Just days after the discovery of sexually explicit books available to students in Texas public schools, another book that includes anti-Christian ideology has been found in at least two school districts.
The book Blankets, a graphic novel by Craig Thompson, includes full frontal nudity of children and teenagers, sexual abuse, apparent depictions of pedophilia, and disparaging comments about Christianity.
Blankets is described as an “autobiographical graphic novel based on the author’s experiences growing up in a religious family in rural Wisconsin, describing his rivalry with his brother, and his experiences with first love.”
In addition to sexually explicit material, the book appears to endorse leaving the Christian faith, with one page featuring an illustration of an NIV Bible with the text, “Upon moving out of my parents home, I made a conscious effort to leave my Bible behind. It was the book of Ecclesiastes that prompted me to do so.”
In another section, two men discuss the Scriptures and one of them says the Bible “only sets up boundaries between people and cultures. It denies the beauty of being human and it ignores all these gaps that need to be filled in by the individual.”
Fort Worth parent activist Hollie Plemmsons first shared images of the book on social media on Aug. 1 and claimed the district’s library director “refused to remove the book.”