Are Secular History Text Books Trustworthy? Part 3
Part 3—From Wrong to Right: Morality, Family, and the LGBTQ+ Agenda
At first glance, it would seem strange that the LGBTQ+ agenda would be pushed to the forefront of the history classroom. However, as George Orwell famously stated in 1984, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”12 By controlling classroom discussion and emphasizing LGBTQ+, something that would have been avoided 50 years ago, radical liberals can cement these topics as fundamentally important in students’ minds, helping to rewrite the history of America.
In By the People: Debating American Government, it is implied that the gay community had been cruelly oppressed throughout American history, emphasizing that until the Stonewall Riots, the gay community “submitted” to law enforcement raids and mistreatment. Throughout the “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” section, this textbook highlights that while there are freedoms the LGBTQ+ agenda now enjoys, these individuals “still face formidable barriers to full civil rights—in employment, housing, education, and public accommodations.”13 Not only is this statement blatantly false, but it also presents institutions of government, law enforcement, and the capitalist economy as evil forces keeping a morally divergent group of people oppressed.
imilarly, The American Pageant: A History of the American People ignores God’s standards of sexual purity and instead refers negatively to “pure-minded Americans” who “sternly resisted these affronts to their moral principles.” The textbook specifically points out that Anthony Comstock, the US Postal Inspector who defended Christian morality, had a proud claim “that he had driven at least fifteen people to suicide.”14 These suicides were tragic, and Comstock does not demonstrate Christian morality in having taken part and pride in them, but the textbook’s agenda is to paint all conservative Christians as prudes who lack compassion and understanding of how the world should be. The biblical family is also treated as nonessential rather than as a God-ordained societal necessity for human flourishing. As American Pageant explains,
But if the traditional family was increasingly rare, the family itself remained a bedrock of American society in the early twenty-first century, as viable families now assumed a variety of forms. Children in households led by a single parent, stepparent, or grandparent, as well as children with gay or lesbian parents, encountered a degree of acceptance that would have been unimaginable a generation earlier. . . . The family was not evaporating, but evolving into multiple forms.15
This positive statement about the evolution of family ignores the damaging effects of single-parent homes, the drastic rise in crime, and the collapse of morality and faith in the United States, which is concurrent with the decline of the traditional family unit. Thus, instead of addressing the root causes for the collapse of society as a whole, the text instead merely suggests that our society has moved beyond family, subtly brainwashing students into thinking that the removal of the traditional family unit from society is normal and will have no negative effects upon civilization.
by Cory Von Eiff on January 28, 2026
Featured in Answers in Depth
It's terrible what they teach our kids in these 'so called' schools these days. Pray for them.
At first glance, it would seem strange that the LGBTQ+ agenda would be pushed to the forefront of the history classroom. However, as George Orwell famously stated in 1984, “Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past.”12 By controlling classroom discussion and emphasizing LGBTQ+, something that would have been avoided 50 years ago, radical liberals can cement these topics as fundamentally important in students’ minds, helping to rewrite the history of America.
In By the People: Debating American Government, it is implied that the gay community had been cruelly oppressed throughout American history, emphasizing that until the Stonewall Riots, the gay community “submitted” to law enforcement raids and mistreatment. Throughout the “Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity” section, this textbook highlights that while there are freedoms the LGBTQ+ agenda now enjoys, these individuals “still face formidable barriers to full civil rights—in employment, housing, education, and public accommodations.”13 Not only is this statement blatantly false, but it also presents institutions of government, law enforcement, and the capitalist economy as evil forces keeping a morally divergent group of people oppressed.
imilarly, The American Pageant: A History of the American People ignores God’s standards of sexual purity and instead refers negatively to “pure-minded Americans” who “sternly resisted these affronts to their moral principles.” The textbook specifically points out that Anthony Comstock, the US Postal Inspector who defended Christian morality, had a proud claim “that he had driven at least fifteen people to suicide.”14 These suicides were tragic, and Comstock does not demonstrate Christian morality in having taken part and pride in them, but the textbook’s agenda is to paint all conservative Christians as prudes who lack compassion and understanding of how the world should be. The biblical family is also treated as nonessential rather than as a God-ordained societal necessity for human flourishing. As American Pageant explains,
But if the traditional family was increasingly rare, the family itself remained a bedrock of American society in the early twenty-first century, as viable families now assumed a variety of forms. Children in households led by a single parent, stepparent, or grandparent, as well as children with gay or lesbian parents, encountered a degree of acceptance that would have been unimaginable a generation earlier. . . . The family was not evaporating, but evolving into multiple forms.15
This positive statement about the evolution of family ignores the damaging effects of single-parent homes, the drastic rise in crime, and the collapse of morality and faith in the United States, which is concurrent with the decline of the traditional family unit. Thus, instead of addressing the root causes for the collapse of society as a whole, the text instead merely suggests that our society has moved beyond family, subtly brainwashing students into thinking that the removal of the traditional family unit from society is normal and will have no negative effects upon civilization.
by Cory Von Eiff on January 28, 2026
Featured in Answers in Depth
It's terrible what they teach our kids in these 'so called' schools these days. Pray for them.
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