Murphy Signs Bill Mandating Transgender Identity Lessons for Kindergarteners

 See below  letter from HaRav Shach ZTL How these laws have a effect on Klal Yisrael

On Monday NJ Gov. Phil Murphy signed bill into law  (A-4454) to require New Jersey public school districts to incorporate instruction on diversity and inclusion into an appropriate place in the curriculum of students in kindergarten through twelfth grades  Bill A4454 is a Toaiva propaganda bill that is packaged as "Education" legislation. It would escalate the existing mandate to teach Public School children Toaiva propaganda - starting from Kindergarten r"l.  The bill says the lessons will highlight and promote diversity, including economic diversity, equity, inclusion, tolerance and belonging in connection with gender and ...  orientation, race and ethnicity, disabilities and religious tolerance. (See more Here on the assembly bill signed in January)

Conservatives groups republicans and family groups have strongly spoken out against this bill  "These bills are not about anti-bullying or anti-harassment policies, but instead they impose a .. belief system upon very young students that violates their religious beliefs. Parents have the constitutional right to direct the moral upbringing of their children."

 Republican Senator Mike Doherty, before voting against the bill, stated, “The idea that we’re going to expose four and five year old’s to some of these teachings... You’re going to destroy these children. The

idea that we’re going to expose innocent children to these concepts. We were [once] proud about what brought us together as American citizens. This bill is highlighting and exacerbating our differences. These folks have an agenda. We’re going to make people of religious faith second class citizens. We need to bring people together. I vote no.”

The original bill was approved by the Assembly on Oct. 29, 2020. It only mandated  gender identity diversity lessons in 9th-12th grade. However, the Senate approved an amended version on Dec. 17, 2020. Their amendment required these lessons beginning in kindergarten with 5 year olds.

Legislators spoke out against it – “These topics are being forced upon students to affirm and adopt these lifestyles, regardless of their individual religious beliefs. This is a very sensitive issue which should be addressed by parents and not schools, which is why we will continue to vote ‘no’ against this bill.” Senator Jim Holzapfel and Assemblymen Greg McGuckin and John Catalano, District 10.

Bob Singer also spoke out against the bill

(Updated)Letter  from Rav Lazer  Shach zatzal printed in שמושה של תורה - משלחנו של רבינו a sefer every liberal law passed in America will find its way to eretz Yisrael