Truth hurts, don’t it?
A Florida mom was stopped while addressing her local school board after showing a poster that depicted a graphic sex scene image taken from a book that was available for local high school students to check out of their school library. Because God forbid the truth get out and these school boards are held accountable for their grooming behavior.
Julie Gebhards, of Tampa, attended the Hillsborough County Public Schools school board meeting on October 17. Before she began, she advised audience members with children to leave the room as they shouldn’t hear the graphic content in the books. (Same goes for those of you reading this. Viewer discretion is advised.)
Gebhards began her speech by reading from the contents of the graphic novel (no pun intended) “Blankets” by Craig Thompson.
“Church camp is the best place to score pussy,” she began, according to a report from the New York Post.
“Did you feel up her titties?” another part of the book read.
Gebhards also indicated that the book had images of “masturbation, naked boys peeing on each other, and sexual assault of a child.” She also said it included references to “erections, breast fondling, biting, tasting, oral copulation, stripping off clothes in heated passion, 22 images of the aroused couple, [and] 10 images of her naked breasts," calling it “shameful” and “degrading” that such a book was not only allowed in school libraries but “unanimously" approved by the school board.
Gephard kept looking back toward the audience out of worry that some kids were still in the room. When she’d initially asked for a minute for the children to leave, the board insisted that she better start her speech as she was only getting two total minutes.
At another point in her speech, after she said, “I imagine we’re all uncomfortable now,” Gebhard held up a large image of two people in bed, one of which was a female with her breasts exposed, taken from the book. Shortly after she unveiled the image, a cop that was standing nearby came toward Gebhard, took her poster and folded it up.
If this content is too graphic for the school board and adult audience members to see and hear about, why is it allowed to not only appear but be promoted in schools for students to access?
After Gebhard was done speaking, Board Chair Nadia Combs quickly moved on to the next speaker and said, “Next speaker. No one is allowed to bring displays.”
“This is in a library book in your classrooms,” Gebhard replied as she was leaving the podium.
Gebhard is an active member in the fight against pornography in children's schools has spoken at many school boards against disturbing, indoctrinating, and inappropriate content in kids schools. In an exclusive correspondence with the Media Research Center, Julie expressed how important it is to protect young kids from concepts like these.
It is vitally important to protect young minds from sexually explicit content. There are land mines of pornography in school libraries. Sex is one of the most powerful weapons known to man- and if you hook young, undeveloped minds on these images and narrative accounts of sex, you are perpetuating the reality of an abberantly sex-saturated culture. Our current culture clearly harms young people and makes them vulnerable to many evils (trafficking, becoming a sexual predator, dangerous sexual behaviors to name a few). It’s one thing when kids find this content illicitly through their phones; it’s quite another when they find it admitted into a school library by grown-ups or “experts”. Suddenly it has a stamp of approval, and this aberrant, violent, and even simple sexual behavior seems “normal”-for children. This culture has an a-moralizing impact on young people. Schools should never find themselves doing the same thing through school library books.
It’s a bummer that she has to dedicate so much time to this cause, but until school boards start recognizing that this content has no place in schools, people like Gebhard are going to have to continue exposing the inappropriate content in these books.
