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Moms for Liberty activists in the state of Florida are celebrating a victory for public decency after getting books containing graphic depictions of “violent rape, incest, pedophilia, [and] bestiality” removed from a school district.
The Leon County school district has removed “Dead End” by Jason Meyer, “Push” by Sapphire, “Doomed” by Chuck Palahniuk, “Lucky” by Alice Sebold, and “Me, Earl and the Dying Girl” by Jesse Andrews from the shelves of at least two high schools due to the persistence of Moms for Liberty activists in the region.
“The books that we are talking about are dark, depressive, utterly hopeless and damaging,” said Moms for Liberty activist Priscilla West during a school board meeting on Tuesday. “The board rightly recognized that graphic narrative accounts of violent rape, incest, pedophilia, bestiality should be removed immediately.”
Moms for Liberty activists pointed to inappropriate material depicted in these books, including a young girl being forcefully penetrated and urinated on, graphic descriptions of methamphetamine usage, a lurid tale of sexual relations between a father and daughter, and other illicit passages…
