sexual behavior of individuals along a continuum.”?
In 1948, Alfred Kinsey published “Sexual Behavior in the Human Male.” The infamous tables in the book were drawn from data that was scientifically and morally perverse, involving the molestation of 317 boys, beginning at the age of two months.
According to a colleague, in his experiments, Kinsey would “listen only to pedophiles who were very careful, used stopwatches, knew how to record their thing.”
This is what our National Parks are holding up as deserving of praise and remembrance.
A series highlighting historical LGBTQ+ sites
The Kinsey article is part of a series first released in 2016 by the National Park Service’s Cultural Resources Office of Interpretation and Education entitled, “Finding Our Place: LGB Heritage in the United States” highlighting the history of LGBTQ+ communities.
Each of the 25 articles in the series points to places, like “gayborhoods,” monuments, or buildings, and explains its significance for LGBTQ+ history. While the sites on the list are not to be equated with the Kinsey Institute, the entire project goes beyond the mission of the National Park Service as a federal entity.
That is because the whole series is unapologetically activist. By celebrating “diverse gender expression” or medical treatments performed “based on a patient’s own gender identity,” the National Park Service is encouraging Americans to adopt a form of gender ideology aimed at challenging “ideas of normativity” (like there are only two sexes).
This kind of political activism is a departure from the common sense mandate of the National Park Service to protect and preserve places like Yellowstone National Park and Glacier National Park.
From Native American gender expression to sex-change surgeons
Ultimately, gender ideology subverts the principle “all men are created equal,” which sets bounds to human behavior, to not only make all actions, including the work of Kinsey, acceptable, but falsely consistent with that principle and worthy of celebration. What would America become if that were to happen??
To give a few more examples from the series:
- “Gender and Sexuality in Native America: Many People, Many Meanings” contends that, “Research indicates well over 100 instances of diverse gender expression in Native American tribes at the time of early European contact. The cultural legacy of these people was nearly erased by religious indoctrination and the imposition of laws criminalizing varied sexuality and gender expression.”
- “LGB Activism: The Henry Gerber House, Chicago, IL,” asserts that Henry Gerber, founder of the first gay rights organization in the U.S., “melded his experiences with the German homophile movement with the American ideals expressed in the Declaration of Independence.” The last line of the article notes that, “In 2015, the Henry Gerber House became the nation’s second National Historic Landmark designated for its association with LGB history.”
- The Selling Building (which was added to the National Register in 1991 for its historic and architectural significance) was also home to psychologist J. Allen Gilbert. Dr. Gilbert performed a hysterectomy on his patient, perhaps “the first time in U.S. history that a psychologist supported such a procedure based on the patient’s own gender identity.”
Betraying the mission of the National Park Service
The series of articles, “Finding Our Place: LGB Heritage in the United States” aims to alter the criteria of what makes a historic site significant and worth the preservation of the National Park Service. They distort the history of places like the Kinsey Institute, lauding as progress research of the most contemptible and immoral nature, an endeavor that not only undermines American history but the most fundamental of human sentiments.
None of this is in keeping with the mission of the National Park Service or befitting of the American national character.
