Law is necessary to protect our youth

A recent letter (Daily Bee, June 25) bemoans a parent’s right to censor inappropriate materials to minors in public libraries. This is obviously in reference to Idaho’s recently enacted “Children's School and Library Protection Act.” The bill’s focus is on the exposure of minors to obscene materials of a sexual and perverse nature. That someone would defend a minor’s access to these types of obscene materials is troubling.

Is this law a necessary step for the protection of minors? I think so, considering the current American landscape. As the queer agenda advances in our culture, so has its fingers in the arena of education. Inappropriate material is finding its way into school systems and public libraries. For example, the book “Lawn Boy,” a so-called coming-of-age novel, has pornographic depictions of 10-year-old boys having oral sex. As far as I can gather, it has been contested in 35 state school systems and only permanently banned by four of them.

The letter takes religious people to task and even seems to equate them with hate if they are in favor of censorship of these inappropriate materials. This isn’t about hate. It’s not about a person's race or sexual orientation. It’s about the safety of minors. I have a feeling there are a lot of non-religious people who are also opposed to a minor’s exposure to these materials.

Queer ideology has no place in the education system. Government education needs to get their hands out of the kids' pants and leave sex education to the parents.

TIM KNAPP

Clark Fork