On November 14, a 20-year-old woman named Lanah Burkhardt appeared before the school board of the Conroe Independent School District in Texas. Burkhardt told the board that, when she was 11, she read a Scholastic book that introduced her to "a single kiss." According to Burkhardt, her exposure to this Scholastic book was directly responsible for her developing a debilitating addiction to pornography.
I love using that story to counter the “modern books are smut, have kids read the Bible” folks. Either that or the story of Dinah.
To those who don’t know it. Dinah was raped. Her rapist decided he wanted to marry her and, being such a “nice guy,” asked her brothers for permission. They agreed, but only if he and all men in the town were circumcised. The guy agreed and, being the prince, ordered all men to get circumcised. When all the men were “indisposed,” the brothers came in, killed all the men, took the women and children as slaves, and took all their possessions.
Their father, Jacob, was angry with how they acted because they “caused trouble” and it could result in other tribes attacking them. Apparently, he was fine with his daughter being raped because the story just moves on to other things.
So this is just a normal everyday kid’s story with rape, theft, and murder! Perfectly acceptable for any child to read because at least two guys didn’t kiss!!!
Nobody accused Jacob of being an attentive and loving father to all of his children