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Judge rules parents can’t yank kids out of classes because they use books with gay characters
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this post was submitted on 25 Aug 2023
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These people trying to ban books simply for having LGBT people that exist in them proves what we've known all along, it isn't about sex Ed, they simply do not want LGBT people to exist.
Ding ding ding! Like many things - racism, fear and general bigotry is often hidden behind some hypocritical pretense
Gonna get downvoted to hell by saying this, but I didn't see anything about the books being banned in the linked article or the source article. As a matter of fact the school in question doubled down on keeping them. But, you could argue by pulling kids out of classes as a protest against said books being included in a curriculum is effectively trying to get them banned.
What I did read was a judge basically told some bigoted ass parents that no you can't opt your kids out of the classes whose curriculum go against your religious "morals". That, I don't agree with. That is a very sharp double edged sword that could be abused in so many ways.
Suppose my religious morals were that evolution is a farce, condoms and responsible sex were akin to murder, and independent thought outside the church was frowned upon.
Would it still be a bad thing for the judge to rule against that? It's a slippery slope, but the line has to be drawn somewhere for the sake of the kids themselves.