Posted on 05/22/2023 1:21:34 AM PDT by Libloather
As parents and educators fight over book bans, five states have enacted criminal punishments for librarians who allow children to access 'obscene' materials - with a dozen states considering similar actions.
The laws could subject librarians to significant penalties, including imprisonment and hefty fines, for providing sexually explicit, obscene or books deemed 'harmful' to children.
At least seven state legislatures have passed these laws over the past two years, with six of them doing so in the last two months, although the governors of Idaho and North Dakota vetoed similar legislation.
The laws are pending in nine other states but so far there have been no instances in which a school staffer has been charged under the new laws.
Around a dozen states have also considered more than 20 similar bills this year alone with approximately half of them expecting to be reintroduced in 2024.
Laws in Idaho and Arkansas, Indiana, Missouri, North Dakota and Oklahoma could result in fines or imprisonment, or both, for school employees and librarians.
Tennessee's law goes further than just librarians and targets schools, book publishers and vendors who sell the books to schools in the first place.
The new laws put librarians in the firing line, whereas previously, they were exempt from prosecution over obscene materials in almost every state.
All but one of the new laws primarily targets schools, but some also include the staff of public libraries, with one specifically targeting book vendors.
The laws are also difficult to navigate as they do not specifically explain what would count as obscene and suggest such judgments be decided by the courts.
However, the very presence of the laws could create a 'climate of fear' among school librarians leading to censorship particularly on books about and penned by LGBTQ people.
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I think it’s a roundabout way of banning the Bible. If explicit sex is banned, the Bible should be banned for its sexual imagery. So to speak.
They do
They are evil
Rhe Holy Bible relates cases of rape and sodomy, but as a matter of historical fact. It does NOT give instructions on how to commit such acts, and has no pictures.
Yes, but the liberals will argue that they should be able to have stories of rape on the bookshelves if the Bible is allowed to be in schools.
I trust these evil people are punished.
Include a clause that all books with a 1st published date prior to 1900 A.D. are exempt from the law.
They are starting to do so.
https://www.sltrib.com/news/education/2023/03/22/utah-parent-says-bible-contains/
Some nutbag in FL is making the a similar argument...
Groomers gonna groom.
Every library has finite space, so every book on the shelf is by choice of the librarians.
“Yeah, it’s porn. And the groomers should know better, but they don’t.”
The Librarians have ALWAYS been Groomers. I remember 15 or 20 years ago, when we wanted to put porn filters on their computers that children use. They screamed and howled, which told me all that I needed to know about this bunch.
Democrat Kiddie Rapers are busy..
I remember school library books that had a few bawdy passages in them back in 1961, yet today the books they want to place in school libraries appear to have come from 1970s porn shops.
Whats up with the author putting obscene and harmful in quotes? Lol
Probably doesnt have kids in school at all.
Can’t do the time? Don’t do the crime.
I think the librarians are specified because that group has a large marxist majority in their membership and controlling all their organized groups. Scratch a librarian in a school and chances are there is a communist underneath.
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