Last week, the California State Legislature approved AB 1825, which mandates that minors have unrestricted access to all books in public libraries, including those containing sexual content. The bill effectively removes the ability of local politicians, parents, and librarians to ensure that the children’s sections of libraries are safe spaces filled with age-appropriate materials.
AB 1825 states that public libraries shall not limit “access to library materials” even if those materials “may include sexual content.” The bill further emphasizes that “a person’s right to use a public library and its resources shall not be denied or abridged solely because of personal characteristics, age, background, or views….”
The recent controversy in Fresno County serves as a stark example of the dangers posed by AB 1825. During Pride Month, a local library featured a display of books in the children’s section that included sexually explicit content and books on gender identity. One of the sexually explicit books was titled, It’s Perfectly Normal. (See some details here) Concerned parents, along with a county supervisor, argued that these books were not appropriate for children and should be relocated to a section of the library that required parental approval for access. Their intention was not to ban these books from the library, but to ensure that impressionable and vulnerable minors were not exposed to material that could harm their understanding of relationships and development. (Read more about the Fresno story here)
The approach taken in Fresno was a measured response to a legitimate concern. However, under AB 1825, such community-driven solutions would be outlawed. Libraries would no longer have the authority to protect children by relocating sexually explicit materials to more appropriate sections of the library. This bill effectively handcuffs local communities, preventing them from making decisions in the best interest of their children….
It is also important to note that the bill’s author, Assemblyman Muratsuchi (D-Long Beach), acknowledged the potential harm by amending the bill to exclude school libraries, allowing school districts to retain control over what sexual content children can access. This creates a troubling double standard: if school libraries can protect children, why can’t public libraries do the same?…
From the California Family Council
California keeps sinking further into the pit each day. Why is California attacking the purity and innocence of their children with this outrageous Bill AB 1825? Concerned parents don’t give up because your children are worth fighting for. Our Lady of Fatima pray for the children of California and protect them from all evil influences.
That’s what communists do. If you don’t realize Democrats are communists by now, there’s no hope for you.
I’m at a loss. I thought most democrats were liberal. I didn’t know they were communists. Could you give us all a good definition of communism please so that we are all on the same page?
That would be helpful.
Communists are totalitarians who want the government to control everything about people’s lives and have one-party rule.
Democrats are not liberals in the classical political and philosophical sense. Anyone who is a true liberal these days is a conservative, and is probably politically independent or unaffiliated because the Republicans aren’t classical liberals anymore either.
Democrats are leftists, not liberals. Communism is on the left.
Democrats know they aren’t liberals, which is why they now describe themselves with their preferred term “progressive”. But there’s nothing progressive about them nor their policies. They are leftist, totalitarian communists.
Leftists, the truest thing you mentioned is that Republicans aren’t classical liberals anymore. They are also not classical conservatives. At least the Republican Party policies are not classical conservatives but National Populism, which is very different.
And when I was born, everyone thought I was a girl person, and now they think I am a woman person, but I self-identify as a large male bear. Anyone who says differently has ursaphobia and is an ursaphobist.
Sorry, madame, you will always be unbearable. :)
Cute! Tom Byrne, and since I cannot top that one, I guess I had better come back down to earth and become a “woman person” again. Until the next time. Then I will become Ursa Minor, a girl bear I assume since it is smaller. (Laughter.)
In mythology, Ursa Minor was a boy. :)
That was centuries before it self-identified as a girl.
you think your punny but your not
It’s “You think you’re punny,” unless you intended the errors.
I’ve been listening to Patrick Madrid too much. It’s rubbed off. Now I’m going to hibernate for the rest of the night. Maybe I’ll wake up normal.
For those who do not know, Patrick Madrid had a caller on his program who was defending self-identifying as the opposite sex. Patrick than told him he self-identified as a Doctor of Philosophy thus proving in the conversation how insane it is to self-identify as anything.
Don’t worry too much. At the rate public education/indoctrination is producing total illiterates, pretty soon no one will go to libraries. In our future Idiocracy, libraries will be like a screen door on a submarine.
