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Senator, 71, gets NSFW with sexually graphic reading during hearing on book bans

  

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Senator, 71, gets NSFW with sexually graphic reading during hearing on book bans

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A relatively routine Senate Judiciary Committee hearing turned R-rated Tuesday — when Sen. John Kennedy read from a sexually graphic children’s book to drive home growing calls from parents to have age-appropriate literature in schools and libraries.

The 71-year-old Republican from Louisiana recited sections from LGBTQ young adult books, including “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “Gender Queer,” and grilled witnesses who have pushed state legislation and initiatives to block parents from having a say in what their child can access.

“I put some lube on and got him on his knees. And I began to slide into him from behind,” Kennedy read from “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” a coming-of-age book for young adults with a queer black protagonist.

“He asked me to turn over while he slipped a condom on himself.”

The NSFW reading came during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Book Bans: Examining How Censorship Limits Liberty and Literature,” which discussed efforts to define what books should be publicly available. 

“I want to try to understand what you’re asking us to do. Let’s take two books that have been much discussed,” Kennedy told Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias, who earlier this year backed a bill to withhold state funding from libraries that don’t follow American Library of Association guidelines.

The guidelines   make no mention of sexually explicit content and say books “should not be proscribed or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.” The Illinois bill, which was   signed into law   by Gov. J.B. Pritzker in June, also   does not address   potentially lewd material.

With all due respect, Senator, the words you spoke are disturbing, especially coming out of your mouth, it’s very disturbing,” Giannoulias responded. “But I would also tell you that we’re not advocating for kids to read porn.

“We are advocating for parents, random parents, not to have the ability under the guise of keeping kids safe to try and challenge the worldview of every single manner on these issues,” Giannoulias said.

“When individual parents are allowed to make a decision of where that line is and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ which involves a rape scene, should that book be pulled from our libraries? I think it becomes a slippery slope.”

Judiciary Chairman Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) countered that witnesses were not “advocating for sexually explicit content to be available in an elementary school library or in [the] children’s section of the library.”

“That’s a distraction from the real challenge,” he said. “I understand and respect that parents may choose to limit what their children read, especially at younger ages. My wife and I did. Others do, too. But no parent should have the right to tell another parent’s child what they can and cannot read in school or at home. Every student deserves access to books that reflect their experiences and help them better understand who they are.”


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Sean Treacy
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1  seeder  Sean Treacy    last year

"With all due respect, Senator, the words you spoke are disturbing, especially coming out of your mouth, it’s very disturbing,” Giannoulias responded."

But Kids should have access to it, or you are worse than NAZIS!

It's really funny to the juxtaposition between people screaming about censorship or book banning because libraries aren't providing sexually explicit literature to kids, then attack or censor those who read the material they want kids to have. DeSantis did this during the manufactured book banning crisis, and the new orgs covering his press conference had to censor him or cut away form him reading from the "banned  books".  But for kids, it's fine! 

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.1  devangelical  replied to  Sean Treacy @1    last year

yikes, he should know better than to read gay porn to southern conservative xtians...

 
 
 
GregTx
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1.1.1  GregTx  replied to  devangelical @1.1    last year

Why, in your experience what happens next?....

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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1.1.2  seeder  Sean Treacy  replied to  devangelical @1.1    last year

I don't know who taught you geography, but Illinois is not "southern" and it's  Secretary of State is not a conservative. 

I can't speak to whether he's a Christian or not because I'm not obsessed by the topic. 

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.1.3  devangelical  replied to  Sean Treacy @1.1.2    last year
Senator, 71, gets NSFW with sexually graphic reading during hearing on book bans 
A relatively routine Senate Judiciary Committee hearing turned R-rated Tuesday — when Sen. John Kennedy read from a sexually graphic children’s book

The 71-year-old Republican from Louisiana recited sections from LGBTQ young adult books

...followed by an obtuse comment. so which is it?

 
 
 
goose is back
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1.1.4  goose is back  replied to  devangelical @1.1.3    last year
"With all due respect, Senator, the words you spoke are disturbing, especially coming out of your mouth, it’s very disturbing,” Giannoulias responded."

Giannoulias if from Illinois!

