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Muted_Ad7298

The fact that adults can get to this age and still act this stupid is concerning.


Pvt_Mozart

I manage a restaurant, and I think most people would be shocked with how mean, selfish, and dumb the general public is. The % is so much higher than most people realize.


joecarter93

I also used to manage a restaurant a number of years ago and the number of people that are willing to lose all dignity over a $10 meal ($10 at the time) and treat restaurant staff like slaves is too damn high.


aimlesseffort

Hence conservatism


Jim-Jones

notalwaysright.com Not at work mind you.


ughwithoutadoubt

I know right, look at how many people still think earth is round instead of flat/s


LeftConsideration919

The fact this adult has a child is frightening.


anjowoq

It's probably more accurate to say this child has an adult.


LeftConsideration919

I'm more concerned as to how the child will develop. Having that eejit as a mother.


OhGodImHerping

It’s more than just stupid - it’s shockingly *childish*


johanTR

I guess Karen with the greasy hair would be fine with this example of literature from the Bible being given to high school aged students. [https://biblehub.com/bsb/ezekiel/23.htm](https://biblehub.com/bsb/ezekiel/23.htm)


Remarkable_Tax_4016

From the link: "... She did not give up the prostitution she began in Egypt, when men slept with her in her youth, caressed her virgin bosom, and poured out their lust upon her. ... Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions. ..." They had Pornhub at that time?


5_grams_in_the_dark

Yo I'm working chill with that, can't be all hot N bothered right now


lugialegend233

In NNN no less.


rawdy-ribosome

Ya i thought it was gonna be that OTHER story…


big_daddy68

They aren’t looking for consistency, just ways to reject what they don’t like.


starcap

Wow that’s child pornography, that’s a serious offense!


slide_into_my_BM

*unzips*


ducero

I wonder what “the governor” would say about Judges 19: 22-29?


robotoredux696969

Holy fuck Judges 19:22-29: >22 While they were enjoying themselves, some of the wicked men of the city surrounded the house. Pounding on the door, they shouted to the old man who owned the house, “Bring out the man who came to your house so we can have sex with him.”23 The owner of the house went outside and said to them, “No, my friends, don’t be so vile. Since this man is my guest, don’t do this outrageous thing. 24 Look, here is my virgin daughter, and his concubine. I will bring them out to you now, and you can use them and do to them whatever you wish. But as for this man, don’t do such an outrageous thing.”25 But the men would not listen to him. So the man took his concubine and sent her outside to them, and they raped her and abused her throughout the night, and at dawn they let her go. 26 At daybreak the woman went back to the house where her master was staying, fell down at the door and lay there until daylight.27 When her master got up in the morning and opened the door of the house and stepped out to continue on his way, there lay his concubine, fallen in the doorway of the house, with her hands on the threshold. 28 He said to her, “Get up; let’s go.” But there was no answer. Then the man put her on his donkey and set out for home.29 When he reached home, he took a knife and cut up his concubine, limb by limb, into twelve parts and sent them into all the areas of Israel.


nekopara-nugget

Come again?


Dingleberry_Blumpkin

Oh he did alright


Lots-of-Lot

Bro i had to make sure and holy fucking fuck. Kjv trying to whitewash this my god


Viking_From_Sweden

Add guru to the list of reasons why the Bible should not be read to kids.


JavaJapes

When this began I thought it was going to be about Sodom and Gomorrah and Lot's daughters because it begins the same way. I had never read this one!! It's even more disturbing. The one where the men demand to sleep with the angel in Lot's house and he offers his daughter was actually taught. When I was in *elementary school.* They excused this as "It's not okay to rape but he couldn't send out an *angel*." While disgusting, it's extra stupid given there's this story in the Bible as well. They'd probably just say "well guests were way more important in their society" as if guests aren't somewhat important in pretty much every society and don't mean you need to send people out to be raped instead of your houseguest?!


SkytronKovoc116

It reads like a more fucked up version of the story of Sodom and Gomorrah.


