'I Got A New Strap-on Harness Today': Watch Louisiana Senator John Kennedy Read Explicit Passages at Book Ban Hearing

Louisiana Republican Senator John Kennedy made his colleagues, witnesses, and staffers squirm in their seats as he read explicit passages from two novels at a Senate hearing earlier today, RadarOnline.com has learned.

Kennedy cherry-picked passages from two literary works before interrupting and condemning witnesses when they attempted to answer his questions.

The Senate hearing covering free speech and book bans wasn't short of shocking moments thanks to Kennedy's eagerness to present passages out of context. Despite neither novel being published as a children's book, Kennedy made it appear the books were being read to young children.

Kennedy began with a graphic passage from George M. Johnson's All Boys Aren't Blue, a collection of essays published as young adult non-fiction, about the author's upbringing as a queer Black man in New Jersey and Virginia.

"I put some lube on and got him on his knees, and I began to slide into him from behind," Kennedy began reading. "I pulled out of him and kissed him while he masturbated. He asked me to turn over while he slipped a condom on himself. This was my a-- and I was struggling to imagine someone inside me."

While the room sat in awkward silence, Kennedy quickly followed one shocking excerpt with another as he read a passage from the next book, Maia Kobabe's Gender Queer, an autobiographical comic.

"I got a new strap-on harness today," Kennedy read with delight to the room. "I can't wait to put it on you. It will fit my favorite d---- perfectly."

Kennedy added, "I can't wait to have your c--- in my mouth."

The room continued to sit in silence before Kennedy blasted the witnesses for their reasoning for testifying at the hearing.

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"Now, Mr. Secretary, what are you asking us to do? Are you suggesting that only librarians should decide whether the two books I just referenced should be available to kids? Is that what you're saying?" Kennedy asked, to which the witness immediately answered, "No."

"Okay, tell me what you're saying," Kennedy followed up with another question for the witness, who attempted to answer before the senator cut him off and yelled, "Don't give me a speech!"

"With all due respect Senator, the words you spoke are disturbing, especially coming out of your mouth is very disturbing," the witness told Kennedy. "But what I'll also tell you, is that we're not advocating for kids to read porn."