Those who support pornography in the government schools lost a battle this week, proving how critical the last election was when voters flipped the School Board from Far Left to normal.
In the end, only one board member, a Democrat, sided with pornographers, perverts and pedophiles. The others voted to remove a challenged book from school libraries.
The District Material Review Committee, made up of community stakeholders and a parent, met March 5 and recommended restoring the book to libraries.
Fortunately, the board acted on behalf of vulnerable children instead of “stakeholders” with an agenda.
It was a victory for parents and families and for organizations such as Moms for Liberty and Citizens Defending Freedom.
At the board meeting, there were 33 public comments in support of removing the challenged book and three in support of returning it to shelves, according to one observer.
Several disorderly outbursts by pornography proponents were ineffective in swaying the board.
The book is titled “Identical.” It is nonsensical trash about incest and sex.
One odd moment occurred during Tuesday’s board meeting when Board Member Cindy Pearson offered an amendment that would have allowed students having a parent’s signature to go behind a curtain and read the book. But Pearson didn’t even vote to support of her own kooky amendment.
Board Member Melody Bolduc deftly refuted the claims of the pro-pornography crowd. She said that — contrary to what one constituent claimed in an email — the book’s metaphor calling the Dad’s penis a stalagmite didn’t qualify as “literary value.”
“I’m a wall at this point,” Bolduc said. “This will not go through me.”
“Common sense won the night,” one child advocate said.
Contrary to liberal hysteria about imaginary “book bans,” this was the first challenged book to be restricted under new state law, and it took about three years to get it done.
Meanwhile, in Clay County, children have been protected from hundreds of books written for adults.
Duval County needs to pick up the pace. There probably are many books identical to “Identical” in local schools.
