Catholic Youth Take to the Streets to Defend Children’s Innocence Against LGBT Agenda in Irish Schools

By Joseph Gensens

From August 12 to19, young members and volunteers of Irish Society for Christian Civilisation (ISFCC) took to the streets to defend the children. A caravan of twenty young men traveling around the country campaigned against the dangers of the Social, Personal and Health Education (SPHE) curriculum now taught in Irish schools.

The curriculum promotes radical sex education to children as young as six years old. This includes learning about homosexuality and transgenderism, promoting gender fluid notions of the family, and teaching that the conjugal act is for pleasure.

The goal of this caravan: Raise awareness of the evils in SPHE by handing out thousands of flyers and gathering signatures for a petition calling on the education minister to remove the sexually perverse elements from the curriculum.

“Sign the Petition to Keep Our Children Free!”

Volunteers campaigned in the most prominent places across Ireland, including Cork, Dublin, Kilkenny, Limerick, and Tipperary. Smaller towns such as Cobh, Adare, and Fermoy were also included. A band of bagpipers and drummers would play music to attract people’s attention, while others proclaim slogans calling on the Irish public to protect children’s innocence. These catchphrases included: “The SPHE curriculum promotes LGBT, Sign the petition to keep our children free!” and “An innocent child is a happy child!” Other slogans denounced the program’s immoral agenda: “If Ireland fails to protect her children, Ireland fails to protect her future!” and “Sin and vice a moral cancer, purity is the only answer!”

In Dublin, Locals Observe “They’re Everywhere”

The caravanners campaigned all across Dublin city for several days, starting in front of the Spire on O’Connell Street. They seemed to be everywhere at the same time.

One incident illustrates this impression well. The volunteers split up to cover Dublin’s two main train stations, Heuston and Connolly.  At Connolly Station, two liberal women got off the bus with leaflets in hand. They had just been to Heuston Station and, upon seeing more members, exclaimed in despair: “They’re everywhere!”

A bus driver asked a volunteer to come on the bus, where he signed the petition, and said he has two young daughters in the school system, adding that “this wokeness is destroying our country.”

Volunteers Bring Message to People’s Doors With House-to-House Campaigns

This year’s caravan did something different by sending volunteers to housing estates. The band played bagpipes and drums, walking through the neighborhoods, while other volunteers knocked on people’s doors offering leaflets and asking people to sign the petitions.

Whole families would come outdoors to hear the TFP band and listen to the campaign’s message. These campaigns really woke up neighbourhoods, as many people enthusiastically applauded the music, accepting the leaflets, and signing petitions.

One woman signed the petition and told a volunteer, “I have an autistic son in school, and I told them not to teach him any of this. I used to be a liberal, but now I’m against all that.”

Another woman told the volunteers they were doing excellent work. She said she had taken her daughter out of school because of the curriculum, adding that “children should grow up with innocence”.

A few people were not so receptive. One man in a Dublin housing estate started yelling at the volunteers. He demanded to see sources showing how SPHE is promoting the LGBT agenda. When shown the sources in the leaflet, he refused to listen and responded with insults.

Another woman told volunteers that she understood what transgenderism does and how destructive it is. However, she had no problem with it being promoted to young children.

Three Takeaways from This Year’s Caravan

This year’s caravan to defend the innocence of children in Irish schools was very successful, thanks be to God.

There were three takeaways from this caravan.

First, it was the largest caravan so far with 20 volunteers in three different vehicles. This allowed the caravan to campaign in two different parts of a city at the same time.

Second, this issue was very effective in galvanizing public opinion against the perversion promoted by the LGBT movement. Even some liberal people had an issue with transgenderism being promoted to young children. The volunteers distributed over 12,000 leaflets and collected over 700 signatures.

Third, the caravan campaigned in housing estates for the first time. Volunteers brought their message to people’s doors. This was very successful. In one housing estate alone, volunteers gathered 135 handwritten petitions from concerned locals.

With God and Our Lady’s help, the battle to defend the innocence of children will continue. Irish youth will affirm the timeless principles of tradition, family, and property.