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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do people here keep referring to “book bans” when what has happened is that a book is age-limited. Is this some political styling to score points against your adversaries or do you sincerely not know what the word “ban” means? [/quote]

Precisely this.  No books have been banned.  They are placed only in age-appropriate settings.  Huge difference.  [/quote]

So younger kids are banned from reading them?[/quote]

Don't you worry, your kids will have all the lewd, pornographic books they can get their hands on once they reach high school.  Maybe even middle school.  Or, you know, feel free to buy them yourself and have a really wholesome story hour with your own kids.  Knock yourself out.[/quote]

LOL that you think the books being pulled from schools are "pornographic."  I mean yes, the Bible does have some pretty sexualized stuff in it for sure.

Did you keep your kids from PG movies until they were 18?[/quote]

If you think Gender Queer, Lawn Boy, This Book is Gay, etc. are the equivalent of PG, then we have nothing further to discuss.  [/quote]

What is wrong with This Book is Gay?  Have you ever read it??[/quote]

https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/tampa-school-sex-book/

Educate yourself.

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It sounds like a book about how sex works except it specifically talks about how gay sex works. So?[/quote]

Feel free to buy this book for your own kid.  Or get it from the public library for your own kid.  [/quote]

You don't get it. If libraries have books about how heterosexual sex happens - One was given out in my fifth grade sex ed class 30 years ago which talked about that hetero sex, masturbation, and more - why can't a book talk about how gay sex works? [/quote]

Because heterosexual sex can result in pregnancy and it makes sense to educate kids (though I think it should be done via a class and nurse). Gay sex does not.[/quote]

I understand that’s what you think. But why should our policy be based on what you think alone?[/quote]

Ask yourself the same question.
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Because generally in our society, we don’t try to censor stuff and allow individuals to make choices from themselves and their children. The burden of proof is really on those who wish to ban stuff - whether it’s a book about two mommies or the Bible. [/quote]

Wrong.  The burden of proof is on the parents who [b]want[/b] their kids to be exposed to these books.  Get them yourself.[/quote]

Wouldnt this just mean we should get rid of all school libraries?[/quote]

Only if you’re so simpleminded you actually can’t figure out what “age-appropriate” means.[/quote]

Who gets to decide what is age appropriate?

I read stuff in middle school that a lot of conservative parents would raise hell over. My parents were pretty liberal and had no problems with whatever we read. They were stricter about letting us get into video games or the films we could watch.

Those books did not lead me to the dark side, by the way.[/quote]

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