From WWW.FOXNEWS.COM
One of the largest Catholic advocacy groups in the nation is encouraging parents and concerned citizens to remove sexualized books for children at their local libraries, arguing taxpayer-funded institutions shouldn’t provide “pornography” to children.
CatholicVote launched its second annual “Hide the Pride” event June 1, to coincide with libraries and businesses across the country prominently displaying rainbow flags and pro-LGBTQ content for gay Pride Month. Fox News Digital previously reported how dozens of libraries in blue states have ramped up Pride celebrations and content for children this year.
“Hide the Pride” instructs parents to sign a letter explaining why they object to these books, empty the Pride book displays, check the books out, and then leave the letter with a librarian. CatholicVote provides a sample letter to print and a lengthy list of children’s books centered on sexuality and gender identity.
The group’s president Brian Burch told Fox News Digital the movement is intended to rally parents, people of faith and concerned Americans to “push back against this assault on childhood innocence.”
Libraries used to be family-friendly places where everyone was welcome, Burch said, but “regrettably” they now proudly display “totally inappropriate and pornographic” content.
Burch said he expects this year’s “Hide the Pride’” to be significantly bigger due to the cultural backlash against companies like Bud Light and Target.
“I think it’s getting bigger because people are more aware of the ways in which this gay rights push is pushing parents and public spaces much further than they previously had,” Burch said.
“…Americans are waking up to, this is no longer a movement about love is love and just equality and tolerance. It’s about forcing all Americans to surrender their traditional moral beliefs and to accept some of the more extreme elements,” he told Fox News Digital. “The Target and Bud Light boycott only prove our point that this is an extremely divisive movement that is pushing too far.”
The backlash against woke companies shows Christians “that they don’t have to sit down and surrender to the radical rainbow cult,” CatholicVote Communications Director Joshua Mercer added in a press release.
The group’s president said libraries weren’t respecting their communities or taxpayers when they push divisive politics on gender and sexuality.
“You know, we wouldn’t use libraries for any other big political propaganda effort. We don’t do it on abortion. We don’t do it on immigration. But somehow this has become this acceptable political, propaganda scheme and especially for children where it’s where it’s most inappropriate,” he argued…. (Read more)
