Anybody perplexed about why the Republican Social gathering continues to hemorrhage assist amongst conservative Individuals want look no additional than the continuing episode in Livingston Parish involving a Leftist librarian, the cabal who funds her, a involved mother or father, taxpayer cash, and smut within the kids’s part of a library paid for by Louisiana residents.
Ryan Thames is a resident of Livingston Parish and the daddy of two ladies, ages 13 and 5. Thames had the impertinence to publicly protest the position of sexually express books positioned within the kids’s part of a public library. His grave offense was to request that library personnel merely transfer the objectionable materials to a different a part of the library, out of the attain of kids. Your author has considered a pattern of the books at situation, which embrace healthful prepubescent themes corresponding to anal intercourse, butt plugs, masturbation, intercourse toys for “bonus enjoyable,” and the correct use of intercourse lube, full with graphic illustrations.
The books’ content material is so graphic that it needed to be redacted from an area information article, and no media retailers have seen match to publish the precise materials. What makes the state of affairs much more alarming is that the books weren’t by accident positioned within the youngsters’ part, they had been meant for his or her consumption. In some other setting moreover a public library, an grownup who offered the fabric at situation to a toddler would doubtless be arrested.
Along with objecting to the position of the books, Thames additionally publicly criticized Leftist Louisiana Affiliation of Faculty Librarians President Amanda Jones for her asinine opposition to having the books eliminated. Jones’ rewarded Mr. Thames by submitting a lawsuit in opposition to him and Michael Lunsford, founding father of the watchdog advocacy group Residents for a New Louisiana. The go well with is pending in Livingston Parish District Courtroom.
Jones claims that Thames defamed her by suggesting that her assist for youngsters’s entry to graphic intercourse books quantities to complicity within the sexual grooming of kids (which is on the very least an controversial level). Jones additionally claims that removing of the books quantities to unconstitutional authorities censorship.
Jones’ claims have zero benefit, as each Thames and Lunsford’s statements are constitutionally protected speech, and the US Supreme Courtroom has lengthy held that society has a basic curiosity in defending our youngsters from prurient photos. Jones needs to be summarily bounced out of Courtroom simply after she is sanctioned for inflicting the expenditure of useful judicial assets on patent nonsense. The truth that Jones’ claims are the authorized equal of a protracted bowel motion has not deterred Leftist teams from donating a hefty $100,000 to fund her go well with in an execrable effort to intimidate and demoralize Mr. Thames and his household, in addition to Mr. Lunsford.
As soon as the fever of the second passes and Jones is rightly forgotten, this episode should endure in our reminiscence as a supreme instance of beautiful political and ethical weak point exhibited by the Livingston Parish Republican Social gathering. In a second when the core values of its neighborhood are underneath vicious assault by Jones and her Leftist co-agitators, each the Louisiana Republican Social gathering and the Livingston Parish Republicans stay as mute as a pond of fish.
With the noteworthy exception of Consultant Valarie Hodges, not one distinguished Livingston Republican has uttered a single public phrase of denunciation of Ms. Jones or a single phrase of assist for both Mr. Lunsford or Mr. Thames and his household. The Social gathering, together with Livingston Republican RINO Consultant Buddy Mincey, sits on the sidelines and watches because the lifetime of a good man is torn aside for standing in opposition to evil as he tries to guard the dear innocence of our youngsters. The identical Social gathering will inevitably search the monetary and political assist from honorable residents like Ryan Thames in Livingston Parish and throughout Louisiana, hoping that they are going to neglect its repeated betrayal of their pursuits. They won’t and they need to not.
The Republican Social gathering ought to by no means once more surprise why a considerable majority of Louisianans now not belief, now not really feel loyalty to, and now not struggle for an establishment that’s too weak and compromised to struggle for them, a Social gathering that someplace alongside the road misplaced its soul. Except it recovers its id and its spine in very quick order, its epitaph will learn “Right here lies the as soon as nice Republican Social gathering, useless by its personal hand.” And perhaps that’s appropriately, for the patriots are amassing over the hill.
J. Christopher Alexander, Louisiana Citizen Advocacy Group www.lacag.org
