Cleveland Plain Dealer Logic: No ‘Porn Moms’ But Moms Group Supports Porn For Sure
Did Ohio’s largest newspaper admit an inconvenient truth, perhaps inadvertently?
In its zeal to protect a liberal activist group from a catchy conservative label that is gaining traction on the eve of a statewide ballot initiative — “Porn Moms of Shaker Heights — the online sister publication of the Plain Dealer admitted that the group in question supports pornographic material.
From its story today titled On Issue 1, there are no Porn Moms of Shaker Heights:
The kernel of truth in the “porn moms” post is that Red Wine & Blue, a multi-state group that seeks to build support for liberal causes among suburban women in swing states, voiced opposition to Ohio’s State Issue 1. Red Wine & Blue publicly opposes book bans and offers access to banned books, such as Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer: A Memoir and Juno Dawson’s This Book is Gay, according to the Red Wine & Blue website.
Gender Queer, which PEN America described as the “most frequently banned book” in 2021-2022 school year, has been a frequent target of those seeking to ban minors from accessing controversial books. The award-winning graphic novel, which Barnes & Noble lists as age-appropriate for readers 15 and older, is a memoir that includes depictions of oral sex.
While there are several pages of sexually explicit material, Gender Queer is a 240-page book that’s primarily about the Kobabe’s journey in identifying as nonbinary.
Ohio has a 50 percent threshold to change its constitution. The U.S. Constitution and other states make it more difficult to frivolously change its legal foundation.
The group has couched its position as opposed to “book banning.” Parents groups have pointed out that the materials in question are pornography not appropriate for children.
