Within the last two years parents have discovered that their children were being exposed to pornographic content. Books containing explicit sexual acts, rape, incest, prostitution, and group sex are available in school libraries.
This discovery prompted parents into action to protect their children, working to remove these books from school libraries. Who would object this action?
The American Library Association (ALA), school boards, teachers, and democrats object! On their Website they have created a “Fight Censorship” page, and has gone so far as to create a new Website, Unite Against Book Bans, to fight what they call an organized assault on the freedom to read. Why are these entities fighting to keep pornographic material available for children 12-18?
The University of Rochester Medical Center states that the brain isn’t fully mature until age 25. Content with such a cavalier and degrading approach to intimacy has the potential to cause serious psychological harm to a developing brain.
A group called Red Wine and Blue says it is fighting for the rights of children and is calling those wanting the pornographic material removed from school libraries “extremists.” When did graphic sexual content become essential in education?
Last month the St. Johns County School Board voted to keep several of the challenged books in school libraries. Tamara Whitaker in a News4Jax article stated, “Censoring the students’ reading is not protecting them, it’s a way to avoid teaching them important lessons.” What lesson would a student learn from reading the book “Lucky” with explicit details of a young woman who is violently raped?
In a moral society, exposing children to such negative, violent, and degrading content shouldn’t even exist. The fact that there are adults out there fighting to keep such content in schools demonstrates the depravity present in today’s culture.
Will society soundly reject this abusive path drawing a line in the sand, and protect the children? If not, then what is next?
