Posted on 09/12/2023 5:23:02 PM PDT by Rummyfan
Senator John Kennedy (R-La.) read excerpts from the pornographic children’s books “Genderqueer” and “All Boys aren’t Blue” during a Senate Judiciary hearing Tuesday, prompting a Democrat witness who opposes “book bans” to admit that the words were “disturbing.”
Democrats decried the banning of such books during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing to examine “How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature.” The Democrats’ three witnesses included Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, who crafted legislation in his state to outlaw book bans on pornographic books for children, and Cameron Samuels, a 17-year-old student activist who uses “gender neutral pronouns they/them” and compared those who oppose pornographic books in schools to “the secret police in Germany.”
In his opening statement, Giannoulias declared that “libraries have become targets by a movement that disingenuously claims to pursue freedom, but is instead promoting authoritarianism.” Characterizing objections to the contested LGBTQ children’s books “these radical attacks on our libraries,” the Illinois Sec. of State claimed that the nation’s librarians have been “harassed, threatened and intimidated simply for doing their jobs.”
Republican witness Max Eden Research, a Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, argued that the books in question haven’t actually been “banned,” despite their inappropriate content. “We are talking about books with passages about fisting, butt plugs and rape,” he pointed out.
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Kennedy is so good at this - rubbing their noses in what they’ve done.
The one thing the pink mafia fears the most is that the general public will find out, in detail, what homosexual men do to each other in sex. Most of us don’t have the stomach for it.
The problem is not that perverts have a voice. The problem is that they would prohibit normal people from calling them perverts.
Didn’t they ban conservative/right leaning books from school libraries?
So Huck Finn and Dr.Seuss are ok now?
I suspect Mark Twain would approve of editing out the offending word. Huckleberry Finn is a great work of American literature.
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