Shutting Down School Book Challenges

American Thinker ^ | 17 Jun, 2023 | Amy Contrada

[MtnClimber]

The Biden regime has devised a deceitful scheme to shut down citizen efforts to remove schoolbooks containing LGBT themes, obscenity, or explicit sexuality. How do they plan to accomplish this?

The Department of Education’s (DoE) Office of Civil Rights is now monitoring book challenges across the country for “discriminatory” actions, specifically related to books with any “LGBTQI+” content.

But here’s the problem with their plan: There is no federal law banning discrimination based on sexual orientation, gender identity, transgender identity, queer identity, intersex identity, or plus identity. So, there is no solid basis for the DoE’s intervention in what should, in any case, be a local issue.

Recall that the Democrats were never able to pass their federal “Equality Act” which would have protected “sexual orientation,” “gender identity,” and “LGBTQ” identities (all left undefined) from discrimination. So, illegitimate decrees via executive order, bureaucratic memos, and agency regulations are used to stand in for law under the Democrat regime. Will they get away this legal sleight-of-hand?

Existing discrimination law clearly DoEs not “protect LGBTQI+ rights.” So the Democrats somehow needed to reinterpret these:

Civil Rights Act of 1964 which includes

– Title VI re: federal funding

– Title VII re: employment

Title IX (1972) re: sex discrimination in education

SNIP

In 2022, the DoE began trial runs on shutting down book challenges in schools using their more inclusive definition of “sex.” In December, it began an investigation of the Gransbury, Texas school district which had removed sexually explicit or vulgar books from its schools. Of eight removed, only two had “LGBTQ themes.” But that was enough to call in the feds!

[MtnClimber]

[BobL]

“The Biden regime has devised a deceitful scheme to shut down citizen efforts to remove schoolbooks containing LGBT themes, obscenity, or explicit sexuality.”

Take that, Putin!!!! We don’t put up with your outdated mores on human sexuality!

[ConservativeInPA]

there is no solid basis for the DoE’s intervention

There’s no solid basis in ANYTHING Ed does. Period. Here’s the pecking order. Those that do ( normal people). Those that can’t do (teachers). Those that can’t teach (Scumbag lazy ass piece of chit enemies to America government employees).

[beancounter13]

As I recall, the Department of Education was one of the three that Rick Perry wanted to eliminate as part of his 2012 campaign. Too bad he was ridiculed for having a brain freeze during a debate.

Also sad that Trump didn’t pick up on Perry’s ideas when he was in office.

[alloysteel]

Lack of a solid basis has NEVER been a limitation on just about anything the Joe Stolen/”Que mala” Harris regime has wanted to institute. Apparently, an Executive Order is the controlling legal authority, even the US Congress or the US Supreme Court are largely bypassed in their desperate lunge toward the command-and-control governing power they wish to establish.

But the current regime now occupying the White Hut shall never reap any of the benefits they are sowing for themselves.

[antidemoncrat]

This Republic is suffering from terminal DEI/ESG Cancer.

[Trumpisourlastchance]

There is a Satanist regime in DC.

[antidemoncrat]

“The Biden regime has devised a deceitful scheme:

Everything the Biden regime has devised is a deceitful scheme

There, fixed it

[Albion Wilde]

Bump