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‘Everywhere Babies,’ a picture book celebrating infants, just got banned

j brown's body said:
"The inspiration for the popular children’s picture book “Everywhere Babies” came to author Susan Meyers more than 25 years ago, after the birth of her first grandchild. It was around Christmas, she recalls, and she kept seeing Nativity scenes everywhere — baby Jesus embraced by his doting mother, surrounded by kindly visitors. Meyers, deeply smitten with her 5-month-old grandson, was struck by the everyday, extraordinary miracle of babies in their earliest months of life, how their development touches the lives of everyone around them. So she decided to write about it. Since its publication in 2001, “Everywhere Babies” — a whimsical, lyrical ode to infancy, illustrated by Caldecott Medal-winning illustrator Marla Frazee — has become a staple of family bookshelves, a common recommendation in new parent groups, and a celebrated title on Best Books lists.

But for the first time in its history, “Everywhere Babies” was featured this week on an entirely different kind of list: The book was among dozens of works recently banned from public school libraries in Walton County, Fla. School district officials confirmed the removal of the books to WJHG-TV in Florida. Walton County School Superintendent Russell Hughes told the outlet that it was “necessary in this moment for me to make that decision and I did it for just a welfare of all involved, including our constituents, our teachers, and our students.”"

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I'm beginning to pity the Republican oppressors with their tragically stunted emotional development. Their abuse of power is horrifying.
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If a black baby is in it then it is CRT.
 
So.....this is stupid..good job Florida for being you.
 
Josie said:
If a school district makes a call like this, what do you think should happen (if anything)?
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I think local booksellers should raise the price of the book. They'll make good money. As soon as a book is banned readership rises dramatically.
 
Loulit01 said:
Florida is turning into DeSantis' own little fiefdom. Can you say "demagogue?" I knew that you could.
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And Floridians will probably vote him right back into office. The Florida today isn't the one I used to know -- it's becoming a right-wing Orwellian hellhole.
 
Everywhere Babies was banned in Florida because it depicts a gay couple in the story.
 
SkyChief said:
Everywhere Babies was banned because it depicts a gay couple in the story.
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Disgusting that its grounds for banning a book. What does that tell kids who have gay parents or other family members?
 
snakestretcher said:
Why? It's what most of us, including you, probably did. Or do you find breast-feeding offensive for some obscure reason?
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Nope. I don’t think books with bare tits belong in an elementary school library.
 
j brown's body said:
Disgusting that its grounds for banning a book. What does that tell kids who have gay parents or other family members?
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It tells them that Walton County School District doesn't want LGBTQ issues addressed in its schools. (?)
 
SkyChief said:
Everywhere Babies was banned in Florida because it depicts a gay couple in the story.
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Kids who have gay parents should grow up to be ashamed of their families.
 
j brown's body said:
There is a picture of two men, one, with his arm over the shoulder of another. (deviously subtle, don't you thinks?)

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VanceMack said:
Maybe they thought that image was hurtful to the gay couples that cant have babies...or to the men pretending to be women that also cant have babies. I mean...really....the whole subject of babies is a delicate one where leftists are concerned. I dont suppose the book included colorful drawing of the babies that the leftists celebrate being slaughtered.
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Wt actual f? :ROFLMAO:
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I'm outraged! :mad:
 
Josie said:
Nope. I don’t think books with bare tits belong in an elementary school library.
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Exactly. That's only for the gigantic porn industry in the South.
 
SkyChief said:
It tells them that Walton County School District doesn't want LGBTQ issues addressed in its schools. (?)
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Existing is an "issue?" That's absurd.

It erases them from the community.

Reminds one of the Nazi's book burnings - not wanting the Jewish issue addressed in schools.
 
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j brown's body said:
Existing is an "issue?" That's absurd.

It erases them from the community.
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I'm not defending their rationale - - just offering my hypothesis as to why they banned the book.

I doubt breast-feeding had anything to do with the ban.
 
j brown's body said:
If the baby is suckling, it isn't showing "bare tits." Do you honestly think an exposed breast is a bad thing?
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No. I don’t think it’s necessary for a kid’s picture book to show it.
 
SkyChief said:
I'm not defending their rationale - - just offering my hypothesis as to why they banned the book.

I doubt breast-feeding had anything to do with the ban.
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Nope; probably simply some throwback 'christian' conservatives who always need something to be outraged about, however innocuous it is.
 
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