Posted on 12/22/2022 2:32:25 PM PST by TigerClaws
Earlier today, I posted on the campaign being waged by the left to normalize homosexual and transgender pornography as an intellectual offering to school children, many of whom are below the legal age of consent; see Washington Post Rolls Out the Groomer Strategy for Reaching into Elementary Schools and Winning Elections.
More states and localities realize what is going on here and are taking action. For example, Florida, under the leadership of Governor Ron DeSantis, has signed legislation making it much easier for parents to challenge porn in school libraries.
Sometimes school districts come to their senses and take action to remove obscene materials and find themselves fighting the Biden Department of Education. Such was the case with Texas’s Granbury Independent School District.
The Education Department’s Office for Civil Rights notified Granbury school officials on Dec. 6 that it had opened the investigation following a July complaint by the ACLU, which accused the district of violating a federal law that prohibits discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender. The ACLU complaint was based largely on an investigation published in March by NBC News, ProPublica and the Tribune that revealed that Granbury’s superintendent, Jeremy Glenn, instructed librarians to remove books dealing with sexual orientation and people who are transgender.
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An Education Department spokesperson confirmed the investigation and said it was related to Title IX of the Education Amendments of 1972, which prohibits schools from discriminating on the basis of sex, gender and sexual orientation. The Office for Civil Rights doesn’t comment on pending investigations, the spokesperson said.
If the investigation confirms violations of students’ rights in Granbury schools, the agency can require the district to make policy changes and submit to federal monitoring.
Not having gay- or trans-themed porn in school libraries is not a sign of discrimination. There is literally no right to porn in schools. Kicking porn out of schools is a sign that, every once in a while, sane people run school districts. Sexually explicit materials, particularly those that endorse aberrant and unsafe behavior, have no place in school libraries, no matter what flavor of ice cream they encourage. Non-pedophiles should be able to agree on this very basic concept.
The Biden Education Department intervening in a very local issue to push an agenda abhorrent to most parents in that school district is grotesque. Hopefully, the new GOP House majority can take some time out from stabbing one another in the back and hold very public hearings on why the federal government is interfering.
Dare these SOBs to show their face, then wipe them out.
Long past time we honored the 10th Amendment and ended that federal agency.
Sue the Department of Education for contributing to the delinquency of a minor...
That's the ticket...Congressional hearings. That always gets a lot done.
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Our feral government hard at work.
This is what civil war looks like, folks.
That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.
You bet! Let ‘em investigate ... keep it as public as possible ... invoke FJB’s whenever possible ... an appearance on Tucker’s program is in order!
Our system protects the gay porn purveyors and will send federal agents to assure their “civil rights” and contributions to “education” are fully sheltered.
Notice most victims’ complaints of vandalism and physical threats to people giving education and advice to women considering alternatives to abortion are so far on the back burners they are getting frost on them.
The Democrats would have executed the Founders and Framers after show trials.
All this stuff goes round and round but the actual books are never named. In St Tammany Parish one offending book was named because a parent had the copy he took from his adolescent boy, the title is ‘Lawn Boy’, and he tried to read part of a detailed description of a homosexual copulation between the title character and an adult man. Much screeching ensued as people protested ‘it was offensive’. But nor so offensive that either lazy library staff or deliberately complicit ones went ahead and checked out a book clearly labelled ‘Adult’ and ‘Contains Explicit Content’ to an under age patron. The names of the offending books need to be published, then you can check them on Amazon.
“Jeremy Glenn, instructed librarians to remove books dealing with sexual orientation and people who are transgender.”
I doubt it was a cut and dry as that. Most likely the librarians were told to remove sexually explicit materials. It is just too bad that most of those will be about the pervert groups.
We are getting closer . . . .
Luke 17:28-30 Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
I think the founders and framers would have put the democrats six feet under had they tried to do so.
If the Fed shows up, they should be immediately arrested and charged locally with grooming and pandering and every other pedophile charge they can.
"Texas School District Faces Federal Department of Education [??? emphasis added] Investigation for Taking Gay Porn out of Its Libraries"
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
With all due respect to Texas Freeper parents, please consider the following.
If Texas parents were making sure that Texas INTRAstate schools were reinforcing what Texas parents are teaching their children about the fed's constitutionally limited powers, then Texas school children would be able to remind their parents of the following MAJOR constitutional problem with so-called federal Department of Education.
With the exception of militia training, the constitutional problem with the so-called Department of Education is that the states have never expressly constitutionally given the feds the specific power to establish such an office, or to dictate policy, regulate, tax and spend In the name of intrastate schooling for any state.
In fact, both President Thomas Jefferson, in a State of the Union address, and Justice Joseph Story had indicated the states would first need to appropriately amend the Constitution before Congress can dictate, regulate, tax and spend in the name of INTRAstate schools, something that the states have never done.
“The great mass of the articles on which impost is paid is foreign luxuries, purchased by those only who are rich enough to afford themselves the use of them. Their patriotism would certainly prefer its continuance and application to the great purposes of the public education, roads, rivers, canals, and such other objects of public improvement as it may be thought proper to add to the constitutional enumeration of federal powers [emphasis added].” —Thomas Jefferson: 6th Annual Message, 1806." (Jefferson is indicating that Congress cannot tax and spend in the name of intrastate infrastructure imo.)
"Congress is not empowered to tax for those purposes which are within the exclusive province of the States." —Justice John Marshall, Gibbons v. Ogden, 1824.
"The power to regulate manufactures is no more confided to congress, than the power to interfere with the systems of education, the poor laws, or the road laws of the states [emphasis added]." —Justice Joseph Story, Commentaries on the Constitution 2, 1833.
"From the accepted doctrine that the United States is a government of delegated powers, it follows that those not expressly granted, or reasonably to be implied from such as are conferred, are reserved to the states, or to the people. To forestall any suggestion to the contrary, the Tenth Amendment was adopted. The same proposition, otherwise stated, is that powers not granted are prohibited [emphasis added]." —United States v. Butler, 1936.
“Cherish, therefore, the spirit of our people, and keep alive their attention. If once they become inattentive to the public affairs, you and I, and Congress and Assemblies, judges and governors, shall all become wolves. It seems to be the law of our general nature.” - Thomas Jefferson (Letter to Edward Carrington January 16, 1787)
Texas needs to put a stop to unconstitutonal federal taxes according to the excerpt from Gibbons v. Ogden above by leading ALL the states to effectively "secede" from the unconstitutinally big federal government by repealing the 16th (direct taxes) and 17th (popular voting for federal senators) Amendments (16&17A).
The amendment to repoeal 16&17A would arguably require relatively little or ideally no discussion if the proposed amendment was strictly limited to repealing those amendments imo.
Read and show the material at school board hearings.
Screw the courts. Judges can drop dead.
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