'Morally toxic' Scholastic books is the latest target of the religious right

[DonViejo]

By David Reddish · Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Remember One Million Moms, the right-wing nut job organization–comprised of far less than a million moms, mind you–that tried to boycott JC Penny for hiring Ellen DeGeneres as a celebrity spokesperson? Or that tried to boycott Campbell’s soup for featuring an ad with two dads? Or that argued comic books make men gay? Or that suggested GEICO promoted bestiality in its ads featuring a pig? Yeah, they still haven’t found a new hobby.

One Million Moms has announced a new target this week: children’s books. The group, which features only 180,000 followers on Facebook, many of them men, has declared war on kiddie book publisher Scholastic (home of Harry Potter in the US) for offering a handful of books featuring children with same-sex parents, or (of course) transgender characters.

The company offers two reading lists featuring gay families: “Books for Two-Mommy Families” and “Great books for Two-Dad Families”.

The group argues that the books will confuse children into accepting homosexuality or transgender characters as normal and morally acceptable. To date, Scholastic has not issued a response. “According to its website, Scholastic Inc. reaches 6 million children per week with its publications. It features morally toxic reading lists for children,” the group told its followers. “Scholastic does not have our children’s best interests at heart.”

“Picture books that deliberately target young children with the idea that a biological boy can become a girl are false, harmful, and confusing,” the group encouraged followers to send the company in a pre-written message.

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[ExciteBike66]

1. If anyone knows "false, harmful, and confusing", it's these guys...

"“Picture books that deliberately target young children with the idea that a biological boy can become a girl are false, harmful, and confusing,” the group encouraged followers to send the company in a pre-written message. "

[crazycatlady]

2. One Million Moms is a misleading name

Their numbers are more like 50,000 crazy RW women.

[FSogol]

4. One Millionth Moms

[ck4829]

3. Goes to show how utterly and hopelessly materialist "One Million Moms" really is

We've landed on the Moon, eradicated two diseases and are close to doing it to a third, I have seen the anatomy of people who are outside of an imaginary gender binary, and that says nothing about the writings of religion... a parting of a sea, talking directly to God, Jesus healing the sick, and more. But to say "the idea that a biological boy can become a girl" is supposedly false shows me that One Million Moms and their allies aren't standing up for the spiritual, but for narratives that support the status quo and dominant narratives.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

5. Because nothing is more horrifying to them than showing

how LGBTQ persons are "normal and morally acceptable"

[Initech]

6. Give it up, One Million Moms.

Your schtick was old a while ago. And by the way, we know you're just 10 white dudes in an office in Florida with 1 million bot accounts.

[Leith]

7. They Are So Full of Shit

My favorite part of school was when we got the little catalogs of books we could buy. Some of the books required a parent or guardian to sign a permission slip to get. Is today's social climate so much more lackadaisical than it was 45 years ago? I doubt it.

I always credit my mother for signing the permission slip without even bothering to see what I wanted to order, pay for out of my own allowance, and read. I even asked her once, when I wanted to get The Bell Jar, if she wanted to see which books I wanted. She quickly said "nope." Now that I'm an adult with much the same attitude, I realize that the books made available to junior high schoolers are already verified by professionals who know what pre-teens and young teenagers can handle.

If it's moral toxicity they want, they should check out their own precious bible. It's full of rape, incest, genocide, bears tearing children apart, and even a mysterious naked and unnamed young man who ran away when the Roman soldiers came to arrest Jesus.

[LeftInTX]

8. Nobody is forcing those moms to order those books

Geez, they can request that the teacher not send the Scholastic catalog home with their kid.

[LeftInTX]

9. I bet all of their kids are homeschooled or in private schools

[Blindingly apparent]

10. I would like to write Scholastic books a note

They were an exciting part of my school life. I would get the four-page list of available books for the month and studiously, perhaps greedily-a more accurate word, pour over it choosing several books. Then, I would give the list to my mother who would make me choose just one what if I disappointed that I didn’t get everything-not really because I felt lucky that my parents could afford even one. There is something liberating for a kid to own a book, When my kids came along I always made sure that I could afford at least one book and now with my grandkids I buy a book or two every time I see the newsletter. Thank you scholastic books

[MineralMan]

11. The Fundy Right Has Been Hating on Scholastic Since Harry Potter.

Guess who has the last laugh?

"Expelliarmus," Fundies!