Public Comment

San Ramon Valley High School in California is embroiled in a growing nationwide debate over book bans. Around the country, parents are increasingly clashing with librarians and school districts over book bans, demanding titles they find inappropriate — often with LGBTQ content — be removed from shelves. Actually, the best way to protect our children’s “innocence” is to take away their access to the internet and lock them up until they reach age 18 or move to Florida. 

Remember the Index Librorum Prohibitorum ("List of Prohibited Books"), a list of publications deemed heretical or contrary to morality by the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, and Catholics were forbidden to read them? As a youngster, I remember some of my Catholic friends telling me that the "List" was a great source of a good read.