Here’s a question: Given that you could be arrested and charged for showing minors certain images readily available in some school libraries, what should happen to the people responsible for their availability in those school libraries? One writer knows where she stands.
“It’s time to start arresting school board members for child pornography,” she unabashedly proclaims.
Raising this issue is a shocking story out of Fairfax, Virginia. The Daily Caller provided a summary Friday:
- A mother of a student at Fairfax County Public Schools complained to the school board about two books featuring child pornography and pedophilia available to young teenagers at school libraries during a Thursday school board meeting.
- Stacy Langton opened by explaining that she watched what had happened at a Texas school board meeting after parents discovered two books accessible to their children, “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison and “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe.
- “The other book has detailed illustrations of a man having sex with a boy,” Langton said to the school board while she unfolded copies of the x-rated illustrations. “The illustrations include fellatio, sex toys, masturbation and violent nudity.”
Reportedly, these materials were available to children as young as 12 and 13 (though the larger point is that they’re inappropriate for anyone).
“Both of these books include pedophilia,’” Langton told the board,” reported Fox News. “Sex between men and boys.… One book describes a fourth-grade boy performing oral sex on an adult male. The other book has detailed illustrations of a man having sex with a boy.”
Outrageously, the board attempted to silence the mother by shutting off her mic under the pretext that there were “children” in the room (reportedly, there weren’t). Of course, this is a tacit admission of the obvious, that the material is obscene.
The tweet below has an embedded video (WARNING: obscene material) of Langton’s appearance before the board members, all of whom sported their obedience masks. Wouldn’t it be nice if they were just as meticulous about protecting minors from soul-searing corruption as they are about performing scientifically obscurantist COVID Ritual?
Instead of joining Langton in her righteous outrage, the board members self-righteously lectured her and other parents for behaving inappropriately. After negative press, however, they did reluctantly agree to suspend circulation of the books and “review” them (because, apparently, it’s such a tough judgment call).
Yet this is “not good enough,” wrote commentator Andrea Widburg Saturday. Widburg then stated that after Langton’s mic was cut, she “shouted out an important point: by making those books available to minors, the schools are committing a criminal act. In Virginia, as is true across America, producing, possessing, and distributing child pornography are all criminal acts. Moreover, according to FindLaw, the sentences under Virginia’s penal code ‘are some of the harshest in the country and can result in jail, fines, a criminal record, and sex offender registration.’”
Here’s how FindLaw defines what is prohibited, relates Widburg:
Production: Solicit or entices a minor to be the subject of child porn, produces, prepares to produce, or attempts to make child pornography, knowingly takes part in or participates in the production of child pornography, financing child pornography or attempting to finance child pornography
Possession: Knowingly possessing an item depicting sexual exploitation or abuse of a child;
Distribution: Knowingly distributing an item of child pornography Distribution means reproducing, copying, selling, giving away, and electronically transmitting, etc. child pornography.
Widburg additionally mentions that, of course, grooming children by way of showing them porn is also prohibited under Virginia Code.
The commentator then makes an important point. “The problem with conservatives is that they rely on what they think will be public shaming and the threat of losing re-election,” she writes. “Thus, Langton said board members should be charged, obviously intending to shame them, but stopped there. They feel no shame, and, even though people hate their policies, surprisingly, they keep getting votes. Go figure.”
In fact, not only do these corruptors often feel no shame, but they also are often radical sexual devolutionaries who scoff at even the mildest attempts at resurrecting sexual propriety. For instance, one Fairfax board member, Karl Frisch, responded to the controversy by defiantly tweeting, “To be clear, nothing will disrupt our Board’s commitment to LGBTQIA+ students, families, and staff. Nothing.”
Widburg also presents, as an example of how to deal with these libertines, a recent video (below) of an Ohio mayor giving his town’s school board an ultimatum.
Even this isn’t enough, however. If the board truly is guilty, force them to resign and charge them.
The reality is that conservatives, being instinctively conservative as in defensive, are too often busy playing Mr. Nice Guy (“Oh, I don’t want to see anyone lose his job…”). But culture wars are zero-sum games. The Left will stop at nothing to purge anyone opposing its agenda, and this example should be followed. Leaving a soul destroyer in place to fight another day is a recipe for destruction.
The second lesson is that, as illustrated in “The Slippery Slope to Pedophilia,” leftists as a group couldn’t care less about sexualizing children. They only pretend to when it’s a convenient vehicle through which to attack institutions they despise, such as the Catholic Church and the pre-moral-collapse Boy Scouts.
In fact, corrupting children serves leftists’ ends. As I pointed out recently in “When Children Cancel Parents,” when the young develop an erotic (emotional) attachment to vice, they’ll be less likely when older to accept reason’s dictates and more likely to embrace vice-born philosophies and ideologies.
So, yes, there is method to the madness.
