Quantum Windbag
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My, they can use children's books to promote their agenda, but no one else can.
See, no agenda there, write books about gay parents, but not parents who carry guns.
A children?s book for gun rights? ?My Parents Open Carry? ? and beyond - The Washington PostI know that children’s books are a nice, simple way of dealing with things kids have to encounter in the world later on, or to explain things that kids are encountering now in a reassuring way. But — isn’t this a little much? Kids have to live with some issues on a daily basis. How should you treat people? How shouldn’t you treat people? What does a family look like? Does everybody poop?
But do we really have to engage our Young Readers in the gun-control debate?
“Keep the culture wars away from kids?” you say. “But what about that book about gay penguin dads? What’s wrong with wanting books that reflect your family and your family’s story?” Well, are the guns really such vital members of the family that they need to appear in the picture book, too? I think it’s possible to reconcile my sense that this is a little much a little soon with the fact that I basically enjoyed “And Tango Makes Three.” But I like any book that contains pictures of penguins.
See, no agenda there, write books about gay parents, but not parents who carry guns.