My local suburban library does not have the users it had in my youth. The kids there after school and even most adults are using electronics, not books or paper references. Because of the Internet there is no longer much of a reference section. In the 60s it was open 10-5 Mon-Sat, and even experimented with evening hours twice a week in the 1990s. Now its closed Mondays and opens at noon two of the remaining days. Parents bring young kids to get storybooks and older women check out new fiction, but I see little other traffic when I drop by. At least we have had no drag queens (yet), but it’s possible the hard-copy circulating library may go the way of the local bookstore in the next generation.
One can rent electronic books from Amazon also and read them online. The internet and kindle are hard on the eyes, though. My daughters got glasses way before I did, and I blame it on too much computer use in their jobs. I would rather buy paper books and magazines and give or lend to others or borrow from them. My friends exchange such things as fruit from their trees, good clothing, jewelry and reading material. That is common among home schoolers and just about everyone else I would think.
Correction: my daughters got glasses at a way younger age than I did.
Gavin the Great must rule over you since you are too stupid to know what’s best for your children. He cares.
Don’t like it? Move to some backward state like Idaho or Texas or Tennessee or Florida; where parents and local school boards matter and public libraries are run as if, well, as if they’re really “public” and should do what the public wants. A few of those hillbilly-like states don’t even have state income tax.
Just submit and let the experts in Sacramento and Washington run your lives and those of your children and grandchildren.
This situation is far more dangerous and evil than the Satanic Democrat lawmakers understand. Not only will children’s innocence, goodness and morality be severely undermined and destroyed by laws like AB 1825 — very serious crimes of violent and extremely deviant sexual predators, human traffickers, pedophiles, and child pornographers will greatly increase, as well as abortion and sexually transmitted diseases. Millions of California’s kids’ lives will be horriffically ruined. Many child victims of sex crimes may turn to drugs in their agony, and many may also turn to crime. A great many may end up in need of untold years of psychiatric help. California parents should think about getting new jobs out-of-state, and moving far away from California, in my opinion. I hope that some good faith and family groups, like California Family Council, can successfully fight these evils with lawsuits, as well as educating the public, and political action. The churches (all denominations) need much stronger religious education programs to teach Christianity to parishioners and their families, and give them as much support as possible, in daily practice of Christianity (including Catholicism). In a generation or two, new and excellent political leaders, with strong, Biblically-based Christian beliefs, morality, and good, common sense, may result– and a much better California may be re-born. But that may be beyond my lifetime. We have a huge battle with Satan to continue to fight, to life’s end. Christ will be the victor in the end, but after many long years of a terrible struggle.
How many teachers, librarians, and others on taxpayers’ dollars, are reading these filthy books to kids, during “Story Hour” at libraries and in school classrooms? Time for lots of lawsuits!
? Time for lots of lawsuits?
C’mon. System’s rigged.
Something much more “kinetic” is required.
More “kinetic?” How about getting rid of bad laws? That is what people are doing in other states. Plus, defunding public libraries, and establishing good ones with good, new laws, protecting kids from all evils.
It is easy to identify books that are not age-appropriate for kids in the library or classroom. First graders just don’t need to know about the … well, you know.
Yet, the process is very difficult when it comes to the next steps. Our world has changed over the last few decades. There are kids in their early school years who have two fathers or two mothers. How do you explain that to a first-grade classmate? Maybe it takes a book that we don’t think is age-appropriate but in reality might be the perfect solution.
And what happens when we go the next step and demand that all books that we deem inappropriate should be taken out of the town library? Should we remove Mein Kamph? Should we remove books about America’s history of slavery? How about books about cooking foods that aren’t healthy? How about books that include horrible criminal acts, incest, rape, wars against other religions? Can’t do that one because it is all in the Bible and we can’t remove Bibles, can we? Well maybe the KJV but not ours.
.You see, some things just seem easy and logical, but at some point, some actions trample on the civil rights of others. What’s a guy to do?