With inappropriate books showing up in government sponsored public school libraries across the country, parents have been up in arms and demanding school districts “keep your dirty books in the closet and out of the school library,” and to stop making way for perverts to groom children. But, as they are being removed from the government sponsored public schools they are showing up in other places, remarkably in book stores where children have easy access to them. Photo courtesy The Daily Caller.
Display at Barnes and Noble on Hilton Head Island
A follower of the Facebook group page South Carolina Parents Involved in Education (SCPIE) recently posted photos of what she discovered on her trip to Barnes and Noble bookstore located in Hilton Head, SC. The parent was concerned about the display of BANNED BOOKS being displayed so close to the children’s section of the bookstore.
The parent asserted it was as if Barnes and Noble’s manager was trying to entice children through highlighting a whole display of ‘to read’ inappropriate books that are being labeled “Banned Books” in our public schools. It indeed appears the store is trying to make it easier for children to find the books that are being questioned by parents as being age inappropriate for children. The parent took another photo showing just how this display is positioned within the store. The parent said, ” I took this photo while standing in the children’s section. All the children will see this display while exiting the children’s section.”
Location of Display at Barnes and Noble of Banned Books
The parent’s concerns are genuine. The parent stated in her post on Facebook, “I’m happy that people can purchase the books if they want to, but STOP GROOMING THE CHILDREN!”
Should Parents Allow Corporations to Use License of Lascivious Books to Groom Children?
Is this an intentional display to entice underage children to go look at the banned book display? It would seem so.
Doesn’t “banned books” mean they aren’t appropriate nor allowed to be read? So why is a large corporation like Barnes and Nobles openly making it easy to purchase these books, and more importantly… why did they put the display in a prominent location that catches the eyes of young children?
When a school board decides a book is not appropriate for use in their curriculum… is that really banning a book? Or is it simply saying that book is not appropriate literature that has educational value in their school district?
Should a local bookstore be going out of their way to undermine decisions made by the local school district?
This issue of removing books from local school districts’ curriculum is indeed a hot topic.
Are removing books from curriculum the same as banning books? Shouldn’t local school districts be able to decide what is appropriate for use in their curriculum?
After all, not EVERY SINGLE BOOK ever published is available in your child’s school library or on display in Barnes and Noble. Does that mean the others are banned…or does it mean there is choice in choosing what books are made more important than others?
The books in Barnes & Noble under the banner “Banned Books” were banned from government sponsored public schools for many reasons, including: Drug reference, suicide, death, disrespect for truth and authority, encouraging children to use violence against their fathers, antiChristian beliefs, teaching occult practices, promotion of LGBTQP agenda and pornography to children, sexuality, and new concepts [of sexuality]…”
Barnes & Nobles states on their website that many books are
“banned on moral, religious, or political grounds…”
or
“They were believed to be obscene or too controversial to be read by society.”
The problem with the B&N statement is that we’re not talking about adults reading books in our society, we’re talking about young children, many in grade school under 10 years old, who still need parental guidance to understand the world around them. This guidance include protecting them from predators, often called “chickenhawks”, who are grooming children for their sexual advances.
A recent Federal Court decision upholds the right of a school district to decide what books they want to use in their curriculum. For instance, federal district court in the EASTERN DISTRICT OF MISSOURI EASTERN DIVISION, the case of CK.W v. Wentzville R IV School Dist. (see here: https://www.courthousenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/missouri-school-library.pdf) which stressed “this case does not ‘ban’ a book when… it decides not to continue possessing a book on its own library shelves.”
An article in Reason Magazine entitled “Removal of Books With “Lascivious Content” from School Libraries Likely Constitutionally Permissible” details why it is possible to remove books that are lascivious or lewd. Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary defines Lascivious: “filled with or showing sexual desire : LEWD, LUSTFUL”. In other words the Federal Court has ruled that lascivious books are prohibited and can be removed from school libraries not because of “book banning” but because they exhibit a prurient and lustful nature put before children. Prurient is defined as: “marked by, arousing, or appealing to sexual desire”. In other words prurient is the same as lascivious, marked by inducing lustful thinking! This is exactly what the Biblical mandate warns against:
Romans 1:27, And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
Should Taxpayers Pay for Lascivious Books Targeted at Children?
It is imperative we understand what books are appropriate to include in tax supported public-school curriculums. Should the taxpayers be forced to pay for lascivious books that go contrary to the norms and standards of society in general to promote a leftist sexual agenda? Shouldn’t the taxpayers have a voice in those choices? Granted, local bookstores can sell any book “they choose” to display, but should they be cooperating with parents of underage children by NOT trying to promote and display books in an enticing manner? We know that sexually explicit, lascivious and books of a prurient nature is what caused book burnings in NAZI Germany prior to WWII. In fact, the German people were trying to protect their children from the same sexually perverted evil people that are trying to capture our children today.
Barnes & Noble have a banned book list on their website that lists many books. Deceptively they show books that are benign at best in the first portion of their list. Books like: Fahrenheit 451, Lord of the Flies, 1984, To Kill a Mockingbird, Of Mice and Men, etc. Then there are the books that promote a dark occultic and communist agenda: Critical Race Theory: The Key Writings, The Amulet of Samarkand (a book about how to become a witch or wizard), Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West, etc.
They hide the more prurient and LGBTQP books further back in the listings, such as: Rainbow Road, Rainbow Boys, What My Mother Doesn’t Know, On the Bright Side I’m Now the Girlfriend of a Sex God, Lawn Boy, Tricks (a book about how to become a prostitute), Queer There and Everywhere, and many more sexually charged books. Interestingly, they even list the classic Southern historical novel “Gone With the Wind” on their list of banned books. Some of the books on their banned list are tame but many are lascivious and are not suitable for reading by children, or even adults in my opinion as they have no purpose other than prurient.
Parents Should be Concerned That Books Promoting Aberrant Behavior Are Offered to Children at B&N Next to the Children’s Book Section
Barnes and Noble in Hilton Head, and across the country are offering these books online and in their stores. If this concerns you you may call them at: 843-342-6690
Some would say to boycott Barnes and Noble and other bookstores who display prominently banned books for underage children to pick up and read. Regardless, this concerns parents and grandparents, and they should hear your voice. Don’t allow big corporations to groom your children!
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