Thu Mar 9, 2023 – 8:58 pm EST
TAMPA, Florida (LifeSiteNews) — A local Florida television channel had to hold off on its live recording Wednesday when Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis presented a video highlighting some of the sexually explicit books reportedly pulled from the shelves of Florida’s public school libraries.
The decision by local channel WFLA underscores the rationale for DeSantis’ moves to cull inappropriate materials from children’s classrooms and school libraries, an effort his political opponents have decried as a form of authoritarian book-banning.
DeSantis’ office showed the materials during a five-minute video ahead of a press conference titled “Exposing the Book Ban Hoax,” held at the state attorney’s office in Tampa.
The materials presented during the video were described as pornographic by the DeSantis administration, and therefore inherently inappropriate for children.
Texts referenced included “Gender Queer,” “Let’s Talk About It,” and Rupi Kaur’s “Homebody,” “Milk and Honey” and “The Sun and Her Flowers.” The books reportedly explore explicit themes, including LGBT sex, in graphic detail.
According to the DeSantis administration, the materials don’t match up with the conservative state’s values as outlined in its Parental Rights in Education law, often mischaracterized by
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