Opinion

Moms for Liberty exposed this graphic content in elementary school libraries

Last week, Tina Descovich, co-founder of Moms for Liberty, was on the Washington Journal on CSPAN discussing parental rights in education. During her segment, she mentioned the numerous attacks from radical left-wing activist groups threatened by Moms for Liberty. Descovich rejected all of the Left’s claims and explained how they were baseless. Then, she highlighted some of the sexually suggestive, inappropriate content inexplicably available to young children in school libraries — and exactly why Moms for Liberty is needed.

One of the books Descovich discussed, All Boys Aren’t Blue, drew the ire of the book’s author, George M. Johnson. He objected to Descovich’s categorization of his book and rebuffed her claim that this book, which features graphic sexual content, was in elementary school libraries. In response, Johnson tweeted, among other things, that All Boys Aren’t Blue "has never been found in an elementary school library.”

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But Descovich proved Johnson wrong and tweeted proof of the book being in an elementary school library. It is a book that contains a vivid description of a sexual encounter (explained below) that is inappropriate for elementary school students. Johnson once again rejected her findings, denied the allegation, and asserted that he didn’t believe claims from anyone associated with Moms for Liberty.

“You think that I’m a believe one of YOUR folks? I’ve literally caught SEVERAL of y’all lying about my book being in libraries that THAT NEVER HAD MY BOOK,” Johnson tweeted.

It took me exactly seven minutes and 23 seconds to verify what Descovich claimed. Christine Liberaski, a spokeswoman for the school district, acknowledged that the book was in the Oak Park Elementary School library “for five months during the 2020-2021 school year, but was never checked out by a student.” Its discovery was among the topics discussed at a North Penn School District board meeting. The district is in a suburb of Philadelphia.

“The book was purchased by a librarian, on the shelf for three months, but it was never checked out of the library by a student,” Liberaski told me in an email regarding the book’s availability. “It was signed out by a staff member for two months, returned, and never went back into circulation.”

Furthermore, at that meeting, Vicki Flannery, a mother in the district and a chapter chair of Moms for Liberty, read passages from the book to the board. Given its disturbing contents, it is a good thing that no elementary school student checked it out.

“Do any of you, any of you, find this book that depicts a sexual encounter and rape acceptable for any minor, regardless of gender or sexual orientation? Because I do not find this at all acceptable,” Flannery asked the school board.

The contents are so shocking that even the school district’s assistant superintendent, Todd Bauer, was taken aback at the disturbing passages from the book that Flannery read. “I did look into it, and I will say that I was equally surprised as everyone else in the room by what was read by Mrs. Flannery,” North Penn Assistant Superintendent Todd Bauer said at a school board meeting in October 2021. Bauer then explained how the book was removed from the library.

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The entire passage was too graphic and inappropriate to post. If interested, the full version of Flannery’s reading can be found here.
It’s important to remember that this book was available to students between 4 and 12 years old.


Many have called the efforts to remove books such as All Boys Aren’t Blue from elementary schools fascist, suppressing speech, and anti-LGBT. Nothing could be further from the truth. The material quoted above is arguably inappropriate for any student in school, let alone those in kindergarten through sixth grades. No parent should support such things being available to elementary school students. This is just common sense. Anyone arguing otherwise has prioritized a misguided allegiance to radical LGBT activists instead of protecting young, innocent children.