Above: Sen. Payton (left) and Family Council staff member Luke McCoy (right) address the Senate Judiciary Committee in support of S.B. 270.
On Monday the Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill addressing sexual indecency with a minor in public changing areas.
S.B. 270 by Sen. John Payton (R – Wilburn) and Rep. Cindy Crawford (R – Fort Smith) clarifies that an adult commits sexual indecency if the adult enters and remains in a changing area where a child of the opposite sex is present.
It’s a good bill that will help protect children in Arkansas, and Family Council is pleased to be able to work with lawmakers to support this measure.
S.B. 270 now goes to the entire Senate for consideration.
Above: Sen. Gary Stubblefield presents S.B. 43 in the Arkansas Senate. On Friday the governor signed S.B. 43 into law as Act 131 of 2023.
On Friday Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders signed a good law that will protect children in Arkansas from adult performances.
Act 131 of 2023 by Sen. Gary Stubblefield (R – Branch) and Rep. Mary Bentley (R – Perryville) prohibits adult-oriented performances on public property, with public funding, or in view of minors.
The measure defines “adult-oriented performance” as a sexual performance that includes nudity, sexual activities, or exposure of specific body parts.
The new law also contains language about exposure of prosthetic private parts to protect children from explicit drag performances.
Family Council was pleased to work with Sen. Stubblefield, Rep. Bentley, and our friends in the Arkansas Legislature to support the passage of this law.
We have written repeatedly over the past few years about how public schools, colleges, and libraries in Arkansas have scheduled inappropriate drag performances — including performances intended for children. This measure will help address that problem.
We want to thank every member of the General Assembly who supported this good law, and we want to thank the governor for signing Act 131 into law.
Act 131 will help protect children adult performances, and it will ensure that public property and public tax dollars are not used for these performances.
That’s something to celebrate.
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Many critics of transgender ideology today argue that the “T” in the LGBTQ acronym doesn’t fit with the other letters. J.K. Rowling, for example, who often makes the news for opposing transgender ideology, has argued that it isn’t just pitted against women, it’s also pitted against the same-sex attracted.
The conflict in the acronym is real. A significant part of the transgender movement is about men taking the place of women and teaching girls that they are born wrong, neither of which sits well with “the L’s.” And many “G’s” believe that many kids who are “born gay” are instead being treated as if they’re trans.
But the “L,” “G,” and “T” all have one thing in common: fundamentally rejecting the human body. In their view, biological sex and sexual complementarity are accidental—not essential—to who we are.
In fact, much of our culture is about rejecting the body: abortion, “medical aid in dying,” transhumanism. Part of Christian witness today is that our bodies, though broken, are good gifts from God.
Copyright 2025 by the Colson Center for Christian Worldview. Reprinted from BreakPoint.org with permission.
