OPINION: 'I appreciate Sen. Wadsack’s efforts to protect children, but let’s hope her misguided efforts fail,' writes John Halliday, an Oro Valley resident and retired director of a regional public library system in Virginia.
I’m a prude. I never use four-letter words. Even ordering chicken breast seems to me somewhat immodest. So I understand why state Sen. Justine Wadsack is pushing SB1700 to get books with sexual content out of school libraries. Her bill is intended to protect “children who are innocent” and to “hold onto that innocence they have.” But her bill is seriously flawed, dangerous to the well-being of some children, potentially expensive, and simply unnecessary.
Even Sen. Wadsack’s newspaper comment that children “don’t need to be reading about their best friend’s erection” could be the target of censors. We all know the senator wasn’t referring to erections of Legos or building blocks. She was referring to penises. Of the hundreds of complaints I’ve heard about library books, most of them involved a penis in one way or another. One example is “In the Night Kitchen” by the famous children’s author of “Where the Wild Things Are,” Maurice Sendak.
Sen. Wadsack’s current bill addresses books that contain sex-related issues. Under her bill, even The Holy Bible could be removed from schools. Rape, incest, sodomy, masturbation, and other clearly sexual issues are part of The Bible. Perhaps more troublesome, if SB1700 is successful, Sen. Wadsack may use that precedent for future legislation banning other books that might make some people uncomfortable.
Who, in addition to taxpayers, would be harmed if SB1700 becomes law? Just our children. They would be presented with book collections that fail to reflect the realities of the world as they already know it. Kids know what’s going on and Sen. Wadsack’s bill isn’t going to change that. Weakening school libraries will only encourage children to seek other sources to meet their reading and informational needs.
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