I watched the entire video. While I think it's valid to discuss the appropriate age for sex education, this guy's tone, substance, and delivery all scream demagoguery and religious zeal. I really hope someone more reasonable and not religiously extremist discussed that same book afterward, because I don't think it's appropriate for 10-year-olds to have access to drawings and detailed descriptions of sexual acts at a school library. About this video, though:
- The first thing he did was open the book to nude drawings and try to argue that they were "pornographic" just because they were nude. That's a non sequitur: it's perfectly possible for nudity to be presented in a non-sexual manner, and this is done in multiple countries. Nudity can be artistic, illustrative (as in a biology book), or simply activity-based (e.g., when at the beach or in a sauna). So this pastor is trying to normalize his own hung-up about nudity as if it were obligatory for everyone else to share his views.
- The way he's speaking, by yelling and trying to rouse the attendance, is not fitting for anyone who is supposedly trying to present a reasonable case for a major decision: taking a book out of a school library in a constitutionally secular country. It doesn't matter what he believes the Bible says, and his "God > Gov" hoodie essentially sums up the theocratic mindset that some fundamentalists exhibit when they want to impose their worldview on others in a public institution such as a school.
I almost cringed when he said, "I get my talking points from the B-I-B-L-E" as if that were supposed to grant him more authority. So what? Are other parents and their children supposed to have their lives and education altered by talking points from the Bible? It's that entitled, theocratic mindset on display again.
- It was also another non sequitur when he mentioned DEI, a set of initiatives and policies that have nothing to do with the book to which he was objecting. It almost feels like he was just cramming ideological and emotional buzzwords into his three-minute speech.
For all of the talk about "gender ideology," it seems to me that some of the most conspicuous examples of gender ideology come from theocratically minded extremists whose gender ideology is rooted in rigid traditionalism, dogma, and unscientific stereotypes.