Democrats Shield Sexually Explicit Books from Parental Removal—Your Kindergartener Can Access Them Without Your Knowledge
In my article documenting Virginia’s Perfect Storm, I warned that Virginia Democrats are systematically attacking God’s created order on multiple fronts. HB614 represents the classroom indoctrination front—mandating LGBTQ+ curriculum for every Virginia public school student. Virginia Senate Bill 19, sponsored by Sen. Mamie E. Locke (D-Richmond), represents the library front—shielding sexually explicit books from parental removal efforts and creating a stealth pipeline of corruption directly into your children’s minds.
Track the bill: https://lis.virginia.gov/bill-details/20261/SB19
SB19 passed the Senate Education and Health Committee (8-5-1) and is advancing rapidly. If it becomes law, Virginia parents will lose their ability to remove sexually explicit books—including LGBT-themed sexual content—from elementary school libraries. Your six-year-old will be able to check out graphic books depicting sexual acts, and you won’t even be notified.
This is by design. Democrats understand that if they can’t mandate explicit sexual content in the classroom (parents might object), they’ll make it freely available in the library—where curious children explore on their own, without parental oversight.
What Virginia SB19 Actually Does
SB19 is titled “DOE; policies relating to instructional material that contains sexually explicit content.” The bill amends Virginia’s 2022 law requiring parental notification when students are exposed to sexually explicit instructional material.
Here’s what SB19 does—and why it matters:
- REDEFINES “INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIAL” TO EXCLUDE LIBRARY BOOKS
SB19 narrows the definition of “instructional material” to only include materials “assigned and provided to a student by a public school teacher directly for the completion of an assignment or curricular objective.”
The bill explicitly states that “instructional material” does NOT include “any book or audiovisual material available in a public school library unless specifically required or assigned by a public school teacher directly for completion of an assignment or curricular objective.”
Translation: As long as a sexually explicit book sits on the library shelf and isn’t formally “assigned,” it’s not considered “instructional material.” That means the 2022 parental notification law doesn’t apply. Your child can check out graphic sexual content, and you’ll never know.
- FORBIDS USING PARENTAL NOTIFICATION LAW TO REMOVE BOOKS
SB19 goes further than just excluding library books from notification requirements. It explicitly prohibits using the sexually explicit content law as grounds for removing books from school libraries.
The bill states that nothing in the applicable law or any Department of Education model policy or local school board policy “shall be (a) construed to permit the censoring of books in any public elementary or secondary school or (b) utilized as a rationale or basis for the removal of books from any public elementary or secondary school.”
Translation: Even if parents identify sexually explicit books in elementary school libraries and demand their removal under Virginia’s parental notification law, SB19 forbids schools from acting. The law explicitly prevents “censoring” or “removing” books—even pornographic ones—from children’s access.
- WALLS OFF THE LIBRARY FROM PARENTAL AUTHORITY
Here’s the full mechanism SB19 creates:
- Sexually explicit books in elementary school libraries are NOT “instructional material” (no parental notification)
- Parents cannot use the 2022 law to demand their removal (explicitly forbidden)
- School librarians can recommend graphic books to curious kindergarteners and first-graders
- Children check out books depicting same-sex relationships, gender fluidity, and sexual acts
- Parents discover what their child brought home AFTER the exposure has already occurred
- When parents object, they’re told the law forbids “censoring” library books
This is stealth sex education. Democrats can claim they’re not “teaching” explicit sexual content to kindergarteners—because technically, teachers aren’t assigning it. But the content is still accessible, still recommended by school staff, still checked out by curious children whose innocence is being systematically destroyed.
But here’s why this matters biblically: God entrusted parents—not school librarians, not the state—with the responsibility to guard their children’s purity.
Why This Matters: God’s Design for Sexual Purity and Parental Authority
Scripture is explicit about protecting children’s innocence and the dangers of sexual immorality.
Philippians 4:8: “Finally, brothers, whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
God commands His people to fix their minds on what is pure—not on sexual immorality, not on graphic depictions of sin, not on content that celebrates rebellion against His design.
When a six-year-old checks out a library book depicting same-sex relationships or gender confusion, that child’s mind is being trained to think about what Scripture calls impure. The images, the narratives, the normalization of sexual sin—these shape a child’s understanding of sexuality for life.
SB19 gives school libraries permission to fill children’s minds with what is dishonorable, unjust, impure, and worthy of condemnation—and forbids parents from stopping it.
Matthew 18:6: “But whoever causes one of these little ones who believe in me to sin, it would be better for him to have a great millstone fastened around his neck and to be drowned in the depth of the sea.”
