In Temporary Win, Mom Gets Dirty Books Removed From School Libraries

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🗓️ 7 October 2021

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Summary

Northern Virginia continues to be a battleground between school boards and parents over what should be taught in public schools. The latest incident involves a series of books in Fairfax Public School libraries containing graphic depictions of sex between children and adults.

Stacy Langton, a mom from Fairfax County, Virginia, made headlines after she read aloud and showed images from those books, “Gender Queer” by Maia Kobabe and “Lawn Boy” by Jonathan Evison, during a School Board meeting.

While the books have been temporarily removed from the Fairfax County Public School libraries, Langton is still concerned that a child will be permanently affected by the obscene pictures.

"You're going to accidentally have your child stumble across this and open up. And once you see this, you can't unsee these images," she says.

Langton joins "The Daily Signal Podcast” to talk about that School Board meeting, and the larger issue of such books being in public school libraries in the first place.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Thursday, October 7th.
0:09.8	I'm Virginia Allen and I'm Doug Blair.
0:12.7	Northern Virginia continues to be a battleground between school boards and parents over what
0:17.5	should be taught in public schools.
0:19.8	The latest incident involves a series of books in Fairfax Public School Libraries containing
0:24.6	graphic depictions of sex between children and adults.
0:28.7	Stacey Langton, a mom from Fairfax County, Virginia, made headlines after she read aloud
0:33.6	and showed images from these books during a school board meeting.
0:37.3	She joins the Daily Signal Podcast to talk about that school board meeting and the larger
0:41.2	issues of these books being in public school libraries in the first place.
0:45.0	And don't forget, if you enjoy listening to this podcast, please be sure to just take
0:50.1	a minute to leave us a review or a five-star rating on Apple Podcasts and please always
0:55.0	encourage others to subscribe.
0:57.3	And now on to today's top news.
1:08.3	West Virginia Democrat Senator Joe Manchin will not agree to spend more than $1.5 trillion
1:15.9	on Democrats' social spending bill.
1:18.8	President Joe Biden and leading Democrats continue to promote their $3.5 trillion bill,
1:25.3	but Manchin says he won't go above his top line, per face the nation.
1:30.1	Let me make it very clear, there's been a lot of speculation about what number on reconciliation.
1:37.1	My number has been 1.5.
1:38.1	I've been very clear and I think you all have gotten an outline of how I got to 1.5.
1:43.8	Comments Manchin made Tuesday made some Democrats think he was warming to the idea of a larger
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