California to Criminalize Pushback Against LGBTQ School Books

California Gov. Gavin Newsom is going to sign a bill into law that will prevent schools from banning perverse LGBTQ books. But that’s not all it does.

Assembly Bill 1078 will also require schools to employ staff who encourage kids in homosexual behavior and who enable them to keep their incited behaviors a secret from parents. In other words, it not only gives the state more authority than parents over children’s personal lives, it also presents school staff the opportunity to groom children.

Opponents of the bill are outraged.

The Modesto Bee reported that Republican state Senator Rosilicie Ochoa Bogh said the bill takes away local control and gives it to the state, preventing parents from having a voice. She deflected woke slurs by pointing out that opponents are not against the bill because they’re opposed to diversity, but because they don’t want their children reading inappropriate books. “We’re not having the conversation at the core of the issue, which is age-appropriate materials,” she said.

But there is no age for which this kind of material is appropriate. As perverse, pornographic books such as Gender Queer and Body Music have sneaked into libraries of students in K-12 districts, parents have risen up to push back and pitch the filth. This is what the Left calls “book banning.”

To get a further glimpse of the lunacy that passes for reason in California, here is Assemblyman Corey Jackson, a Democrat from Morena Valley in Riverside County, who introduced the bill, extolling its supposed merits:

This is an opportunity to address the growing concern of book bans and curriculum censorship, which are sweeping through school districts across our nation, including school districts here in California. We cannot turn a blind eye to the erasure of historically marginalized communities who are bearing the brunt of these book bans. [0:45 – 1:09]

Last year, PBS News Hour identified Jackson as the California Legislature’s first openly “homosexual Black man.” His bill passed California’s Senate Education Committee in July. During debate leading up to that vote, committee members heard testimony from a number of parents opposed to the bill. Allie Snyder, mother of two young boys, gave a graphic description of what the legislation will accomplish, by citing a particular book in her son’s school library. You can witness her testimony beginning around the 15:00 mark in this video:

This Book Is Gay, currently in my 13-year-old son’s school library, will remain — a book that has nothing to do with being gay, and everything to do with grooming children to make them accessible to adults. Don’t believe me? I quote: “How to Use Sex Apps. 1. Upload a tiny picture of yourself to the app. 2. The app works out your location. 3. The app tells you where the nearest homosexuals are. 4. You then chat to them. 5. Because they are near, you can meet with them.”… This book, in my son’s school, explains sex acts in explicit detail in language targeted towards kids.

Yet Governor Newsom calls it “true freedom” for youngsters to have access to books like that.

In a tweet he sent last week celebrating passage of AB-1078 by the full Assembly, he actually claimed that it strengthens his state’s “Family Agenda,” and made the groomer-esque claim that “All students deserve the freedom to read and learn about the truth, the world, and themselves.”

What is a parent to do? Author and commentator James Lindsay answered that question with his own during his “Marxification of Education” Workshop last November:

This question is simple: If you knew you were sending your children to Maoist thought-reform camps for 35 hours a week, what would you do differently? If you were aware of the fact that you are sending your children to Communist thought-reform camps for 30 to 35 hours a week, what would you do differently? Because you are.