Tag Archives: Gender Queer
Local Focus
Why are local elections so uninteresting to voters? Local elections in Illinois generally draw about 16% of registered voters. This is compared to the average turnout over the last 20 years for presidential elections in Illinois of 63% and the average turnout in the off-year elections of 44%.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Pornography, Sexuality
Tagged ALA, children, Culture, election, family, Gender Queer, Illinois, Lawn Boy, libraries, local election, Lolita, Presidential election, This Book is Gay, Vladimir Nabokov
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Different Perspectives?
Several essential characteristics separate humans from other mammals. The most significant among them is our complex reasoning ability. We can solve problems throughout the full range of our current awareness. We have a powerful capability to observe, collect, and analyze facts. We can formulate theories and design meticulous studies to test them out. And we can debate the meaning of the findings of those studies.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Faith, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Pornography, Religious Liberty, Sexuality
Tagged 1st Amendment, All Boys aren’t Blue, American Library Association, book bans, child exploitation, children, Crank, Different Perspectives?, DSM-5, Gender Queer, Governor Pritzker, HB 2789, It’s Perfectly Normal, J.B. Pritzker, Jack Rigert, John Paul II Renewal Center, Kate Buckson, LGBT, nationalism, St. Charles Public Library
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Fictional Book Bans
Alexi Giannoulias, Illinois Secretary of State, recently testified before a U.S. Senate Committee on the issue of how to determine what books belong in libraries and who determines what stays and what goes. Under questioning by Senator John Kennedy (R-LA), Giannoulias found himself at a loss for words after Kennedy read obscene passages from two controversial books, Gender Queer and All Boys Aren’t Blue, often found in public and school libraries.
Posted in Child Exploitation, Education, Federal, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Pornography, Sexuality
Tagged Access to Library Resources and Services for Minors, ALA, ALA Bill of Rights, Alexi Giannoulias, All Boys aren’t Blue, American Library Association’s Bill of Rights, child exploitation, Fictional Book Bans, Gender Queer, Governor Pritzker, HB2789, Illinois Secretary of State, Interpretations of the Library Bill of Rights, libraries, minors, pornography
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Downers Grove Church Hosts Visit from “Trans” Santa for Children
In a post on a Facebook page called “Friends of District 58 in Downers Grove,” someone posted an ad for an upcoming visit from “Trans Santa and Dr. Claus” for little ones at the heretical First United Methodist Church of Downers Grove.
Posted in Marriage/Family/Culture
Tagged Downers Grove, Elmhurst Pride Collective, Friends of District 58, Gender Queer, Hank Thiele, Maia Kobabe, Trans Santa
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Downers Grove High Schools, Obscene Books, Biased Journalism
Chicago Sun-Times education reporter Nader Issa offers a classic example of biased opinion writing masquerading as objective reporting in his “news” narratives about a recent controversy in the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove over an obscene “graphic memoir.” The memoir, titled Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe, may sound familiar to IFI readers. I wrote this about her memoir in early August 2021:
…Maia Kobabe, author of Gender Queer: A Memoir, which is carried in high school libraries, tells the peculiar tale of her journey to her “identity” as a genderqueer, asexual woman with a lesbian aunt and a
Posted in Education, Media Watch
Tagged Chicago Sun-Times, Dan Savage, Gender Queer, Hank Thiele, Josiah Poynter, Maia Kobabe, Nader Issa, Sean Casten
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Taxpayer-Funded Libraries Defend Obscenity, Child Corruption and Censorship
How many times have conservatives heard “progressives” claim that the controversial, obscene material they want taught to children is “age-appropriate”?
Government school teachers who are paid by the public want absolute autonomy and absolute anonymity, and that is why we now have adults introducing obscene material to other people’s children.
Government school teachers who are paid by the public want absolute autonomy and absolute anonymity, and that is why we now have adults introducing obscene material to other people’s children.
Posted in Education, Pornography
Tagged Abigail Shrier, ALA, American Library Association, Banned Books Week, Collection Development Policies, Denise Shick, Gender Queer, Irreparable Damage by Wall Street Journal, I’m Glad God Made Me a Girl, Maia Kobabe, Office for Intellectual Freedom, Ryan T. Anderson, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, When Harry Became Sally
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