Jesus reserves His harshest condemnation for those who lead children into sin. When school libraries stock sexually explicit books and make them accessible to elementary students, they are causing little ones to sin. They are training children to embrace what God calls abomination.
SB19 shields those who corrupt children from accountability. It protects the books, the librarians, the system—but not the children.
Deuteronomy 6:6-7: “And these words that I command you today shall be on your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, and when you walk by the way, and when you lie down, and when you rise.”
God commands parents—not the state, not school boards, not librarians—to teach children His truth. Parents are responsible for shaping their children’s understanding of sexuality, marriage, and purity.
SB19 undermines parental authority by making sexually explicit content accessible to children without parental knowledge or consent. When a seven-year-old checks out a graphic book from the school library, the school has usurped the parent’s God-given role.
Ephesians 6:4: “Fathers, do not provoke your children to anger, but bring them up in the discipline and instruction of the Lord.”
Parents are commanded to bring children up in the instruction of the LORD—not the instruction of LGBTQ+ activists, not the “inclusive” narratives of progressive librarians, not the sexual ideologies promoted by Democrats in Richmond.
When Virginia law prevents parents from removing sexually explicit books from elementary school libraries, it prevents parents from fulfilling Ephesians 6:4. It forces Christian parents to choose: homeschool, private school, or surrender their children to state-sanctioned corruption.
Now, let me address the most common objection—and we need to address it honestly:
“Don’t Students Deserve Access to Diverse Books and Freedom to Read?”
Here’s the strongest version of the opposition argument:
“SB19 protects students’ freedom to read and prevents censorship. Parents who want to ban LGBTQ+ books are imposing their religious beliefs on everyone else’s children. Public school libraries should reflect the diversity of families and identities, including LGBTQ+ voices. Removing these books erases queer students and makes them feel unsafe. SB19 ensures that all students can access literature that reflects their lived experiences.”
I acknowledge that supporters genuinely believe they’re protecting vulnerable students. But here’s why the “freedom to read” argument fails:
First, children do not have unrestricted “freedom to read” sexually explicit material. Virginia law already recognizes that minors cannot consent to sexual activity, view pornography, or purchase explicit materials. We restrict children’s access to harmful content because they lack the maturity to process it.
The question isn’t whether children should have “freedom to read”—it’s whether elementary school libraries should stock sexually explicit books and make them accessible to six-year-olds without parental knowledge.
Second, this isn’t about “diversity”—it’s about sexual content. SB19 specifically addresses sexually explicit material. Supporters conflate objecting to graphic sexual content with “banning LGBTQ+ voices.” But parents aren’t objecting to books that mention gay characters—they’re objecting to books that depict sexual acts, normalize gender confusion, and celebrate what Scripture condemns.
There’s a massive difference between a book that happens to include a same-sex couple and a book that graphically depicts sexual activity or encourages children to question their biological sex. SB19 shields both from removal.
Third, “lived experiences” is code for normalizing sexual sin. When supporters claim LGBTQ+ students need books reflecting their “lived experiences,” they’re asserting that celebrating same-sex relationships and gender fluidity is necessary for student wellbeing.
But Romans 1:26-27 and 1 Corinthians 6:9 explicitly condemn homosexual practice as sin. Scripture doesn’t celebrate “diverse sexual identities”—it calls people to repentance and offers transformation through Christ.
Stocking library shelves with books that affirm LGBTQ+ identity isn’t compassion—it’s leading children into bondage to sin.
Fourth, SB19 doesn’t just prevent “book banning”—it prevents parental authority. Even if a parent discovers their child checked out a sexually explicit book, SB19 forbids using Virginia’s parental notification law as grounds for removal. The parent can’t appeal to the school board. They can’t demand accountability. The law explicitly protects the books—not the children.
This isn’t “freedom to read.” It’s state-enforced exposure to sexual content over parental objection.
Finally, the Bible is clear about purity. Proverbs 22:6 commands: “Train up a child in the way he should go; even when he is old he will not depart from it.” Training children in purity means protecting them from sexually explicit content—not making it freely available in school libraries.
SB19 ensures children are trained in sexual immorality instead of biblical purity. And it forbids parents from intervening.
Now, let me address Virginia pastors directly:
Dear Pastor: What Feeds Your Flock’s Minds?
If you’re a Virginia pastor and you faithfully preach God’s Word, the question is not whether you teach Scripture—but whether you have made room in the pulpit for what is feeding your flock’s minds every single day.
Your congregation spends hours daily consuming content: social media, streaming services, news, podcasts, books. Their children do the same. What shapes their understanding of sexuality, purity, and God’s design? Is it Scripture—or the culture?