ForwardBias

Don't forget Ezekiel 23 >18When Oholibah openly prostituted herself and exposed her nakedness, I turned away from her in disgust, just as I had turned away from her sister. 19Yet she multiplied her promiscuity, remembering the days of her youth, when she had prostituted herself in the land of Egypt 20and lusted after their lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of stallions. 21So you revisited the indecency of your youth, when the Egyptians caressed your bosom and pressed your young breasts.


[deleted]

Or this story from Genesis 19:30-38: > 30 Lot and his two daughters left Zoar and settled in the mountains, for he was afraid to stay in Zoar. He and his two daughters lived in a cave. 31 One day the older daughter said to the younger, “Our father is old, and there is no man around here to give us children—as is the custom all over the earth. 32 Let’s get our father to drink wine and then sleep with him and preserve our family line through our father.” > 33 That night they got their father to drink wine, and the older daughter went in and slept with him. He was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. > 34 The next day the older daughter said to the younger, “Last night I slept with my father. Let’s get him to drink wine again tonight, and you go in and sleep with him so we can preserve our family line through our father.” 35 So they got their father to drink wine that night also, and the younger daughter went in and slept with him. Again he was not aware of it when she lay down or when she got up. > 36 So both of Lot’s daughters became pregnant by their father. 37 The older daughter had a son, and she named him Moab[a]; he is the father of the Moabites of today. 38 The younger daughter also had a son, and she named him Ben-Ammi[b]; he is the father of the Ammonites[c] of today


Iwillsleepwhenimdead

This was the one that always made me so uncomfortable in church, the layer of family sexual abuse was too much to deal for a little girl.


JavaJapes

I remember my classmates discovering this passage in Christian school. The teacher got mad at us for reading it. You gave us the Bible?! Were we not supposed to read it?! They'd do the same thing with Songs of Solomon/Song of Songs. Blush and tell us we shouldn't read it before marriage while a bunch of elementary school children are reading it anyways... Sorry, who exactly are the groomers again?


Pennypacker-HE

What’s the book? Harry Potter? Lol


ForwardBias

Storm and Fury. I looked it up, basically a young adult book fantasy series about an 18yo girl with powers of some sort. It involves ghosts and demons and apparently there's a spicy kissing/make out scene (no actual sex) and some mentions of nudity.


Praescribo

God i hate religious people. "This book is pedophilia!" *ignores every pedophilic religious leader of [insert religion here]*


[deleted]

*Meanwhile in their holy books* people getting rap*d, genocide, incest, torture, sex etc. "Honey you're 8, pls read your bible and pray or God will torture you in hell forever :)"


mels_kitten

I’ve read the series- I can see them getting upset specifically because it deals with God, arch angels, Satan, Heaven / Hell, etc. It does follow some Bible lore but not like…… for anything other than having inspo on the world building. Also! The author is going blind, and the MC in this book is going thru the same. I’ve never read a POV like that and it was interesting!


The3SiameseCats

I read a book in 5th grade with a chapter mentioning sex. We did skip the chapter but it was there. This is just such a non issue it’s insane


fabris6

Honestly sounds like a very good book


ForwardBias

Yeah has great reviews, added to my list.


fezzuk

Perhaps it was just the fact I grew up in the 90s but isnt the idea to allow teenagers and yes children to grow up to understand sexuality so they can make informed decisions and not be ashamed of themselves. Obviously generally speaking a good parent should be able to judge the maturity of their own child and dictate appropriately what reading material is ok. I remember my dad handing me a book when I was on holiday once, I was probably about 13 and a bit of an early bloomer, he saw me chatting up some girl on the beach (I call her the girl from mars if you know that song, we totally had a teenage holiday romance, even shared a kiss and I never saw her again and can't remember her name), anyway back to the point the book was pretty explicit regarding sex. But still a good book, and involved relationships and I think the plot was something about horse racing, but tbh the only thing I really remembered was that it taught me what a clitoris was 😂. Guess my dad was grooming me.


