Source: LifeSiteNews.com
A Virginia school board member attracted the headlines he was undoubtedly seeking after he was sworn in by placing his hand not on the Bible but on a stack of sexually explicit LGBT books frequently condemned by conservatives concerned about protecting children’s innocence.
Democrat Karl Frisch participated in the swearing-in ceremony on Wednesday for the Fairfax County, Virginia school board by using five books that contain offensive and sometimes extremely graphic sexual depictions including “Gender Queer,” “Flamer,” and “All Boys Aren’t Blue.”
The Washington Examiner reported that Frisch, Fairfax County’s first openly LGBT-identifying school board member, is currently the vice chairman of the board and is set to become the chairman on January 1.
While Frisch’s swearing-in using the sexually explicit books targeted at young people is valid (the U.S. Constitution doesn’t require the use of Bibles and actually prohibits the use of any “religious Test … as a Qualification to any Office or public Trust,”) the stunt has been interpreted as both a deliberate insult to religious residents and a good reason for parents to consider homeschooling.
Fairfax GOP wrote on social media that Frisch “went out of his way to insult Fairfax County’s people of faith Wednesday night.”…