I don’t know what this book is, but yeah, if it has sexual content in it, it doesn’t belong in a junior high library. If the book simply depicts a gay relationship between consenting adults and is without sexual content, it’s stupid to ban it pure and simple.
Agreed, but I don't think that the fact that it depicts a gay relationship between consenting adults is a reason to shelve it, if it has no other value.
The biggest problem i have with this is that if a book depicted sexual content in a heterosexual relationship, republicans in general would really not give a shit. Like if asked, they would say the book should be banned; but otherwise they would not be throwing the tantrums about it.
I don't know, about that, maybe you're right. I'm not sure that there even are such books in school libraries, just as there are no heterosexual men taking children to heterosexual themed strip shows.
There wouldn’t be this huge rightwing media backlash. They would just say “okay ban it. Problem solved l guess.” They would not be endlessly talking about ir.
Maybe if some Junior High football coach took his boys out for a night of lap dances, we could test your theory. But that doesn't happen, only the LGBT-Q activist teachers do things like that.
Here's what I think would happen if a coach did that: The conservatives would not throw a tantrum. They would calmly say "what is that coach thinking? That was foolish. Fire him, unless he had a really good season last year! Either way, make sure that doesn't happen again."
The school district would say, "Yes, we had no idea he was doing that and it has been addressed with him." Then it wouldn't happen again.
The tantrums you speak of come in when school boards use off duty police as security and to silence parents at board meetings, when they ignore parent concerns on the grounds that the parents do not have advanced degrees in education, and when they dox parents to retaliate for parents complaining.