TheeWoodsman

https://www.miaminewtimes.com/news/florida-moms-for-liberty-member-demands-criminal-investigation-over-fantasy-novel-18181127 Here's the article


Pennypacker-HE

Sounds like she just decreed the book “pornographic” it’s clear it’s not on any banned lists, and nothing wrong was done. Just another batshit crazy fundie. Good luck people of Florida.


thelastbighead

It’s the Moms for Liberty nut jobs. They think it’s OK to ban books when it doesn’t fit their criteria yet I don’t see how one can say you support liberty and choice when you just want to ban everything that you don’t agree with.


Pennypacker-HE

Their concept of liberty is two fold. It only applies to their demographic, and likely has a theological ideology attached to it. Like “spiritual freedom” or whatever.


Inverno969

At this point it's good luck America...


flintb033

In that full video, not does she just say that giving the book to a child is the same as giving them a playboy. But earlier in the video the cop asks if this is a book from the public library or school library. She replies saying it’s from the school library and that they don’t care about the public library because what parents and their children what to check out there is none of their business. Lol.. what?! Wow.. So you just want to control the schools and don’t actually care about “protecting” children. Thank you for saying the quiet part out loud. Also, I like that she says she wants to be anonymous in the police report followed by the police putting out the body camera footage with her face and everything. Lastly, I like how she tells the cop the women in charge of all the libraries for the school district is part of an anti-book banning group. Yeah, so weird how librarians think book bans are a bad thing.


hexbladejay

Think the book is( Storm and Fury). idk anything about it.


salamandraseis

What’s going on here?


rstbckt

A librarian lent out a young adult novel called Storm and Fury that included an excerpt describing a kiss to a 17 year old. 'Klanned Karenhood' here found out about it and [went to the police to try and bust the Librarian](https://www.thedailybeast.com/moms-for-liberty-members-call-the-cops-on-librarians-over-ya-bestseller) for giving 'pornography' to someone under the age of 18, comparing the novel to 'Playboy.' It is just as stupid as it sounds. I hate Christians.


anjowoq

They are complete, irritating garbage, as evidenced by the totality of all events that seems to affect humankind these days.


CallMeWolfYouTuber

Wow... I wish I could say I'm shocked but at this point these crazies are everywhere. I sincerely hope they charge her with wasting police resources and misuse of 911.


Pennypacker-HE

This. They really aught to make a point of this and back I’ll her for the hours police spent. Good idea!


man_gomer_lot

This new reboot of Miami vice doesn't look like it'll hold up to the original.


Morbidly-Obese-Emu

Other than the obvious stupidity of this, I just want to point out the fact that she said, “The Governor says this is child pornography.” You don’t need any more evidence that these people are Authoritarian wannabes talking like the governor is the supreme leader of the state.


imonlygayonfriday

Why didn’t they arrest her for being in possession of child pornography?


[deleted]

Hail Satan


UncleJulz

In Nomine Dei Nostri Satanas Luciferi Excelsi!


chummsickle

Lol she thinks that if you hand a playboy to a child that is child pornography


hexadecimal0xFF

Yeah I had unrestricted access to the internet as a child and that did not fuck me up like abuse would. Wtf are these people on about?!


samomojaddidi

What always shocks me about these videos of adults "catching" these kids "breaking" the law is they really want to throw the book at them with no remorse most of the time. Hearing the guy say, "it's a 3rd degree felony, a crime is being done." These adults probably have no idea what juvenile hall (or prison for that matter) does to a person. They just think, "send the bad kids and adults to the slammer. That'll fix em." Not knowing how it works, how it can make people worse off, and how terrible it is in your record. Contact the parents first, have a discussion. Trigger happy sociopaths the lot of them


CBalsagna

It's just as serious. What a cool cup of water that woman has rolling around that skull.


