Open Letter to Florida Speaker Sprowls and Senate President Simpson

From Florida Citizens Alliance

Subject: Open Letter to Florida Speaker Sprowls and Senate President Simpson

Why have you decided NOT to protect our public-school children from sexually explicit material and age-inappropriate gender indoctrination of Florida’s young children?

(This week) in the legislature: Courageous Representative Borrero with full support of Vice Chair McClain has filed HB 1305 “Harmful for Minors” and Senator Baxley has filed SB 1842, a comparable bill “Reproductive Health and Disease Education.” 

So far in both chambers, you have refused to allow these bills to be scheduled for a fair hearing. … the only way forward for you to protect our children from these Harmful Materials is for you to provide the leadership to either include in respective committee bills or attach to a relevant bill that is moving.

HB 1305 has 3 significant elements:

1) fixes several loopholes in FS 847.012 and 847.001 that school districts exploit to push their sexually explicit agenda.

2) contains a very strong parental opt-in, putting parents in control of what sexually explicit materials their children are exposed to.

3) provides parents with a legal course of action if unsuccessful in their schools.

SB 1842 contains a very strong parental opt-in, putting parents in control of what sexually explicit and age-inappropriate materials their children are exposed to.

Florida Citizens Alliance (FLCA), a statewide not-for-profit, with the legal assistance of Pacific Justice Institute, has recently updated a detailed assessment of 58 books and novels used throughout Florida public schools. To read this report, you must agree that you are over 18 years of age to even open the Harmful Materials Report, yet these sexually explicit and age-inappropriate materials are prevalent in our public schools.

Background: FLCA has been fighting to protect our children from these types of materials for over 6 years. When confronted with the materials almost every legislator, regardless of party, readily admit many of these should not be in public schools.  Yet leadership fails to have the courage to act. Several sheriffs have indicated that if you or I were to go on school property to distribute some of these, we would be arrested for distributing child pornography or child abuse. Yet there has been little or no action by the legislature, most Sheriffs or State Attorneys.

Grooming our Children to be sex trafficked. Florida has the 3^rd highest rate of sex trafficking in nation. According to a study by the Crimes Against Children Research Center at the University of New Hampshire, 93% of boys and 62% of girls are exposed to pornography before age 18.Young children who view pornography frequently disengage from their family and start to isolate more and often become withdrawn, sullen or depressed. Our school districts should not be aiding abetting these sexually explicit materials in public schools

The left accuses us of wanting to ban books. This is an accusation with no basis in fact or reality. It’s a smear.

In the first place Florida has obscenity laws for minors FS 847.012 and FS 847.001, age 18 and below, that make it 3^rd degree felony to distribute “Any book, pamphlet, magazine, printed matter however reproduced, or sound recording that contains any matter defined in s. 847.001, explicit and detailed verbal descriptions or narrative accounts of sexual excitement, or sexual conduct and that is harmful to minors.”

More importantly, this is a simple matter of protecting our children from harmful materials. Every day we protect our school children from guns, drugs, alcohol, tobacco, and other things that are prohibited for minors in our public schools. They also need our protection from harmful materials.

Governor DeSantis, these materials involving the sexual exploitation and obvious destruction of family values are equally if not more damaging to children than Critical Race Theory. Marxists and leftist ideologues use materials like this to destroy our families and Constitutional Republic. We urge you to provide the leadership we need so the Florida Legislature will protect our children.

Original signed by:

Rick Stevens and Keith Flaugh, Florida Citizens Alliance

Florida Groups supporting:

Pacific Justice Institute
The America Project
Proclaiming Justice to the Nation
Christian Family Coalition
Defend Florida 
Action for Life
Volusia 912
The Prism of America’s Education
Florida Republican Assembly
We the People of Northeast Florida
Martin 912 Tea Party Committee
Manatee Patriots
Conservative Business Journal, John Di Lemme
Republican Women SWFL Federated
Prayer On The Square- Ed Wilson
Save Our Schools America
Estero Republic Club
Florida Right To Life
Moms For America- Rebekah Ricks
Moms For Medical Freedom
Florida Patriots with a Purpose, Tracy Main
Lynda Bell
Florida Patriots with a Purpose
Lane Watkins
Dr. Karen L. Gushta, Broward FLCA.
Broward County Right to Life Foundation
Lori Bontell, Medical Freedom Coalition Board  and 
       Florida Republican Assembly Political Outreach Coordinator
Republican Liberty Caucus Florida
Kids First Lead County
Kids First St Lucie County
Winter Haven  912
The Florida Conservatives
American History in the Raw (AHR) Nancy Randolph 

ABOUT Florida Citizens

The Florida Citizens’ Alliance (FLCA) is a coalition of citizens and grassroots groups working together through education, outreach and community involvement to advance the ideals and principles of liberty.  We believe these include but are not limited to individual rights, free markets, and limited government.
FLCA VISION: Ro unleash the learning potential of every child in Florida.
FLCA Mission: To improve Florida’s k-12 education by empowering teachers, students and parents.