Gay book ban would limit theater

cw.ua.edu ^ | 01/10/05 | Nick Beadle

[Borges]

You are severely overestimating how easy it is to spot 'homosexual agenda'. Are legislators really going to dig into every novel or play looking for it? And supposing a stage director at one of these public theaters wants to stage a canonical work like 'The Merchant of Venice' or 'Hamlet' and stress those undertones? Will the goverment step in and tell him how he must interpret the material. What if they decide next that cold blooded murder is not to be depicted? This is a can of worms best left unopened IMO.

[little jeremiah]

From what I gather, what Allen wants to cut public funding from is not any reference to homosexuality (and the "cross dressing" in Shakespeare isn't exactly like the kind of "cross dressing" promoted by homosexuals), but literature/texts and so on that actively promote it. Propaganda and cultural depravity.

And why should the tax dollars of the citizens of AL (and all of ours, as it may include fed dollars as well) fund "gay" crap that we and they don't want to fund?

The gov't spends way, way, way too much money anyway.

[little jeremiah]

And if the public libraries are closed, so much the better. Let there be private libraries - people can pay a little to rent books, or so much a year, and people and organizations can donate money and books. Librarians are almost of them leftist ideologues anyway, and fight like the devil for the right of children to see porn on library computers.

[little jeremiah]

Yup. Mass is losing population, especially families. Real ones. And tax payers. Let the rest of them ferment in their own bile.

But, as you say, poor kids.

[Borges]

Public libraries are not what I would consider pork spending. Porn on library computers is a side issue that's easily dealt with. The loss of public libraries would be devestating to many kids and a complete break from an ages old great American tradition. Fundamental disagreement there.

[DBeers]

-below is the text of the Bill HB30

I assume it is homosexual activists that term HB30 the "Gay book ban" bill? I think you are overreacting -anything unjust etcetera will be open to review, challenge and voter scrutiny... I favor stomping out homosexual agenda a high priority....

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HB30

69114-1

By Representative Allen

RFD: Education

First Read: 01-FEB-05

PFD: 12/08/2004

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SYNOPSIS: Currently, the Title 16, Chapter 40A, Code

of Alabama 1975, (1) provides minimum content

standards to be included in any sex education

program or curriculum taught in Alabama public

schools including an emphasis, in a factual manner

and from a public health perspective, that

homosexuality is not a lifestyle acceptable to the

general public and that homosexual conduct is a

criminal offense under the laws of the state and

(2) provides that conduct that is illegal under

state law shall not be encouraged or proposed to

public school children in such a manner as to

indicate that they have a legitimate right to

decide or choose illegal conduct. However, the

state has no established policy restricting or

prohibiting the use of state funds for the purchase

of textbooks, library books, or other materials

that sanction, recognize, foster, or promote a

lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and

sexual misconduct laws of the state.

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This bill would prohibit the expenditure or

use of public funds or public facilities by any

state agency or public entity for the purchase,

production, or promotion of printed or electronic

materials or activities that sanction, recognize,

foster, or promote a lifestyle or actions

prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws

of the state.

A BILL

TO BE ENTITLED

AN ACT

To prohibit the expenditure or use of public funds

or public facilities by any state agency or public entity for

the purchase, production, or promotion of printed or

electronic materials or activities that sanction, recognize,

foster, or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the

sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of the state.

BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF ALABAMA:

Section 1. In order to establish and insure good

public policy and accountability in the use of state

resources, it shall be the policy of the state of Alabama

that:

(a) No public funds or public facilities shall be

used by any state agency, public school, public library, or

public college or university for the purchase, production, or

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promotion of printed or electronic materials or activities

that, directly or indirectly, sanction, recognize, foster, or

promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and

sexual misconduct laws of the state of Alabama. No public

funds shall be used for the purchase of textbooks or library

materials that recognize or promote homosexuality as an

acceptable lifestyle or encourages or proposes to public

school children that they have a legitimate right to decide or

choose illegal conduct.

(b) No state agency, public school, public library,

or public college or university, directly or indirectly, shall

require or encourage the entity’s members or employees to

provide information or materials or engage in any activities

that, directly or indirectly, sanction, recognize, foster, or

promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and

sexual misconduct laws of the state of Alabama.

(c) Any public employee who violates the provisions

of this section shall be guilty of a Class A misdemeanor.

(d) This section shall not be construed to be a

prior restraint of the First Amendment protected speech. It

shall apply only to state agencies, public schools, public

libraries, and public colleges and universities in the use of

public funds and public facilities.

Section 2. The provisions of this act are severable.

If any part of this act is declared invalid or

unconstitutional, that declaration shall not affect the part

which remains.

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Section 3. All laws or parts of laws which conflict

with this act are repealed.

Section 4. This act shall become effective on the

first day of the third month following its passage and

approval by the Governor, or its otherwise becoming law.

[little jeremiah]

Porn on libraries is not easily dealt with; quite the contrary. THere's been threads about it on FR several times. Leftist librarians defend the right of people to view porn on library computers to the death.

There are small towns that have local private libraries funded privately and quite cheap, could have sliding rates for low income. That way there's local control.