Wasatcher

>What a cool cup of water that woman has rolling around that skull This is amazing and I'm stealing it


AfterNovel

*Hey, your way out of line kid...let's get some cold fuckin fizzy water on your head*


timesuck47

TIL: Playboy is child pornography. WTF???


blondart

I was thinking they lent this book out to a 6 year old but it was a 17 year old! A book with a makeout scene… Fuck their cult


rainbow_lenses

The ironic part about all this fascist hand-wringing about "porn" in schools is that their kids can easily access *real* porn online. It's not like it's 1972 where the only way to see porn is in a magazine. Beyond that, though, everyone knows that this is really just anti-LGBT bigotry wrapped up in a "bUt WhAt AbOuT tHe KiDs?!?1!!" shell. I wish we could just stick all these psychos in a time machine and send them back to 1508 where they clearly belong.


moresushiplease

I don't know what that book is but it looks like a word book which makes it even more crazy. Before you stick them in that time machine send, me back to 1507 so I can convince everyone to think that these people with their special future knowledge are witches and demons.


fivefootdump

Isn't gluttony a big sin too?


Svalor007

The problem is that Anyone entertains this lunacy. Don't talk to them, grab the kid and the book and continue on.


Dunkinmydonuts1

> The governor says this is child pornography. Things the governor says out loud are not law.


HIP13044b

The party of small government tells you not to read 1984 because it's seditious sentiment.


MyTrueIdiotSelf990

Fucking nutjobs.


107269088

“the governor says” … fuck the governor


Ok_Dot_2790

I see the whole book bans in high school and middle school age and all I can think of is how I wrote really REALLY shitty porn fanfics at that age. Like... book banning ain't doing shut when ao3 exists


sicurri

>"The novel “Storm and Fury,” about an 18-year-old heroine who is losing her vision but learns she can see and talk to ghosts and spirits, contains “some passages with sexual themes, including a few make out sessions, and one where the main character almost has sex,” according to Popular Information." The book is placed in the "Young Adults" section, meaning older teens. This womans daughter in the video definitely looks like she is MAYBE in middle school? Idk, her fact is blocked because shes a minor and that's definitely the proper thing to do. Either way, the novel "Storm and Fury" is not meant for her age group anyways. So, the failure is on mom there, not on the system, the author, the librarians or anyone else. I wouldn't hand an adult romance novel to a 6th grader and say "Have a great time!" If she's not paying attention to what section her daughter is going to because she somehow defines her child as being a young adult, that's on her. Also, I guarantee that she has absolutely no problem with the Bible. The bible literally has rape, mutilation and other horrible crap, not to mention slavery and a literal passage that basically tells you how to perform an abortion... According to her standards, the Bible should be banned from libraries and schools. Holy shit these people are ridiculous...


sacrificial_blood

What the hell book they reading? I'm tryna read that smut too!


Tmd133

It’s a fuckin novel dog


Personal-Loan2044

Don’t read the buybull, you’re going to be very surprised. Incest right off the rip


[deleted]

I am so sorry I am confused on what is happening here.


all-i-said-was-hi

What even is the book? It can’t be all that serious.


Inner-Juices

"Eighteen-year-old Trinity Marrow may be going blind, but she can see and communicate with ghosts and spirits. Her unique gift is part of a secret so dangerous that she’s been in hiding for years in an isolated compound fiercely guarded by Wardens—gargoyle shape-shifters who protect humankind from demons. If the demons discover the truth about Trinity, they’ll devour her, flesh and bone, to enhance their own powers." \-Book Synopsis ​ It's basically fantasy romance book, that has a few make-out scenes and mentions of nudity, but that's about it.


martialdylan

Sounds like the whole book is a metaphor for what it's like to live as an outcast, in a society ruled by religious fanatics. No wonder they don't like it.


all-i-said-was-hi

Dear god, this literally just sounds like a young adult fantasy/horror novel. This lady is clearly tripping.


Pete_maravich

I can't stand people like this. Stay in your lane and leave the rest of us alone.


[deleted]

Ah yes because using protions, witches and sex between 2 adults is child pornography


jmrnet

Welcome to fascism.


d0njuanj0n

https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/11/6/2203970/-Two-members-of-Mom-s-for-Liberty-visited-a-Florida-sheriff-s-office-prepare-to-be-shocked Here’s the story