{"id":166,"date":"2023-12-06T17:31:49","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T23:31:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/re-faith.org\/?page_id=166"},"modified":"2024-01-02T22:18:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-03T04:18:12","slug":"banned-book-quote-of-the-day-love-that-forbidden-fruit","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/re-faith.org\/index.php\/banned-book-quote-of-the-day-love-that-forbidden-fruit\/","title":{"rendered":"Banned Book Quote of the Day – Love that forbidden\u00a0fruit!"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Banning books in schools doesn’t protect children. It attempts to curate their life, attempts to narrow it to our own limitations<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Every teenager knows… make something forbidden, and everyone will want it. Throughout history, the phrase banned book<\/em> doesn’t conjure images of the good guys<\/em>. Worldwide, and increasingly in the US, religious conservatives have been leading a movement to ban any books<\/a> that don’t line up with their worldview. Surely, many of these pushes are sincere attempts of parents to protect their children. In reality, it often feels <\/em>like social engineering intended to stamp out everyone not like them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The religious community has all but lost the trust of our LGBTQA+ siblings. We at Re: are doing something about it.<\/a> When literature is silenced, important stories aren’t told. Invariably, the marginalized, the poor, and the powerless are the ones whose narratives get disappeared<\/em>. Given the rates of suicide among queer youth<\/a>, this amounts to spiritual genocide. Regardless of the intent, restricting anyone’s right to be authentically who they are is wrong. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Censorship of people’s existence<\/em> is against our beliefs<\/a> at Re. It abolishes part of us all when we deny any of us. Help us to defeat this by signing up for the newsletter today. Find out about how you can be part of our movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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You can help us in our mission to give comfort and voice to the powerless. Please share this page<\/a> and our archive of banned book excerpts with everyone you know: via social media, text… heck, even ol’fashioned email. Help us remind everyone what our greatest teachers valued most. Help us support and uplift the powerless, defeating the perception that people of faith are bigots and hypocrites. Help us Re:faith<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Read our archive of banned book QoTD posts<\/h2>\n\n\n