(Mark Pellin, Headline USA) Using sexually explicit and graphic excerpts pulled from books that leftists want made available to kids in public schools and libraries, Sen. John Kennedy, R-La., shredded any pretense surrounding the radical LGBT grooming material.
During a U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday over books that critics claim homophobic and trans-prejudiced conservative politicians and concerned parents want banned from libraries, Kennedy used two of the books as examples to devastating effect.
“The first one is called All Boys Aren’t Blue and I will quote from it,” Kennedy said, and did, starting with “I put some lube on and got him on his knees,” and continuing with a whole raunch-filled passage.
In case the point was missed, Kennedy also quoted directly from the book Gender Queer, leading with “I got a new strap-on harness today,” and devolving into graphic and sexually explicit detail.
“What are you asking us to do? Are you suggesting that only librarians should decide whether the two books that I just referenced should be available to kids?” Kennedy asked Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias.
The leftist lawmaker was trying to defend his state’s new law that goes into effect next year and will defund libraries that decline to make LGBT grooming materials available to youths, what critics have called book bans.
“With all due respect, senator, the words you spoke are disturbing, especially coming out of your mouth, it’s very disturbing. But what I’d also tell you is we’re not advocating for kids to read porn,” Giannoulias deflected.
When pressed by Kennedy to explain, “What are you advocating for?” the secretary dug himself an even more opaque hole.
“We are advocating for parents, random parents, not to have the ability under the guise of keeping kids safe to try and challenge the world view on every single manner on these issues,” Giannoulias rambled.
“I’m saying that when individual parents get to draw that line … it becomes a slippery slope,” he said, falling back on comparing a rape scene in To Kill a Mockingbird to strapping up with a new dildo in Gender Queer.
Kennedy’s search for a direct answer was similarly thwarted by a LGBT activist who argued the grooming material should be made available if amorphous committees deemed it so, and it was cloaked as educational.
“Students who do not read books like All Boys Aren’t Blue cannot learn what is appropriate,” said the activist, who noted the book dealt with sexual abuse.
“I understand that, but none of you want to answer my question. You come here and you say censorship is bad. And of course it’s bad,” Kennedy responded. Noting the graphic nature of the books being cited weren’t comparative to The Catcher in the Rye, Kennedy asked again who leftists think should get to decide what books are appropriate for children.
“All I’ve heard is it’s the librarians and parents have nothing to do with it. And if that’s your response, what planet did you just parachute in from, or what country more appropriately. This is not China,” Kennedy concluded after failing to receive a straight answer.
Mark Pellin is an editor at Headline USA. Follow him at twitter.com/sabrepaw70.
