All the hallmarks of leftist ideology and slippery slope dynamics were featured in one lawsuit filed Tuesday against a Florida school district over a book about gay penguins.
“When things don’t go your way, weaponize the government to get your way.”
The one-sidedness of corporate media’s coverage of alphabet activism stood prominent once again as the authors of the 2005 book “And Tango Makes Three” asserted their First Amendment rights were being violated by the Florida Parental Rights in Education Act.
Gay couple Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell filed suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida, along with a number of minor plaintiffs, against the Lake County School District for abiding by state law. Speaking with the New York Times, Richardson boiled the restricted access to the book, currently unavailable to third graders and younger, by claiming, “Our book has been banned because Tango has two dads.”
Receiving gobs of sympathy from the Times, which once again referred to the Florida law as “Don’t Say Gay,” the complaint from the authors argued the district “cited no legitimate pedagogical reason for its decision” to remove the book from the library and contended “the book is factually accurate, non-vulgar and non-obscene; Tango had previously stood on school library shelves; and Tango was restricted for illegitimate, narrowly partisan and political reasons.”
“The restriction of students’ access to Tango violates the First Amendment to the United States Constitution. By discriminating based on content and viewpoint, it infringes the authors’ right to freedom of expression,” they added.
As the suit painted sob stories of co-plaintiffs who were able to get themselves included in a filing from high-powered New York City attorneys, but unable to procure an 18-year-old picture book available on Amazon for less than $9, reactions to the suit couldn’t help but notice the vast overreach by authors.
“‘Restricting access.’ Same rhetoric Dems use when we don’t want to pay for their birth control,” one person said as another mocked, “LOL all books must be in all libraries or it’s unconstitutional. Basic stuff folks.”
Still, another called out what they suspected to be the real intent of the authors who had likely fallen off the radar so many years after the release of their book, “This has absolutely no chance of success. It is not illegal to curate a library. This is an ad.”
“Restricting access.” Same rhetoric Dems use when we don’t want to pay for their birth control. https://t.co/WHXQruK6Cw
— jimtreacher.substack.com (@jtLOL) June 20, 2023
When things don’t go your way, weaponize the government to get your way
— DANGER: DISINFORMATION (@RetiredCrimeDog) June 20, 2023
This has absolutely no chance of success. It is not illegal to curate a library. This is an ad.
— Billy – just a nobody (@Nomadhidinghere) June 20, 2023
“if you don’t give our gay book to children it’s the same asif you banned it”
— a senior aide (@SClaus1984) June 20, 2023
Much like the feigned outrage from poet Amanda Gorman who complained that her poem, “The Hill We Climb,” read at the inauguration of President Joe Biden, had been “banned” because it had been similarly restricted to only the older kids at a Miami Lakes, Florida elementary school, Lake County School District spokeswoman Sherri Owens clarified the status of “Tango” to the Times.
“We removed access to ‘And Tango Makes Three’ for our kindergarten through third-grade students in alignment with Florida House Bill 1557,” her statement said, “which at the time prohibited classroom instruction on sexual orientation or gender identity for those grade levels.”
Of course, the purpose of the suit isn’t to restore access just for the book about gay penguins which anyone with an internet connection can access via the numerous readings available on YouTube, it’s to get all of the deviant materials in front of the kindergartners.
Along with attempting to overturn the Parental Rights in Education law and its expansion to older grade levels, the plaintiffs sought relief through “a declaratory judgment that H.B. 1557 (a) is unconstitutional and therefore unenforceable to the extent that it requires or may be read to require the removal or restriction of any materials in public school libraries, or (b) is unconstitutionally vague and/or overbroad and therefore unenforceable.”
While at least one person saw an upside suggesting this opened the door for “a bible in every classroom!” more people saw cause for concern in the ongoing effort to groom children.
I’m so excited if they win; a bible in every classroom!
— Aaron Arnwine (@aaronarnwine) June 20, 2023
“See, I’m allowed to talk to your kids about sex.”
Good luck with that one.
— Diego Vega (@diegovegany) June 20, 2023
I guess Hollywood should sue for the removal of age restrictions on movies. Disgusting groomers!
— Bubu David (@BubuDavid1) June 20, 2023
Why do weirdos want to teach 4 – 8 year olds about sexuality?
— Carolina (@RealAppraiserSC) June 20, 2023
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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