The Queering of the American Child Quotes

“In summary, Culturally Relevant Teaching claims that the dominant culture uses schools to sustain and reproduce itself. The goal of the Culturally Relevant Teacher is to tailor her methods and practices to identify and deconstruct this dominant culture. She must determine how the dominant culture(s) marginalizes other cultures—other ways of reading, writing, doing math, practicing science, behaving, and “knowing the truth”—in her classroom. Likewise, the goal of the Culturally Relevant Teacher is to help students deconstruct their own culture(s) and determine how they specifically are oppressed by the dominant culture(s), or how their culture(s) oppress the marginalized culture(s). After modeling this deconstruction, the Culturally Relevant Teacher’s mission is to empower and inspire her students to change the dominant culture through social justice activism. Her job is to push her students to develop critical consciousness.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Critical Theory is a playbook for Marxist political activism. The goal of Critical Theory is to relentlessly criticize a society’s institutions and culture, demanding that those institutions give in to Marxist demands. Marxists practice Critical Theory to capture institutions and then use those institutions to generate cultural revolution.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Theory’s most influential contributors were all Marxist in orientation. Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler inherited the core concepts developed by Marxists in the first half of the 20th century and applied them specifically to studying sex, gender, and sexuality. They used Marxist theology as a launchpad for their social critiques and, in so doing, created the new flavor of Marxism that we are all dealing with today—Queer Marxism.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Marxism argues that the cycle of Man makes society and society makes Man eventually ends when Man fully realizes his creative and social nature. At that point, the State is no longer necessary because Man has realized his full humanity. The State—the divine savior—sacrifices itself and withers away. Viola! Communism. That is, the “real Communism” that has never been tried. The spoiler is that it will never be tried because it is a religious artifact of a theology based on impossible circular logic.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“In the Judeo-Christian tradition, Adam and Eve disobeyed God and ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the Garden of Eden. Their actions flung them into a world filled with sin, misery, and death. In the theology of Marxism, Man ate from the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in nature and learned that he could own private property and upon that ownership divide his labor, which alienates him from himself as a creative and social species. In his fallen form, estranged from his species-being (his humanity), he finds himself in a society stratified into classes, which leads to conflict, exploitation, misery, and oppression. To re-enter (and, in fact, re-create) the kingdom of God—Man’s kingdom on Earth—he must establish a communist society by abolishing private property, which is nothing more than materialized “human self-estrangement.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“In the terminology of gnostic cults, “socialism” is the hidden self-knowledge, or gnosis, that enables the path toward salvation.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“socialist. In the terminology of gnostic cults, “socialism” is the hidden self-knowledge, or gnosis, that enables the path toward salvation.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Simone de Beauvoir, Michel Foucault, and Judith Butler didn’t develop their theories of sex, gender, and sexuality from scratch. Each of these thinkers shares a common philosophical starting point—a framework that they mapped their ideas about sex, gender, and sexuality onto. If Queer Theory is a vehicle for cultural and personal revolution, it runs on the engine of Marxism. In fact, Queer Theory is Queer Marxism. Queer Theory cannot be understood without peeking under the hood, revealing the Marxist mechanics that give it life.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Activists are narcissists who want the world to bend to their will, and they think that anything that tells them “No” must be destroyed.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Theory is a dangerous, destructive cult religion.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Theory claims that society brainwashes men and women into believing they must participate in heterosexual relationships and brainwashes gays and lesbians into “passing” as straight by living normal lives.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Theory defines another ideology called “homonormativity,” which doesn’t mean what it sounds like it means. “Homonormativity” is an ideology that brainwashes people—especially homosexual people—to believe being gay or lesbian is or can be normal, as opposed to intrinsically radical. It convinces people—especially homosexual people—to believe gay and lesbian people should be accepted as a normal variation of human sexuality and even to “pass” by dressing and living their lives in ways Queer Activists deem to be “coded as” “normal,” what might be described paradoxically as “the straight people of gay people.” Queer Activists believe being gay or lesbian should be a front of radical potential and Queer Activism, not just another normal variation of human experience, and so they believe the adoption of “homonormativity” further oppresses “queer” people by normalizing homosexuality.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“The goal of Queer Theory is to use political activism to make people conscious of the “prison” society locks us all into, thereby making people conscious of the prison they have constructed for themselves. This queer consciousness is the state of being awake to the “truth” of Queer Theory. In developing a queer consciousness, one becomes a radical activist who uses Queer Theory as the lens through which they view all of society. Queer Theory informs how those with queer consciousness think and act in the world. Queer consciousness inspires one to view society as a prison they must dismantle and break free from to free their soul. In short, Queer Theory is a vehicle for a complete and perpetual cultural and personal revolution.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Theory is a radical ideology that uses activism (queering) to convince people that nothing is normal or natural. It specializes in convincing people that sex, gender, and sexuality are social (political) constructs—fabrications invented and sold as “the truth” by dominant classes—but those categories are not limiting factors. Queer Theory’s activity is to deconstruct the very concept of normalcy.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“the goal of Queer Theory is to break the brainwashing program so you can free yourself from yourself (as society allegedly demands you to be). The goal is to break off the societal chains on your soul so you can realize who you really are “on the inside.” To do this, you start queering society, breaking all traditions, rules, and norms. Then, free from the constraints of an illegitimate order, you become queer.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Cognitive dissonance is a cult’s go-to method for isolating cult members and potential initiates from their friends and families.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Activists isolate, punish, and exclude anyone who contradicts cult doctrine, ritual, or practice.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Theory demands total submission and obedience.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Agender Pride Day,” “International Asexuality Day,” “Bisexual Awareness Week,” “Genderfluid Visibility Week,” “Drag Day,” “Intersex Day of Remembrance,” “Non-Binary People’s Day,” “Trans Awareness Month,” “Pansexual & Panromantic Awareness Day,” and “Pride Month” all mark our calendars with cult celebrations.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“The cult distinguishes between in-group and out-group by using “preferred pronouns,” complex jargon, and code words in greeting and writing.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Theory is not merely academic; it is full of religious rituals and observances.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Activists threaten a loss of salvation anytime a cult member or initiate steps out of line.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“For them, the cult is their salvation.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Many cult members end up emotionally groomed into thinking they cannot live without the cult.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“The messaging relentlessly externalizes the shame and alienation it creates in its victims by pointing at the “oppressive” society and blaming normal people and normalcy itself for causing those feelings.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Peer pressure, guilt-tripping, gaslighting, and the constant threat of punishment keep the cult in check, on message, and to the task.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Once in the cult, Queer Activists use abusive techniques to condition cult attitudes, beliefs, and behaviors.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Activists offer them solutions to resolve all of their confusion, alienation, loneliness, and pain, an affirming social environment, and something to do that feels meaningful and productive.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“The cult preys on the confused, vulnerable, and disenfranchised with a siren’s call of total affirmation. Initiates in the outer school feel euphoric when they find the cult—a feeling that is typical of stepping into any cult, at least initially.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids

“Queer Activists welcome recruits into a “safe” and “inclusive” environment where they feel like they are the most important people in the world and in which they are protected from ideas that might challenge cult doctrine, something experts in cult psychology call milieu control.”
― Logan Lancing, The Queering of the American Child: How a New School Religious Cult Poisons the Minds and Bodies of Normal Kids