SPOTLIGHT: Banned Books Week & Parents’ Concerns

Written by Alyssa Sonnenburg

In case you missed it, the week of September 22nd was announced as Banned Books Week according to the American Library Association (ALA). The ALA wants the public to believe that raising concerns about obscene material in children’s books is the same as Nazi book banning.

Thomas Hampson sits down with Monte Larrick to combat this false narrative. Thomas Hampson is a contributing writer for IFI serving as an intelligence analyst, U.S. Air Force Veteran, and a former chief investigator for the Illinois Legislative Investigating Commission. He also served on the Chicago Crime Commission as a board member and is the founder of the Truth Alliance Foundation, which is dedicated to the protection of children.

“The truth is that’s a ridiculous characterization of what’s going on. The concern that parents have is that books are being placed in school libraries and also children’s sections of public libraries that are inappropriate for children to read.

The Library Association believes that children should be able to look at any material that’s in any library whenever they want to without any kind of restriction at all.”

This is a very important conversation that you don’t want to miss.

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