1. Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador asks SCOTUS to intervene in Vulnerable Child Protection Act case
With the passage of the Vulnerable Child Protection Act last year, Idaho became the tenth state to protect gender-confused children from gender dysphoria.
Things took a dark turn a couple months back when an activist judge blocked enforcement of the law. But don’t give up hope yet: Idaho Attorney General Raul Labrador has asked the US Supreme Court to intervene by allowing the law to take effect while the court case continues to play out.
In a press release, Labrador shared the importance of this law, saying that:
“Those suffering gender dysphoria deserve love, support, and medical care rooted in biological reality. Denying the basic truth that boys and girls are biologically different hurts our kids. No one has the right to harm children, and, thankfully, we as the state have the power—and duty—to protect them.”
Thanks, Attorney General Labrador! Let’s be praying that the Supreme Court takes advantage of this opportunity by making clear that states have the constitutional prerogative to protect children.
2. School vaccine exemption bill that would protect parental rights passes Idaho House
Earlier this week, Idaho Family Policy Center testified for House Bill 438 – sponsored by Rep. Dori Healey (R-Boise) – which would require schools to give to parents more information regarding student immunization exemptions.
Our support received coverage by Laura Guido of the Idaho Press, who wrote:
Only one person testified on the bill. Grace Howat of the Idaho Family Policy Center, which is a Christian ministry that promotes “God-honoring public policy,” spoke in support of HB 438.
She said many parents don’t realize that Idaho allows children to be opted out of these requirements. “Parents are responsible for raising their children, not the state,” Howat said.
On Thursday, the bill passed the House with a 58-10 vote, and will now move to the Senate Health and Welfare Committee for consideration.
3. Conservative Idaho legislators fight back against revenge porn generated by artificial intelligence
Bad actors now use artificial intelligence programs to create pictures and videos portraying real people performing exploitative sexual acts.
Unfortunately, this is not a rare phenomenon—and it’s happening already in Idaho. According to Sensity AI – a company that specializes in deepfake detection – nonconsensual pornography comprises between 90 and 95% of all artificial intelligence-created ‘deepfake’ videos.
Recognizing these dangers, Representatives Julianne Young (R-Rexburg) and John Gannon (D-Boise) introduced House Bill 575, which would criminalize the distribution of explicit synthetic media portraying an identifiable person.
Our policy assistant, Grace Howat, testified in favor of the bill, telling the committee:
“This computer-generated pornography exploits real people with real lives, real jobs, and real families. That’s why this legislation is so important—it closes that loophole, ensuring that bad actors are held accountable if they take advantage of new technological capabilities to create sexually exploitative material.”
No one is safe from this insidious synthetic media—and it’s time for the legislature to end this exploitative trend before it becomes more pervasive and destroys more lives!
One Response
Raul, its been a few years since we talked. I would love to see a bill stating that any child in school under the age 18 will not be subjected to sexual damaging material anywhere in the school system or on the school grounds. As for the public libraries, the public library need an area that one must be 18 years old to go into that area that has exploitative sexual materials. I hope to run for Sheriff in Bonner County and would gladly enforce these laws to protect our children from this damaging material.