Vermont school commits to kiddie porn as enlightening for children: The school has proclaimed it has the duty to expose children to pornographic imagery — to support free speech

American Thinker ^ | 12/11/2021 | John Klar

[SeekAndFind]

Vermont's Essex-Westford School District, which includes the town of Essex that last year fired a high school lifeguard for merely questioning Critical Race Theory, has done it again.  In the midst of a national furor over a sexually explicit graphic novel, the school has proclaimed it has the duty to expose children to pornographic imagery — to support free speech.

It is axiomatic that free speech rights do not extend fully into schools — they never have.  For example, the First Amendment protects quite a shocking variety of pornographic materials, including bondage and rape videos.  Are those acceptable, protected school teaching materials?  School administrations are supposed to be answerable to the appropriate needs of children.

But ESWD has declared itself the champion of the minuscule percentage of children afflicted with gender dysphoria, which not only is rare, but most often disappears with adulthood.  All children must be sacrificed at Essex-Westford.

The book in question, Gender Queer, created a national controversy not because the subject of the book is a "non-binary" student (a multitude of such titles abound, as all informed parents are now unavoidably aware), but because the book features "pages of explicit illustrations depicting oral sex [sic]."  The school's defiant letter to parents avoids mentioning this fact, instead proclaiming itself the defender of constitutional values:

Essex High School recently learned that a gender-affirming book in our library is being discussed on various websites. There is a long history of certain books being banned in the United States, so this is not a new conversation.

This sentence marks the beginning of a perverse justification for distributing pornography to children.  The rationale employed would serve to groom children sexually for adult sodomy as a child's "right."

[joe fonebone]

Until these so called people are openly mocked and humiliated, this crap will continue in the school system

[bigbob]

I think you meant fired and prosecuted

[SE Mom]

This is madness. What is happening to our country? Forcing little children to be vaccinated, forcing them to be exposed to pornography, allowing them to choose their gender. Children.

[cockroach_magoo]

Today I learned that it’s not okay for a CNN producer to groom children, but it is okay when public school administrators do it.

[RKBA Democrat]

A stupid book. And most libraries I’ll bet bought it as a result of a recommendation, not because they actually read it. So rather than spend countless hours trying to have it removed, how about a direct approach? Some patriot checks it out and fails to return it. They then pay for the book. The schools for the most part aren’t interested in the fight so they’ll just use the money to buy something else.

[aquila48]

Since they are such champions of free speech I’m sure they would eagerly defend the use of the “n” word, and non-approved opinions about homos, LGBTQRSTUVs, blacks, women, etc, etc

[Big Red Badger]

Raising kids in Sodom and Gomorrah is gonna be Tough when a He/Shes’ dominates
Female Swimming tournaments.
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The inmates run the jail.

[PGR88]

Its middle-aged white Karens doing this.

[rlmorel]

I wouldn’t even do that.

I would just take the book off the shelf, go in the bathroom, and after soaking the book with toilet water, throw it in the trashcan.

Just in case someone finds it and fishes it out.

[dadgum]

It’s going to get bad.

Pray.

ACT: hold the schoolboards accountable - and make life extremely difficult for them.

[blueplum]

parental strike and a class-action suit against the county for creating a sexually hostile environment for children in violation of Child Protective Services etc etc etc. Force the county to hire an attorney to defend. They’ll back down soon enough. The system to correct abberant behavior is in place, we just have to learn how to use it as well as activists already do.

[Secret Agent Man]

does the school support the free speech of those that have different views on this and other issues? or are tgey fired and/or escorted off school premises?

[RKBA Democrat]

That’s another way.

TPTB have earned contempt. They should reap the harvest.

[cherry]

I don't know what to say to these parents except our little ones deserve to have a childhood without these adult themes beaten into them....

people get murdered every day...I suppose these Vermonters would be okay with books and movies about violent murders being committed....free speech you know.

[telescope115]

Boy, did you ever connect the dots! Brilliant point!

[telescope115]

It would be interesting to see how CNN would cover the school story-I bet they wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole.

[Maris Crane]

Who the he!! lives in Vermont these days.

I thought Seattle and Portland, the West Coast Portland, were bad.

These people must still be living in animal skins, not cured.

[Liz]

Nails it. Deserves a repeat.

Today I learned that
<><>it’s not okay for a CNN producer to groom children,
<><>but it is okay when public school administrators do it.

[Liz]

I’ll bet most libraries bought it as a result of a recommendation, not because they actually read it.

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NORTH AMERICAN MAN/BOY LOVE ASSOCIATION (NAMBLA)

Among LGBT groups, few can claim the degree of name recognition accorded to the North American Man/Boy Love Association (NAMBLA). Founded in 1978, NAMBLA has been among the most controversial groups in LGBT history. The group was initially inspired by the work of the Boston/Boise Committee, which formed in 1977 to defend a group of men indicted for running a boy prostitution ring based in Massachusetts.

NAMBLA members have not been secretive about their beliefs and practices. On the contrary, the group maintains a formidable list of publications, available in many bookstores and libraries.

The Harvard University Library, as well as several other prominent repositories, carry runs of the group’s publications, including NAMBLA News, NAMBLA Bulletin, NAMBLA Journal, and Gayme.

A series called NAMBLA Topics addresses mostly legal issues, although number 4 is called Boys Speak Out on Man/Boy Love (1986); number 5 offers an anthology, Poems of Love and Liberation (1996); and number 8 (1998) carries a short story, “Voodoo,” by Ken Esser. The group also published A Witchhunt Foiled: The FBI vs. NAMBLA (1985). Nor has NAMBLA shied away from appropriate public venues, including LGBT pride parades, radio and television programs, and protest marches.