US Bishops’ Campaign Backs Group Pushing Pornographic Books in Schools

The group has launched an initiative to collect “banned books” including some with graphic sexual content

The Catholic Campaign for Human Development has provided funding to a group that recently worked to collect so-called “banned books,” including those that have been deemed pornographic and inappropriate for children.

LifeSiteNews reports that the Congregations United to Serve Humanity (CUSH) received over $200,000 from the bishops’ campaign between 2012-2018 and a grant of $45,000 for 2021-2022.

This year, KUSH organized a book drive to “help stock [a] proposed LGBTQ youth center” with “banned books.”

“The reason we’re doing this is really to raise awareness,” CUSH organizer Lori Hawkins said, as reported by Kenosha News. “There’s a lot of books that are on the banned books list and have been in the past that we think people will be surprised to learn about. But we’re really looking at getting books that we can put into this library for the LGBTQ youth center.”

In a segment from the outlet that featured an interview with Hawkins, LifeSiteNews notes that among other LGBT titles for youth was “Gender Queer,” which has garnered national attention for its explicit pornographic content.

Titles such as “The LGBTQ+ History Book,” “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” and “This Book is Gay,” all of which are oriented around familiarizing young people with LGBT lifestyle through pornographic images and descriptions of sexual acts.

“This Book is Gay” also explains to young readers how “hookup” apps work.

These books have been removed from school libraries in localities around the country, often after outcry from parents, many of whom are themselves pro-LGBT and simply do not want their children to have access to X-rated content on school grounds.