Brazil's President Jair Bolsonaro recently instructed the Brazilian Ministry of Education to draft a bill that prohibits "gender ideology" in Brazil's public elementary schools. "We are going to unite the people, rescue the family, respect religions and our Judeo-Christian tradition, combat gender ideology and preserve our values," Bolsonaro said.

President Bolsonaro's resolute courageousness to speak up makes one wonder where the prophetic voices in America are. We are referring to those weeping "between the porch and the altar" (Joel 2:17) over the spiritual condition of a nation founded "for the glory of God and advancement of the Christian faith," as it states in the Mayflower Compact.

President Bolsonaro's likely problem with "gender ideology" concerns its glaringly discreditable feature of intolerance for any viewpoint but its own. This intolerance has been driven so far as to incorporate something so unsubstantiated as "gender ideology" into the very foundation of government-run preschool through third-level education. Until this scheme has been exposed and resolved, we should not expect God's favor on public education, according to Dan Smithwick.

The reason why America's godly heritage had to be eliminated from public education becomes clear from the following:

"Reality must be suppressed," writes William S. Lind. "If the ideology has power, it uses its power to undertake this suppression. It forbids writing or speaking certain facts. Its goal is to prevent not only expression of thoughts that contradict what 'must be true,' but thinking such thoughts. In the end, the result is inevitably the concentration camp, the gulag and the grave. read more