Illinois Democrat Governor to Punish Schools That Keep Porn Away From Kids
Too “obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors”
By Daniel Greenfield
Within a generation, Democrats have gone from being the party of Tipper Gore to being the party of Michael Jackson. The entire Dem establishment, from Biden at the federal level, to state officials, are doubling and tripling down on going after parents and pushing pornography on kids.
Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker has said he supports a House bill that would withhold state funding from any of the state’s 1,600 public or school libraries that remove books from their shelves. It passed in the Illinois Senate on Wednesday, and Pritzker is expected to sign the legislation.
“In Illinois, we don’t hide from the truth, we embrace it and lead with it,” the governor said when the bill was first presented. “Banning books is a devastating attempt to erase our history and the authentic stories of many.”
What “books” is Gov. Pritzker talking about?
The impetus for the legislation came from newly elected Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, whose office oversees library systems and their funding. Giannoulias, a Democrat, said he couldn’t fathom that book banning is happening in 2023.
“It is so blatant, and so dangerous. I was blown away,” he told POLITICO.
Giannoulias proposed the idea of banning book bans during his campaign last year and then approached Democratic state Rep. Anne Stava-Murray about following through with legislation. She had a special interest because a group of parents at a high school in her district demanded a book about a nonbinary person coming out — “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” by Maia Kobabe — be banned from the school district’s shelves. The parents called the book pornographic.
Is it? Let’s go with the courts on this one.
Judge Pamela Baskervill ruled Wednesday that Gender Queer: A Memoir and A Court of Mist and Fury are too “obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors,” ABC 7 News reported. Virginia public schools may soon have to remove the novels and similarly graphic books from library shelves.
The book contains illustrations of a male character performing oral sex on a dildo affixed to Kobabe with a harness and recounts Kobabe’s trip to a pornography production company.
Gov. Pritzker and Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias want to make sure kids read that scene and all the other materials. But don’t call them “groomers”. They’re just fighting to “protect ideas” by punishing anyone whose ideas disagree with theirs, like schools with even the faintest sense of responsibility to their students or parents opposed to this in their schools.
https://www.raptureforums.com/polit...punish-schools-that-keep-porn-away-from-kids/
Too “obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors”
By Daniel Greenfield
Within a generation, Democrats have gone from being the party of Tipper Gore to being the party of Michael Jackson. The entire Dem establishment, from Biden at the federal level, to state officials, are doubling and tripling down on going after parents and pushing pornography on kids.
Democratic Gov. JB Pritzker has said he supports a House bill that would withhold state funding from any of the state’s 1,600 public or school libraries that remove books from their shelves. It passed in the Illinois Senate on Wednesday, and Pritzker is expected to sign the legislation.
“In Illinois, we don’t hide from the truth, we embrace it and lead with it,” the governor said when the bill was first presented. “Banning books is a devastating attempt to erase our history and the authentic stories of many.”
What “books” is Gov. Pritzker talking about?
The impetus for the legislation came from newly elected Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, whose office oversees library systems and their funding. Giannoulias, a Democrat, said he couldn’t fathom that book banning is happening in 2023.
“It is so blatant, and so dangerous. I was blown away,” he told POLITICO.
Giannoulias proposed the idea of banning book bans during his campaign last year and then approached Democratic state Rep. Anne Stava-Murray about following through with legislation. She had a special interest because a group of parents at a high school in her district demanded a book about a nonbinary person coming out — “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” by Maia Kobabe — be banned from the school district’s shelves. The parents called the book pornographic.
Is it? Let’s go with the courts on this one.
Judge Pamela Baskervill ruled Wednesday that Gender Queer: A Memoir and A Court of Mist and Fury are too “obscene for unrestricted viewing by minors,” ABC 7 News reported. Virginia public schools may soon have to remove the novels and similarly graphic books from library shelves.
The book contains illustrations of a male character performing oral sex on a dildo affixed to Kobabe with a harness and recounts Kobabe’s trip to a pornography production company.
Gov. Pritzker and Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias want to make sure kids read that scene and all the other materials. But don’t call them “groomers”. They’re just fighting to “protect ideas” by punishing anyone whose ideas disagree with theirs, like schools with even the faintest sense of responsibility to their students or parents opposed to this in their schools.
https://www.raptureforums.com/polit...punish-schools-that-keep-porn-away-from-kids/