Resource Book Available In Tennessee High School Teaches Students How To Argue With “Homophobic Christians”

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The Tennessee Conservative [By Paula Gomes] –

Found in a Clarksville High School as a “resource” book, This Book is Gay by Juno Dawson tells students “How to Argue with a Christian” and that “straight people have anal sex all the time too.” According to the author, certain people in the Bible were gay and the Quran – the holy book of Islam – does not “explicitly forbid homosexual behavior.”

According to Capitol Resource Institute, over 40 states, including Tennessee, have laws that guarantee “educational obscenity exemptions” in public schools. This means that superintendents, principals, teachers, and school librarians can provide and promote sexually explicit programs and materials for K-12 students without fear of prosecution.

Earlier this year, one district in Tennessee staged a 90-minute assembly in a high school entitled “Hot, Sexy, and Safer.” According to Mary E. McAlister, Senior Counsel with the Child and Parental Rights Campaign, the assembly included sexually explicit monologues, statements about having a “group sexual experience”, as well as “advocacy for and approval of oral sex, masturbation, homosexual sexual activity, and simulated masturbation.” 

Capitol Resource Institute (CRI) says, “In addition to objectionable classroom materials and mandatory events like the one just described, school libraries represent ground zero in the battle to prevent pornography and other forms of obscenity from infiltrating K-12 schools.”

In this year’s legislative session, conservative parents advocated to remove the exception to Title 39 Obscenity Laws in Tennessee schools. House Bill 1944 (without amendments) would have addressed what conservatives believe to be the real problem regarding inappropriate content in books that are available to school students. The teacher and library unions lobbied against the bill and the Tennessee General Assembly passed the Age Appropriate Materials Act instead. This new law went into effect at the beginning of the current school year. It does not ban any book but requires schools to catalog all books in the school library and make that inventory list available online for parents.

CRI has chosen to purchase several books that sit on the shelves in Tennessee school libraries that parents may not be aware of in order to alert them of the questionable content readily available to their children. The first book CRI has highlighted is This Book is Gay, by Juno Dawson.

The book addresses anal sex, gender fluidity, and “homophobic Christians” – topics that CRI says are “foundational” to the radical LGBTQ+ agenda and “clearly demonstrate the extent to which progressives will go to indoctrinate our kids.”

CRI Executive Director Karen England encourages parents to become aware of what is happening in their districts, to speak to district personnel and request, in writing, the policies on sexually explicit material and events. 

“It is highly likely that your school library already offers sexually explicit material, even for very young students, so it is imperative that you become involved!” says England.

Over the next several weeks, CRI will unveil excerpts from additional books that allow, and even promote, obscenity in the school setting. “As much as it pained us to purchase these materials, we bought them so you don’t have to,” says England.

About the Author: Paula Gomes is a Tennessee resident and reporter for The Tennessee Conservative. You can reach Paula at paula@tennesseeconservativenews.com.