INDIANAPOLIS (LifeSiteNews) — Indiana Republican Gov. Eric Holcomb signed a law earlier this month that allows for parents and community members to challenge books that they find “obscene” or “harmful to minors” in school libraries.
According to provisions of H.B. 1447, public schools and charter schools in the state would have to create a database detailing all their inventory on their websites and create a procedure that would allow for parents and community members to submit a request to remove a book. The local school board would then have to review the request and discuss it at the next public school board meeting and establish an appeals process if it disagrees with the request. Holcomb signed the bill on May 4.
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The bill specifically allows for parents and community members to challenge books that are “harmful to minors,” which the Indiana State Code defines as anything representing nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, sado-masochistic abuse, that appeals to the “prurient interest in sex of minors,” is considered “offensive to adult standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable matter for or performance before minors,” and lacks any “serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value to minors.”
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
This nut could end up being your child’s teacher and you wouldn’t even find out the craziness they’re teaching until your kid tells you about it. If you aren’t disturbed after watching this, you’re a lunatic. School choice is the civil rights issue of our generation. pic.twitter.com/y1V3Rotx9k
— 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
If a given challenge is accepted but not heeded by a library, the offending librarian could face felony charges with a penalty of up to two and a half years in prison, the Indianapolis Star reported.
Previously, librarians could argue that a book should be kept in a school library strictly for “educational” purposes, and state law already barred students for having access to such material.
The provisions of the bill were previously considered by the Indiana legislature twice, though they died in the House on both occasions, the first time as a state Senate bill that died in the state House and the second time as a proposed amendment to a different Senate bill that died in a House committee. The current provisions of H.B. 1447 were inserted with the approval of both houses of the Indiana legislature in the final hours of the 2023 legislative session late last month into a bill that dealt with third-party surveys in schools.
In a statement about the bill, Holcomb said that he viewed the bill as a way to keep materials in school libraries “age appropriate.” “[H.B.] 1447 improves transparency and supports efforts to provide age-appropriate material in our libraries and I am happy that these decisions will continue to take place at the local level,” Holcomb said.
Across the nation, controversy has exploded in recent years over schools and libraries adopting books that attempt to expose sexual themes and activity to children, often in graphic detail and with pornographic imagery depicting specific sex acts.
In September 2021, for instance, Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS) in northern Virginia banned Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe and Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison for containing graphic depictions of homosexual activity. The books were eventually placed back on school library shelves in November.
The issue, along with the promotion of ideological messages in taxpayer-funded education, has in fueled a parent backlash that has been credited with Republican gains in states like Florida and Virginia, whose current respective governors have taken leading roles in fighting back.
Holcomb’s decision to sign H.B. 1447 contrasts with that of Illinois lawmakers to pass a bill making schools that remove pornographic material from their libraries ineligible for state grants.