Kansas City LGBT Activist Justice Horn Rebukes Suspected Northland Book Ban Creeper

A powerful statement by a rising star KCMO activist calling out alleged hypocrisy has earned mainstream media attention.

Here's the word and a followup on a controversial local case . . .

Kansas City LGBTQ advocate Justice Horn, who was the first out Black student president at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, was present at the November school board meeting where Utterback spoke.

“The moral of this story is that book bans do not protect children,” Horn said of the allegations against Utterback. “Moreover, the people pushing book bans are not protecting children, and every lawmaker should take note.”

The “heroes” of the story, Horn said, are the North Kansas City students who spoke before the school board to fight against these bans.

“They are ensuring none of our stories are erased,” he continued. “We’ll be reading about them long after the people looking to ban books are out of the picture.”

Read more via www.TonysKansasCity.com link . . .

LGBTQ book ban proponent faces felony child molestation charge in Missouri

A Missouri man who sought to ban several LGBTQ books from schools for depicting sexual content is now facing a felony charge of second-degree child molestation. Ryan Utterback, a 29-year-old parent from a suburb of Kansas City, also faces a misdemeanor charge of fourth-degree domestic assault and, in a separate case, a misdemeanor of furnishing or attempting to furnish pornographic material to a minor.