“I knew these books were coming into the library, and I just hadn’t had time to research it. I finally got the time back at the end of January,” Egger said. He added that he knows about the industry from having owned a bookstore years ago. “It’s been a huge push from the publishers and the librarians to get these books in — books that say a boy can become a girl and a girl can become a boy.”
That's because Queer children exist, ya bloody dipstick.
His family wasn’t directly exposed to the books — Egger said he has lived in Front Royal 32 years and has five grown children and seven grandchildren, though most do not live in the area. But Egger views the topics as inherently wrong.
“I wasn’t focusing on anything but books that had sexual perversity in it … and books that promoted the lie of transgenderism,” he said.
Ugh. I hate that people like this can decide to have certain books removed on behalf of everyone else's family. Don't want your own kids or grand kids reading them? Fine, don't let them read those books. But they shouldn't be allowed to dictate what other peoples kids and grand kids can read; that's violating other peoples family rights.
In April, he filed formal complaints against three titles — “I Am Jazz,” a picture book about Jazz Jennings, a trans woman who writes she was “born with a girl’s brain in a boy’s body”; “This Is Why They Hate Us,” a young adult novel about a bisexual Latino boy; and “Ana on the Edge,” about a figure skater coming to terms with gender identity.
This shit is literally just another bogyman for right-wingers and other fascists. They lost the cultural "war" when equal marriage became legal across America, so the past few years they've been finding old reasons and modernizing them to hate queer people; what was old is now new again.
“Christ told us to be ‘cunning as serpents, and innocent as doves,’” an early version of the site said, inviting concerned residents to a “Beer, Babysitting, and Cleaning Up the Samuels Library” event in a local park. “Right now, innocence is under attack at our local Samuels Library. Explicity pornographic ‘young adult’ books, as well as books that promote fetishes such as the LGBTQ+ ideology have been found in the children’s and young adults sections of the library.”
They don't care about the "innocence" of queer kids, at all.
Anyways, this is a good read. This article made me angry from the ignorance and bigotry.