VIDEO: Virginia School Board Member Sworn In on Stack of So-Called 'Banned' Children's Porn

A Fairfax County, Virginia, school board member on Wednesday chose to be sworn in for his second term on a stack of pornographic books that have been the source of controversy for obvious reasons: the sexually explicit content is inappropriate for children. This man is sending a message by taking this unorthodox approach to swearing in to an educational position. I’ve been sounding the alarm, yet too many have been asleep. This should be an awakener. In the words of the old Verizon commercial: “Can you hear me now?” A man who has taken his oath as a school board member on a stack of sexually explicit, groom-the-kids, pornographic books ain’t playing. He means business. Don’t say you didn’t know; he just showed you.

Karl Frisch is leaving no room for interpretation. The sexualization and grooming of children, which is spreading like a pandemic, is orchestrated, relentless, and brazen. The man just told you when he put one hand on those books, which are among the most challenged, and lifted his other to the heavens that he has committed himself to stand for this evil agenda.

Those who stand with him want you to believe that those who oppose this filth in school and public libraries do so because they are anti-LGBTQ book banners. Frankly, I believe all children should be protected from pornographic, hypersexualized, and obscene material, and there are laws regarding this. They are children, after all, not tools to push someone’s sexual fantasy or world agenda. The “they just hate the LGBTQ folks” claim is bogus. Why are we going after books with that kind of content? Well, it seems to me the books that push explicit sexual content and images on children tend to fit into that category. Don’t be mad at those of us who oppose it; we didn’t write the material. Whether straight or gay, children are children, and they don’t deserve to have their innocence robbed. I will fight for the child identifying as gay or trans as much as I will fight for the straight child. And I will fight against the agenda to groom any child. If the only defense for handing out filth to kids is that I must be a hater, it simply demonstrates that these people have no better argument against the abuse they are heaping on children.

The books Frisch reportedly took the school board oath on are Gender Queer, Lawn Boy (by Jonathan Evison, not Gary Paulsen), Flamer, All Boys Aren’t Blue, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower. I have done extensive reporting on Gender Queer and some on a book called This Book Is Gay, including the ongoing battle with the Cape Girardeau Public Library in Cape Girardeau, Missouri. I have since become acquainted with All Boys Aren’t Blue, which parades around like literature for youth, when it is, to be clear, pornographic. I’ve looked up Lawn Boy, Flamer, and The Perks of Being a Wallflower, but I am not as knowledgeable about their content, except it only took a little research to discover that they, too, are challenged for their sexually explicit content.

The appeal to the local public library is simple: Create a policy that requires children to have parental permission to take out books that any reasonable individual would deem inappropriate, in addition to taking sexually explicit books out of the teen and children sections. Books, of course, that violate the law, should not be in the library at all. I know. I know. Even some well-meaning people who despise these books won’t say “remove them from the library” out of fear of being labeled a book banner, but I have no such fear. Look, I have better things to do than just seek to ban books all willy-nilly, so that’s not my aim. What I do seek is for folks entrusted with other people’s children to follow the law, to take that privilege and responsibility seriously, and not act in a manner that ruins children.