And specifically: Have you addressed what’s happening in Virginia school libraries right down the street from your church? Your congregation includes parents whose elementary-age children attend schools where SB19 will shield sexually explicit books from removal. Kindergarteners who can check out graphic sexual content without their parents’ knowledge. Families who desperately need biblical guidance on protecting their children’s purity.
Yet in many churches, threats like SB19 are never mentioned from the pulpit. The battle for your flock’s minds—and their children’s souls—rages daily, but too often, anything touching “politics” or “culture wars” is avoided, even when it’s really about biblical purity, parental authority, and the protection of innocence.
Meanwhile, Virginia Democrats are walling off school libraries from parental oversight. While you preach on the love of Christ, the state is ensuring elementary students have unrestricted access to books celebrating sexual sin—and forbidding parents from removing them.
Here’s the reality: If the pulpit doesn’t speak to what feeds people’s minds—if you don’t address SB19, if you don’t equip parents to guard their children’s purity, if you don’t call your congregation to action—how will you win and guard their hearts and souls?
Philippians 4:8 commands: “Whatever is true, whatever is honorable, whatever is just, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is commendable, if there is any excellence, if there is anything worthy of praise, think about these things.”
If you’re not teaching your congregation to apply Philippians 4:8 to what their children encounter in school libraries, who will? If you’re not equipping parents to defend their children’s purity against SB19, where will they turn?
Proverbs 31:8-9 commands: “Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy.”
Children in Virginia public schools cannot speak for themselves in the legislature. Parents fighting to remove sexually explicit books need you to defend their God-given authority. Elementary students whose innocence is being destroyed by stealth exposure to sexual content need you to guard them.
Will you speak up? Or will you remain silent while Virginia opens a pipeline of corruption directly into the minds of the children in your congregation?
What You Can Do RIGHT NOW to Stop SB19
SB19 passed the Senate Education and Health Committee on January 22, 2026, and is advancing rapidly through the Senate. It is NOT too late to stop this bill—but you must act NOW.
First, contact your state senator immediately.
Find your senator: https://whosmy.virginiageneralassembly.gov/
Call their office. Email them. Say this:
“I am your constituent and a Christian parent who believes God entrusted parents—not school librarians—with authority over children’s moral formation. SB19 shields sexually explicit books from parental removal and creates a stealth pipeline for corrupting children’s minds. Philippians 4:8 commands us to think on what is pure—not on graphic sexual content. I demand you vote NO on SB19.”
Second, show up at Senate hearings when SB19 comes to the floor.
Public testimony matters. When parents share how SB19 undermines their authority and exposes children to harmful content, legislators listen. Track the bill’s progress and attend hearings.
Track hearings: https://lis.virginia.gov
Third, mobilize your church NOW.
Print copies of this article. Share it with your small group. Host a prayer meeting focused on protecting children’s purity and defending parental authority. Organize church members to contact senators together.
Fourth, demand your pastor address this from the pulpit.
Email this article to your pastor. Ask him to preach on Philippians 4:8, parental authority, and the spiritual battle over children’s minds this Sunday. If your pastor refuses, ask him why protecting children from sexually explicit library books isn’t worth his prophetic voice.
Fifth, pressure your local school board while you still can.
Even if SB19 passes, local school boards can adopt policies restricting sexually explicit content in libraries. Attend school board meetings. Demand age-appropriate book selection policies. Hold your board accountable for what children can access.
For more on biblical sexuality and God’s design for the family, visit our Biblical Sexuality category and God Ordained Family category.
This Is Spiritual Warfare for Your Children’s Purity
Ephesians 6:12 reminds us: “For we do not wrestle against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers over this present darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly places.”
This isn’t just bad education policy. This is spiritual warfare over your children’s purity and their understanding of God’s design for sexuality.
Satan hates purity because God is pure. Every child exposed to sexually explicit content in elementary school libraries, every kindergartener taught that gender is fluid, every parent stripped of authority to protect their children—is a victory for the enemy.
But we serve the God of purity. 1 Thessalonians 4:3-5 declares, “For this is the will of God, your sanctification: that you abstain from sexual immorality; that each one of you know how to control his own body in holiness and honor, not in the passion of lust like the Gentiles who do not know God.”
When we fight SB19, when we demand protection for children’s purity, when we defend parental authority—we align ourselves with God’s will for sanctification.
You are not helpless. Contact your senator. Show up at hearings. Mobilize your church. Pressure your school board.
And guard your children’s minds from the stealth pipeline Virginia Democrats are building through SB19.