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.1.5  devangelical  replied to  GregTx @1.1.1    last year
Why, in your experience what happens next?....

an affinity for wearing a cowboy hat with a thin pony hub while listening to country western music.

 
 
 
GregTx
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1.1.6  GregTx  replied to  devangelical @1.1.5    last year

Interesting... rather detailed. Is that opinion or personal experience?

 
 
 
devangelical
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1.1.7  devangelical  replied to  GregTx @1.1.6    last year

I have family in texas.

 
 
 
JBB
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2  JBB    last year

Naw! Kolonel Kornpone Kennedy CAN'T READ!

 
 
 
JohnRussell
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3  JohnRussell    last year
With all due respect, Senator, the words you spoke are disturbing, especially coming out of your mouth, it’s very disturbing,” Giannoulias responded. “But I would also tell you that we’re not advocating for kids to read porn.

“We are advocating for parents, random parents, not to have the ability under the guise of keeping kids safe to try and challenge the worldview of every single manner on these issues,” Giannoulias said.

“When individual parents are allowed to make a decision of where that line is and ‘To Kill a Mockingbird,’ which involves a rape scene, should that book be pulled from our libraries? I think it becomes a slippery slope.”

No book should be banned or removed because one or two parents filed a complaint about it. 

 
 
 
Sean Treacy
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3.1  seeder  Sean Treacy  replied to  JohnRussell @3    last year
o book should be banned or removed because one or two parents filed a complaint about i

where does that happen? 

 
 
 
Snuffy
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3.2  Snuffy  replied to  JohnRussell @3    last year
No book should be banned or removed because one or two parents filed a complaint about it. 

Then you better also bitch about your own side.  Who was it that got Huckleberry Fin banned?  I'll give you a hint, it wasn't the people on the right.

And do you approve of minors having access to porn in a school library?

 
 
 
afrayedknot
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3.2.1  afrayedknot  replied to  Snuffy @3.2    last year

“…minors having access to porn in a school library?”

…any examples, just one, anywhere…

 
 
 
Snuffy
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3.2.2  Snuffy  replied to  afrayedknot @3.2.1    last year
“…minors having access to porn in a school library?” …any examples, just one, anywhere…

here's one,  easy Google search

Salina Public Schools made a decision not to ban "All Boys Aren’t Blue," a novel that was recently challenged during a board meeting. 

George M. Johnson’s memoir “All Boys Aren’t Blue” was published in April 2020, and Salina’s South High School and Central High School acquired it for their school libraries later that year. 

Salina schools won't ban "All Boys Aren't Blue from library shelves

As you know, high schools are mostly populated by minors.  From what I find in a Google search, there are only around 29 school districts in the country that have banned the book.  As there are 13,187 school districts in the US, it's only been banned in .219 percent of all school districts.

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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3.3  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  JohnRussell @3    last year

So you are good with putting To Kill a Mockingbird and Huckleberry Fin back in it's original text.

 
 
 
Ronin2
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3.4  Ronin2  replied to  JohnRussell @3    last year

No Democrat should be allowed to decide what anyone else's child learns or reads.

 
 
 
Drakkonis
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3.5  Drakkonis  replied to  JohnRussell @3    last year
No book should be banned or removed because one or two parents filed a complaint about it. 

For most books, I might agree. For the one's listed in the article, there shouldn't even be a debate. Whoever approved them for the school should at the very least lose their job and possibly be prosecuted. Even if it were describing heterosexual sex, it is beyond unacceptable. 

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4  Texan1211    last year

What is really funny is what he read can't even be said on television without getting bleeped out

But it is perfectly acceptable for kids to hear or see?!?!??

Are the ones pushing this idiots or what?

 
 
 
Jeremy Retired in NC
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4.1  Jeremy Retired in NC  replied to  Texan1211 @4    last year
What is really funny is what he read can't even be said on television without getting bleeped out But it is perfectly acceptable for kids to hear or see?!?!??

That's the moronic mindset of the left.

 
 
 
Texan1211
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4.1.1  Texan1211  replied to  Jeremy Retired in NC @4.1    last year
That's the moronic mindset of the left.

they are fucking NUTS!

 
 

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