Wed Jan 11, 2023 – 5:55 pm EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Two school districts in Florida and New York have attracted attention for the different ways they addressed the presence of highly sexualized LGBT books in school libraries.
Earlier this week, Lake County Schools in Florida banned a children’s book titled “And Tango Makes Three,” which tells the true story of two male penguins that appeared to be trying to mate while housed together in the Central Park Zoo. The book has sparked debate since its publication in 2005 for portraying a push to accept homosexuality under the guise of an innocent children’s story about penguins.
However, Lake County banned the book from school libraries because it “violates Florida law on teaching about sexual orientation or gender identity to kindergarten [through] third-graders,” according to Fox News. In 2022, Gov. Ron DeSantis signed the Parental Rights in Education Act, which prohibits the teaching of radical gender ideology to children in third grade and younger as well as requiring age-appropriate discussions of sexuality and gender for older students.
Two other books have been removed from school libraries and classrooms by the same district, also citing the parental rights bill.
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