Foreskins for Freedom: Danielle Smith’s Family-Friendly Apocalypse

Premier Danielle Smith wants to protect Alberta’s children from the horrors of Judy Blume, Alice Munro, and a stray queer kiss in a YA novel. But there’s one book she’ll never ban: the Bible.

The irony? Crack it open and you’ll find stories drenched in blood, lust, betrayal, mutilation, and pimped-out daughters — the kind of material that would give Stephen King or Margaret Atwood a run for their money.

Take 1 Samuel 18. Saul demands 100 foreskins as a dowry for his daughter. David, overachiever that he is, brings back 200. That’s not obscenity, apparently — that’s scripture.

So what makes a book “dangerous”? What makes it “safe”? And what does it say about our politics when mutilated genitals, mass rape, and murder are considered moral education, while contemporary literature is treated like radioactive waste?

I dig into the grotesque, hilarious hypocrisy in my latest piece: https://troynahumko.substack.com/p/foreskins-for-freedom