Libraries and Community Values

Libraries and Community Values

Contributed by Larry Wood

In Palmer, Alaska, very recently, there was a meeting regarding the need to restrict access for certain books in the public  library.  Books which lack any discernable literature, art or educational value that promote a deviant and unhealthy sexual lifestyle for minors. This is all part of the communists’ assault on the traditional family.
Such restriction is not a 1st Amendment issue.  It is a community standards issue and an issue of protecting minors from harmful materials. The books at issue are sexually explicit in describing sexual behavior that is not acceptable in this society and is harmful to minors.

The controversy began with these books being promoted in our schools as educational materials, and readily accessible by minors under the age of 18. Only the MSSD School Board and a few brave parents have acted in defense of our kids in removal from schools.  Now, public libraries have become the focus.
You don’t see pornographic magazines at the checkout counter in grocery stores for the very same reason that these books and materials should not be accessible to minors in a school, school library or public library.
The only issue of concern should be the prevention of harm to children as the community priority to ensure minors are not exposed to the filth being promoted as “educational” by librarians, educators, Dem politicians, and Republicans in name only (RINOs). 

Any time an adult encourages a child to keep a “secret” regarding sex anything from parents, not to mention the outright sexual experimentation being performed upon minors without parental knowledge, our law enforcement should be making arrests.  In fact, given the harm of “gender affirming care” and the aggressiveness demonstrated by those advocating the use of these pornographic books, such pursuit should be aggressive and sustained by law enforcement until this scourge is removed from our communities, not just the schools and libraries.  This includes those medical practitioners and mental health professionals who work to convince minors to do the unthinkable by destroying their bodies.  What ever happened to “do no harm”?

An adult acting to promote this deviant behavior in today’s political environment may not be acting with a prurient interest in having sex with a minor but acting to support an ideological goal of destroying the traditional family. Whether there is a prurient interest or not, anyone promoting or supporting the use of these books and materials to indoctrinate minors needs to be subject to criminal liability. There is little doubt that these books comprise indecent materials harmful to minors.  The question is, why has there been not one criminal complaint filed under AS 11.61.128 Distribution of Indecent Materials to Minors?  These materials are what is described under that statute as being harmful to minors.

AS 11.41.436 (2) Sexual Abuse of a Minor in the Second Degree is also applicable to the proponents of minors being able to access the books and materials at issue.  These materials promote and encourage  sexual contact and aberrant sexual conduct and lifestyles by a minor with adults and other minors.  Violation of this statute is a Class B Felony. These books are directed at minors, not adults. Age restriction for access to these materials is absolutely necessary.

However, I have never seen an “adults only” section in a public or school library.  These books and materials should be barred from schools and public libraries.  If a pervert wants such materials, then they are free to buy them. Any violation by a teacher, librarian, school staff, or other person of authority over the child warrants a Class A Felony jeopardy, because of that person’s undue influence and authority.
Alaska statutes should protect minors until 18 years of age, regardless of the age of consent. As has been done in the UK, Florida and Tennessee, gender affirming care for minors should be banned for obvious reasons.

Where are the collective voices of our religious leaders and elected officials at every level of government in condemning these materials?  Where is their support for protecting the kids? Our Governor and the Legislature need to grow a set of cajónes and protect the kids. Have Alaska’s community and societal standards dropped so low so as to allow the open grooming of minors under the guise of education for them to be used as sex toys for pedophiles?

Have our public libraries become the local sex shops? We don’t need committees; we need the laws enforced. Therefore, why haven’t there been any arrests, Governor Mike Dunleavy?