Catholic nonprofit CatholicVote is seeking to remove LGBT books from children’s libraries as “Pride Month” begins on June 1.
The group’s third “Hide the Pride” campaign calls upon parents to take action against LGBT content aimed at young children.
“We are equipping you to fight back and reclaim your library for your kids,” the organization declares in a document. “We are going to ‘Hide the Pride.'”
The group lists actionable steps for parents, such as utilizing the organization’s template for writing a letter to libraries, gathering signatures, and being ready to film possible confrontations from library staff.
Parents are to check out LGBT children’s books and keep them out of sight from their children at home.
The document then lists some of the most popular children’s LGBT books, including Julian is a Mermaid, I Am Jazz, Gender Queer, and All Boys Aren’t Blue.
CatholicVote’s letter template that parents can utilize reads, “To protect our children and the community, we have checked out the books in the pride display. We plan to keep these books checked out until the library agrees to permanently remove the inappropriate content from the shelves.”
“Flags, signs, and book displays based on how adults experience sexual attraction and gender identity have no place in an open and public space for children,” the letter template continues. “Minor children have the right to belong to a community that respects their innocence and allows families to have conversations about sex and sexual attraction privately, and only when parents deem it appropriate.”
The letter calls for public libraries to “once again be a respectful space for young children to freely explore great ideas that unite and inspire us all, rather than places where controversial and divisive new ideological movements are given free rein to promote their theories and policy positions about sexuality to children without the consent or notification of parents.”
Last year, CatholicVote President Brian Burch told Fox News Digital that “Americans are waking up.”
“Americans are waking up to, this is no longer a movement about love is love and just equality and tolerance,” he said. “It’s about forcing all Americans to surrender their traditional moral beliefs and to accept some of the more extreme elements.”
“You know, we wouldn’t use libraries for any other big political propaganda effort. We don’t do it on abortion. We don’t do it on immigration. But somehow this has become this acceptable political, propaganda scheme and especially for children where it’s where it’s most inappropriate,” he added.
Burch explained that the campaign is about “protecting childhood innocence and leaving those questions about how to teach children about their sexuality and understanding their bodies to parents and to the time, place that parents determine is appropriate.”
