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Commentary: 'It's Perfectly Normal' to Corrupt Children 8/9/2004 Book racks up sales with a mix of porn pictures, sex ideology for youngsters What book has quietly sold over a million copies, miseducates children about sex, and outrages many parents when they get hold of it?
It’s Perfectly Normal, written by Robie Harris and illustrated by Michael Emberley, has been described as "pornographic." That’s putting it mildly. It's chock-full of watercolors featuring assorted sex acts and full frontal nudity. Most of the characters illustrated are pubescent boys and girls. The presentation would not be out of place on the walls of a ruined brothel in Pompeii.
Yet the hardcover copy’s cover includes this at the top from advice columnist Ann Landers:
"At last ... a book for young people about sex and reproduction in language they can understand, plus pictures they will enjoy."
Ann has apparently been hanging around the Kinsey Institute crowd, which thinks child molestation is just part of a good scientific inquiry into sex.
Since the Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Candlewick Press published it in 1994, It’s Perfectly Normal has riled citizens all across America. A few examples:
Why the fuss? One reading of It’s Perfectly Normal will answer that question.
Critics say the book promotes abortion and homosexuality. They're right. It also denigrates Judeo-Christian religion and morality.
Page 73 of the 1996 paperback edition lists nine reasons to have an abortion, capped by this masterpiece of moral anorexia: "The female did not want or intend to become pregnant." There are no reasons offered not to have an abortion. The author probably couldn't think of any.
Harris' enthusiasm for homosexuality is boundless. She dubs it "perfectly normal" and "the highest form of love," according to "the ancient Greeks" (pp. 17-18). Those who object to it are "ignorant" and "misinformed." Harris also lists the anus (pp. 23, 26) as "a sex organ." Perhaps we ought to be grateful she left it at that.
What possesses parents to allow their children to be exposed to this? In my home state of New Jersey, Planned Parenthood "trains" the teachers who teach "sex education" in the public schools. Taxpayer dollars pay for it. This is boiling the calf in its mother's milk.
Cattle don't have votes or voices, but people do. Where are the votes? Where are the voices? Why is this garbage in our public schools and libraries?
My parents, when I was 10 years old, would never have let a "teacher" put a book like this in front of me. If anyone had, he would've been lucky if the police got to him first.
Parents, this is what your public schools are using to teach your children about sex, and they're doing it with your money.
For those parents who are forcing officials to toss this book out, more power to you. As for the others, who are sitting back while their kids are exposed to degrading stuff like this, I guess "it’s perfectly normal."
Lee Duigon is a Metuchen, New Jersey-based Christian free-lance writer and former newspaper editor who writes periodically for CWA’s Culture & Family Institute. |
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