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  • Destroyers of ‘gay’ books aren’t protecting teens (Hurl alert)

    04/09/2023 12:36:56 PM PDT · by Ennis85 · 19 replies
    Sunday Times ^ | 9th April 2023 | Louise O'Neill
    When we were children my mother would bring me and my sister to our local library every Saturday. We were allowed to take out two books of our own choosing (usually The Baby-sitters Club which my mother thought was cute, or one of the Sweet Valley High series, which she said was trash) and then the third book had to be what she deemed a classic: The Secret Garden, Tom’s Midnight Garden, A Little Princess and so on. When I turned 12 she took me down the steps from the children’s section of the library to the adult section and...
  • A child should not have to hide identity at school(Hurl alert)

    09/11/2022 3:42:59 PM PDT · by Ennis85 · 13 replies
    Sunday Times ^ | 11th September 2022 | Louise O'Neill
    Have you heard the story about Enoch Burke? An innocent schoolteacher, fighting the good fight against the woke liberal agenda. Jailed for his refusal to kowtow to the demands of the left-wing mob. Jailed for his religious beliefs. You can’t say anything any more, can you? It won’t just be cancellation on Twitter, now you’ll be thrown in Mountjoy for daring to say sex is real. That’s not the real story, of course. Burke, an evangelical Christian, was suspended from Wilson’s Hospital School in Westmeath last month arising from his opposition to addressing a transgender child in the school by...