Tue Jul 5, 2022 – 4:16 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – A couple of years back when the LGBT movement was gaining steam, conservatives on Twitter would often jokingly respond to stories of the latest cultural capitulation with the response: “See you in the gulag!” It was a reference to the sinister passion of our cultural elites to re-educate everyone into the new values of the sexual revolution while suppressing expressions of the old, Christian values that once animated the West.
The joke seemed less funny in 2018 when trans activists at the U.K.’s Goldsmiths University made the case that gulags were, actually, “benign places where inmates received education, training, and enjoyed the opportunity to take part in clubs, sports, and theatre groups.” The more than one million people who died in these camps were not mentioned by the trans activists, because you need to break a few eggs to make an omelet, as another gulag fan once said.
We would do well to take this sort of enthusiasm seriously. Re-education camps—usually referred to as “training seminars” with soothing corporate-speak that cannot mask the compulsion behind it—are a tool that the LGBT movement is only too
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