Posted on 01/01/2025 2:22:24 AM PST by Morgana
The Louisiana Supreme Court has revived a lawsuit between a middle school librarian and furious parents who accused her of promoting pornography and 'erotic content' to children.
Amanda Jones, the school librarian at Live Oak Middle School, sued the Citizens for a New Louisiana, its leader Michael Lunsford, and parent Ryan Thames for defamation in 2022.
Her lawsuit, seen by DailyMail.com, claimed they publicly accused her of promoting porn and 'erotic contents' to minors by placing 'inappropriate' books in the 'kid's section' of her library.
The controversial books involved in the argument include 'Dating and Sex: A Guide for the 21st Century Teen Boy' by Andrew P. Smiler and 'Let's Talk About It: The Teen's Guide to Sex, Relationships, and Being a Human' by Erika Moen and Matthew Nolan.
The lawsuit was dismissed that same year, but Jones' appeal reached the state supreme court who overruled the judgment on Friday - sending the case back to the court of appeals to reconsider.
'Before all this, I was just a school librarian, but they wanted to silence me, so I thought I would do the exact opposite and become an activist,' Jones told The New York Times.
'What we're seeing now is full-scale attacks on people's characters if they stand up for books. The hate level and the vitriol is unreal to me.'
The ordeal began when Jones spoke out about book bans at the Livingston Parish Library board meeting on July 19, 2022. She immediately faced backlash - and people online started targeting her for defending the literature.
At the meeting, a board member expressed her concerns about books for children and teens that had 'inappropriate' content.
During the public comment section of the meeting, Jones criticized banning books from the library.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
They have given themselves over to the evil one by dwelling on shut, perversions, and abominations. They live eat breathe 8mmorality day and night, and their co Sciences have been so seared that they may never come to a point of repentance, and they will scream and yell at anyone that tries to undermine their “freedom” (code word for “license to commit immorality and outright abominations before the lord”)
Liberty and license are not the same thing at all.
It really should be taken to the Supreme Court with the argument that “IF the content is too immoral to read out loud at a school board meeting or town hall, then no way this side of hell should it be made available to children because that type of i morality leads to child endangerment and intentional contribution to the delinqu3ncy of children by adults- which is a crime!
[[I don’t care if Larry flint won his case. Kids need to be protected from adults who are all for freedom of speech]]
Well said! +100
[[This woman is mentally ill and needs to be in jail]]
Exactly! She is contributing to the delinquency of minors and needs to be arrested! Unfortunately the evil one is protecting her right now, but with enough prayers to God for help in the fight agaisnt the ev8l one, victory can be had
In Florida governor DeSantis put a stop to this BS.
Why the Louisiana governor can’t do the same is beyond my understanding.
Walk into a book store and hand a juvenile a pornographic magazine and see what happens........this is no different and arguably WORSE.
I wish all conservatives states would take a stand like f.orida and desantis has! God is being banned in America because good people in conservatives state legislature stand by and do nothing to combat the evil- th3y have the power to ban crap like the teacher pushed on kids, but they refuse to step in and take a moral stand.
Trump is a breath of fresh air, desantis too for their stances agaisnt immorality, but sadly the rest of the nation’s states are so polluted that evil is beginning to thrive, and God and those who follow him are being attacked “legally” - it should be the other way around though! Evil should be crawling back under the rocks from when it came!
I agree! Convenient stores aren’t even a.llwed to show their porn magazines fully, just the titles, because minors have access to seeing them displayed on the shelves- (that used to be the law, don’t know if it still is thohgh?)
Yet kids can pick up books that are just as exp,icit and perverted in school libraries? Liberals are so full of hypocrisy that it’s coming out their ears!
Remember when Democrats booed Jerusalem as the capital of Israel? 🇮🇱🇮🇱🇮🇱
no i don’t remember that- sheesh- dems are truly despicable-
Democrats boo Jerusalem as Israel’s capital
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t8BwqzzqcDs
Democrat Party platforms honor God?
Homosexuality?
Abortion?
Delusional people
By the way, speaking of Jerusalem and Israel, here’s the first time I ever saw Victoria “Cookies” Nuland
Jerusalem - Victoria Nuland dodges, deflects, obstructs, muddies
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSBh6C5eZgc
Obama State Department Won’t Say If Jerusalem Is The Capital Of Israel
Things given to children by the public should be mild, milk and water LCD. In a word, inoffensive.
The reason is, they are not the parents.
As a parent I know what my kid can handle. And that differs from kid to kid even in the same family. Children that are easily influenced need more supervision then children who are more tough minded. Kids who are more easily shocked need stuff given to them in smaller doses. Maus is a book that some kids can handle and some can not.
In any case it is the job of the parent to decide.
Not the librarian.
She did not change a single one of their diapers. And if you did not do the work, you do not get a say.
The California governor and his wife force schools to buy his wife’s sex book or no school money.
I do believe I wove enough “my kid” in my statement. This however was well stated “Things given to children by the public should be mild, milk and water LCD. In a word, inoffensive.”
Wow! Just listened to the vid- what a despicable party they are! A bunch of jew hating, antisemites, who also happen to hate our nation as evidenced by their reckless dangerous open borders policies!
It was quite revealing when it happened
Then again, we were not surprised
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