HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — A Florida school board on Tuesday voted to remove an explicit LGBT book from all public middle school libraries in the area.
This Book is Gay, a 2015 book written by Juno Dawson and aimed at kids in eighth through twelfth grades, was first published in 2015. A best-seller, the book contains graphic descriptions and instructions concerning homosexual acts.
The Hillsborough County School Board voted to cull the book from its public middle schools in a special meeting on Tuesday, the Hill reported. The meeting came after a parent filed a complaint regarding the book’s presence in the school library of Pierce Middle School in Tampa.
A committee at Pierce Middle School voted to keep the book following a review, a decision affirmed by a district committee following an appeal. Another appeal, however, led to Tuesday’s meeting, resulting in a 4-3 vote to pull the books from the library shelves.
There are countless reasons to conclude modern sex-education is less about critical thinking and more about indoctrinating and sexualizing children at as young an age as possible.
Consider these 3 questions:
- Why are politicians around the world pushing radical transgender theories on children as young as 5?
- Why is the World Health Organization calling for 4 year-olds to be taught how to masturbate?
- Why are children in schools being shown graphic images of sex and told anything goes so long as consent is established, if not to encourage our sons and daughters to become sexually active?
A sane society would try to shield impressionable children from becoming sexualized, and encourage them not to watch pornography, take puberty blockers or mutilate their genitalia, but our schools increasingly promote these behaviors.
In reality, the media, most politicians, and many education chiefs are obliterating a parent’s ability to protect their child’s innocence and identity.
We must realize: these elites want children to have THEIR values, not YOURS. SIGN THE PLEDGE!
The results of this explicit, inappropriate sex-saturated culture and education have been startling: there have never been more children claiming to be transgender, gay, lesbian and bisexual, nor have we ever seen such high levels of sexual assaults by minors.
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— Jack Posobiec 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 12, 2021
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— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) August 17, 2021
Countless politicians, media personalities and education chiefs are too busy promoting woke trends to realize that sexualizing minors amounts to grooming, and has devastating consequences in many cases.
Children whose inhibitions are broken down risk addiction to pornography, teenage pregnancy, STDs, gender dysphoria, online shaming, and a whole host of other negative outcomes.
Parents, not the government, must be in control of what their child is taught about sex.
Just listen to the type of materials public schools in the U.S. are promoting:
That’s why we are asking you to sign the Parents’ Pledge that you will pull your children out of sex-education classes if your school chooses to sexualize your child.
The Parents’ Pledge is our best chance of winning back our children’s schools before they’re entirely lost to radical sex-obsessed teachers’ unions who are foisting these curricula on teachers.
Do you really want other adults deciding what your child is exposed to? Of course not.
Please share this brand new grassroots Parents’ Pledge with like-minded parents and join a growing movement of mothers and fathers who are wise to the threat of their child being led into sexual activity.
MORE INFORMATION:
Most teachers are disturbed by their unions’ push to sexualize children
The corrupting influence of sex-education is causing widespread abuse among school children
Pushing back against the school board’s decision, library media specialist Kathleen Daniels said the move was “[v]ery upsetting, and very scary.”
“This, that’s a very scary precedent for our future of books,” she said, according to the Hill.
However, School Board Member Stacy Hahn, who represents District 2, said it’s the presentation of graphic sexual content for kids that’s “upsetting.”
“For us to have a book is so sexually explicit in the hands of children, minors, that is what is upsetting and concerning to me,” she said.
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Hillsborough County’s decision to remove the explicit text comes as the state of Florida, under the leadership of the Sunshine State’s Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis, has cracked down on sexually explicit content in schools and school libraries, including materials that teach children about homosexuality and transgenderism.
DeSantis signed the much-maligned “Parental Rights in Education” act last year, prohibiting sexual and gender-ideology content in schools for students in kindergarten through third grade. Any such content for older children must be “age appropriate.”
The Florida governor has earned significant support from conservatives for the effort, while opponents, in particular California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, have accused him of waging a “totalitarian” assault on freedom of speech.
Last week, Florida’s Department of Education moved to expand the “Parental Rights in Education” bill to include grades 4-12.
DeSantis, who scored an historic re-election victory in November, is widely anticipated to announce a presidential run following the end of his state’s current legislative session in May.