‘This is about our children’; Parents STAND UP to fight porn in schools

Outraged parents in Dearborn, Michigan, spoke up at a school board meeting in October and on Monday threatened to sue the school for allegedly including pornographic books in its library.

Last month, Christian and Muslim parents came together to protest sexually explicit content in the Dearborn public schools. Much of the objectionable content happened to be contained in homosexual and transexual books, resulting in LGBTQ activist groups accusing the parents of trying to “erase” LGBTQ identities. 

Following the contentious meeting, the school began an internal book review and ultimately agreed to remove a few of the explicit books but keep others. The books they kept on the shelf included graphic sexual depictions and referenced sensitive topics such as rape. Parents, incensed at the school’s refusal to remove all sexually explicit content, hit back with a lawsuit.

“As you are well aware, these parents have expressed to you great concerns regarding books depicting/describing pornography, pedophilia, and/or other sexually explicit content in your school library. They are also concerned over your sexual education policy, enhanced by your own denial of their right to ‘opt-out’ of your district’s sexual education program, in direct violation of Michigan law” the lawsuit states.

“You can’t get any more explicit than seeing a woman naked with boobs and a crotch,” one Dearborn resident argued. “What is it going to take? What is your definition of explicit? I’m willing to be on a committee to help and we’ll have other parents because it should be a parent-driven committee, not staff. We pay you and you’re not listening to us.”

The media has repeatedly referred to these parents as “book banners,” however, it is reasonable that parents would object to their children being exposed to pornographic content–especially when it is being taught behind the parent’s backs.

“I’m a Christian. These are Muslims. They’re Methodist. I don’t care what religion they are,” one parent said of the crowd that gathered to protest in October. “We’re all here together — as one community. This is about our children. This has to do with children, all children, I don’t care if they’re black, blue, polka dot, or whatever. You’re failing miserably at protecting our children. And we have to fix this. We as a community are going to do something about it because we have the power of the people.”

Across America, parents are waking up to just how important it is to stand up and fight for their children’s education. This is arguably the most important responsibility of a self-governing people. 

Unfortunately, the federal government keeps pumping radical indoctrination into our schools and has even tried cracking down on parents who object. This is why, now more than ever, we need to rein in Washington, D.C.

Here at Convention of States Action, we are fighting daily to put the federal government back into its constitutionally-limited box using the tools the Founders left for us. To join our grassroots army, sign the Convention of States petition below!