Bookworm Attacks - By Rick McKee
Bookworm Attacks – By Rick McKee

Saving Our Kids

– Making Sense by Michael Reagan –

Thank God for Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana.

I wish every major television and radio network in the country had covered what the smart and colorful Republican did in the Senate this week.

As part of a hearing looking into the alleged threat to freedom posed by parents who want to have sexually explicit gay and trans books removed from their school libraries, Kennedy bravely quoted some choice excerpts from two of the books.

While he read out loud from “All Boys Aren’t Blue” and “Gender Queer,” every adult in the room with a brain and a lick of common sense squirmed uncomfortably in their seats.

Kennedy and other senators of both parties agreed that the sleaze he read was not fit for young children – or any non-adult.

But unless you watch Fox News or other conservative TV or radio places, you did not hear Kennedy’s graphic descriptions repeated or even described in detail.

The mainstream electronic news media – CBS, CNN, NPR, PBS, etc., etc. – ignored Kennedy’s readings. The partisans running the New York Times didn’t even cover the hearing.

That kind of information blackout is nothing new to conservatives.

The left-wing media can always be counted on to not tell their audiences what is actually written in the quasi-pornographic LGBT books that parents around the country are criticizing.

Their partisan reporters and pundits don’t even bother to read the books or try to defend them.

They just immediately slime the concerned parents and Republicans as dangerous book burners and political extremists. Or, hypocritically, they’ll criticize an angry mother for talking dirty at her local school board meeting.

It’s part of the upside-down political insanity of our times that parents are now being told they are not allowed to have sexually graphic books removed from their own public schools.

So how can parents protect their school kids from the left’s indoctrination campaign – short of homeschooling them or moving to Portugal?

Without a national political revolution that sweeps away the leftists and wackos running our governments and ruining our public schools, it looks impossible – especially out here in the crazy, mismanaged, and hyper-sexed state of California.

For example, last week, a California judge ruled against the school district in Chino that had issued a policy saying parents had to be informed if their kids had changed their gender identities or pronouns in school.

Earlier this week, the mayor of Burbank proudly defended himself for raising money at a private party by having himself spanked on camera by a drag queen.

The liberal media naturally thought what the mayor did was very cool, of course, and Democrats defended him.

And, of course, they claimed the secret video — seen by more than 8 million people so far – was being used by Republicans as clickbait to “promote an agenda of fear, homophobia, transphobia, and bigotry.”

The latest sex-and-gender idiocy dreamed up by the people in charge of the state of California is the declaration that next August will be officially recognized as Transgender History Month.

Isn’t that great?

I was already looking forward to June of 2024, the state’s second annual “LGBTQ+ Pride Month.”

All these stupid things happening in California make me feel sometimes like I’m living in Sodom and Gomorrah — run by insane leftwing Democrats. It’s too bad I don’t know someone important and powerful who can turn a few hundred of them into pillars of salt.

Copyright 2023 Michael Reagan, distributed exclusively by Cagle Cartoons newspaper syndicate.

Michael Reagan, the son of President Ronald Reagan, is an author, speaker and president of the Reagan Legacy Foundation. Send comments to reagan@caglecartoons.com and follow @reaganworld on Twitter.

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Michael Reagan
Michael is the son of former President Ronald Reagan and Academy Award-Winning actress, Jane Wyman. He authored many successful books, including his best-selling autobiography, “On the Outside Looking In,” and “The Common Sense of An Uncommon Man: The Wit, Wisdom and Eternal Optimism of Ronald Reagan.” His book “Twice Adopted” is based on his personal story while his latest book “The New Reagan Revolution” reveals new insights into the life, thoughts, and actions of the man who changed the world during the 1980s. Throughout his career, Michael has taken time to support numerous charitable organizations. In addition to his role as president of The Reagan Legacy Foundation, he serves on the board of The John Douglas French Alzheimer's Foundation and is a board member and the national spokesperson for My Stuff Bags Foundation, a unique program that addresses some of the immediate physical and emotional needs of children rescued from abuse and neglect. In 2005, he established the Michael Reagan Center for Advocacy and Research in partnership with Arrow Child and Family Ministries. The center operates from a Christian worldview and conducts research in order to effectively advocate for public policies that benefit the safety, stability, and well-being of children and families, particularly those served by public and private child welfare systems. Michael has raised millions of dollars for many other notable charities including the United States Olympic Team, Cystic Fibrosis, Juvenile Diabetes Foundations, the Statue of Liberty Restoration Fund, the Santa Barbara and San Diego Navy Leagues, and the San Diego Armed Services YMCA. Michael has been married for 35 years to Colleen and they have two children – daughter Ashley, a third-grade teacher, and son Cameron, who is a travel agent.

1 COMMENT

  1. What Senator John Kennedy read in the senate hearing from “All Boys Aren’t Blue” was outrageously sexual in my opinion. Some at the hearing said the excerpt was not sexual but was depicting a rape scene. This is a distinction without a difference. It was a graphic sexual act whether done based on love or hate. I don’t know what other books are in school libraries that depict heterosexuality as explicitly as was described in this book’s homosexual act, but I don’t think any books that are this sexually explicit should be in public schools. Kids don’t need to be educated this explicitly about sexual acts in our schools in my opinion. I’m sure many others will disagree with me. Frankly, with the amount of sexual content available everywhere currently, I am sure kids will get similar information anyway, but I still don’t think our tax dollars should go to provide it. As for the value of the book otherwise, it’s perhaps unfortunate that the author had to include such a graphic description that has created such a stir in what otherwise could have been a worthwile story for young people. During the hearing, there was a comparison of this book to “To Catch A Mockingbird” and that book’s rape scene. I certainly don’t remember that rape scene being so graphic, but perhaps I missed something.

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