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
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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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Earlier this week, Governor Pritzker and U.S. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona visited an after-school program at Fairview Elementary School in Springfield. This was just one stop on Cardona’s five-state midwestern bus tour to promote the Biden Administration’s new “Raise the Bar: Lead the World” education agenda.
Posted in CRT/Racism/BLM, Education, Faith, Federal, Marriage/Family/Culture
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Tagged Biden, Biden Administration, children, education, Governor Pritzker, Mary Miller, Miguel Cardona, Parents, Pritzker and Cardona’s Band-Aid for an Educational Hemorrhage, school, “Raise the Bar: Lead the World” education agenda.
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Two weeks ago, Governor Pritzker signed a bill, Public Act 103-0518, allowing any multiple-occupancy restroom to be identified as an all-gender multiple-occupancy restroom at the discretion of the building owner or leaseholder. Anyone of any “gender” could use it. Why was this law introduced, why did it pass?
Posted in Faith, Federal, How Did They Vote, Illinois Politics, Marriage/Family/Culture, Sexuality
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Tagged AASECT, After the Ball: How America Will Conquer Its Fear and Hatred of Gays in the 90s, Alfred Kinsey, All Gender Restroom, American Association of Sexuality Educators Counselors and Therapists, Barna, churches, elders, Forgetting How to Blush: United Methodism’s Compromise with the Sexual Revolution, Glide Foundation, Governor Pritzker, Harvard University, homosexuality, Hunter Madsen, Karen Booth, Laird Sutton, Marshall Kirk, National Sex Forum, NSF, Pastors, Public Act 103-0518, SAR, Senate Bill 0818, Sexual Attitude Readjustment, Sexual Behavior in the Human Female, Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, sexuality, Ted McIlvenna, The Overhauling of Straight America, transgender, University of Minnesota's College of Medicine
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