We recently presented “Stolen Innocence” to a standing room only crowd of parents and grandparents of school age children at the St. Charles Public Library, in the far west suburbs of Chicago. This presentation instructs parents in ways to research the books available in their children’s public-school library. It also shares how to identify books that include pornography or other material they may deem inappropriate for their own children.

For our effort, we received a letter the very next day from the head of the St. Charles Public Library banning us and canceling the upcoming dates that we scheduled there. You may be surprised at this action, but parents who have spoken out against pornography and the sexualization of children at other libraries and school board meetings are not surprised. We will be following up with the library. In the meantime. I encourage you to read Thomas Hampson’s article “What’s a Library For?”

After our cancelation, we followed up with parents who have joined us in our research efforts. Here is just a tiny sampling of the hundreds of books we uncovered that are now flooding our public-school libraries.

WARNING! While these books are available for children, adults may find them quite offensive!

1. It’s Perfectly Normal – Recommended for Age 10 and up, this book was a popular find. Here is an excerpt from the chapter on masturbation.

“Kids, teenagers, and grown-ups too experience sexy feelings when they masturbate…Some people think that masturbation is wrong or harmful. And some religions call masturbation a sin. But masturbating cannot hurt you…whether you masturbate or not is your choice. Masturbating is perfectly normal.”

The chapter then goes on to describe in detail how to masturbate. I will spare you the details, but the question you should ask yourself is, “at what age was I planning to teach my children the fine art of masturbating?”

Click the link to learn more: Ratedbooks.org It’s Perfectly Normal

2. Beyond Magenta: Transgender Teens Speak Out Here is the link

The above is a popular middle school library book: Click on the link to rea d a summary of concerns and some excerpts from the book and answer this question for me. “Exactly why does a book like this need to be in an elementary school library?”

Finally for a stomach-churning experience and a popular High School Library book:

3. All Boys Aren’t Blue Here is the link. I have to hand it to the author. This book leaves no stone unturned when it comes to undermining the morality, principles and virtues parents may have instilled in their children. The summary of concerns include: sexual nudity; sexual activities including sexual assault; alternate gender ideologies; profanity and derogatory terms; alcohol and drug use; and controversial racial commentary.

Tom Hampson and I, in our work to protect childhood innocence. realize that the scope of the problem has grown so big that our only hope is for enough parents to awaken to the harm posed to their children by the public school system and the American Library Association. They must get actively involved in their children’s education. Parents need to understand that children are being targeted because tearing down and then transforming the family, our culture, and our country is the goal of those who are promoting these books.

Tom and I have both written and spoken about this extensively, so I will not repeat it here, except to say that those who target children know that children by nature are trusting, innocent, and open vessels. This makes them easy targets. The sexual indoctrination, exploitation and grooming of children taking place on a mass scale in the public school system is particularly disturbing.

Parents cannot stand by any longer and allow their children to be sent out like lambs to the slaughter. We know that when children are loved and nurtured, educated in truth and virtue, they express their irresistible joy as only children can. Aware of this, parent-led initiatives have pushed many states to offer school choice options. Learn more about school choice at the American Federation for Children.

Additionally, some states, like Utah, are going further and calling pornography “a public health crisis.” Read the original Resolution S.C.R.9 for a list of harms done to children, women and the broader culture.

A healthy culture must put the education of children and the welfare of families at its center. For culture must serve the human person and – with support of the Church, which adds supernatural grace – can work to elevate what is human into an appreciation of the transcendentals — of all that is true, good, and beautiful.

Our culture has been hijacked and debased and is no longer a culture of life, but has become, quite literally, a culture of death. We live in a culture that no longer seeks what is true, good, and beautiful, but cancels the truth, distorts what is good, and profanes the beautiful. In our so-called modern era, no institution has been as severely attacked as marriage and the family. These attacks now originate from even the highest political offices in our country and across the world where the mass murder of the unborn and the sexual grooming of children taking place in our educational systems, is effectively stripping the innocence of children as young as two and three.

In his encyclical Evangelium Vitae, John Paul II wrote, “It is an illusion to think we can build a true culture of human life if we do not help the young to accept and experience sexuality and love and the whole of life according to their true meaning and in their close inter-connection.”

The sexual embrace is the foundation stone of life itself. The family—and, in turn, culture itself—springs from this embrace. “In short, as sex goes, so go marriage and the family. As marriage and the family go, so goes civilization.”—Christopher West.

Jack Rigert

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