Posted on 02/22/2024 2:06:13 PM PST by CFW
ATLANTA – Legislation that would create a state council to set standards for books that could be banned from public school libraries as obscene cleared a Georgia Senate committee late Wednesday.
“This bill is about making sure our public school libraries are not places for kids to be exposed to sexually explicit materials,” Sen. Clint Dixon, R-Buford, chairman of the Senate Education and Youth Committee and the bill’s chief sponsor, said before the vote.
Senate Bill 394 would create the Georgia Council of Library Materials Standards, whose members would be appointed by the governor, lieutenant governor, speaker of the House, House minority leader, and Senate minority leader. The council would create a grading system that would be used to decide which books fit the legal definition of “harmful to minors” or “sexually explicit” and therefore should be banned.
Schools that fail to comply with the standards the council sets forth would not be subject to criminal charges. However, they would be subject to complaints from parents that potentially could lead to lawsuits.
Spokesman for several faith-based organizations spoke out in support of the bill Wednesday.
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Whoever keyworded the thread with *censorship* needs to be smacked down.
Keeping porn away from kids is NOT censorship.
And it’s not “banning;” parents can hop on Amazon and buy the books for their children, if they want them.
But, how else are you going to propagandize pre-pubescents into sterilizing themselves?
That’s what pUbLiC sKooling is for.
“Whoever keyworded the thread with *censorship* needs to be smacked down.”
LOL!
I added that keyword so the article would come up when someone searched for articles including the keyword “censorship”. Because, that is how the left is going to present the issue. Of course, keeping porn books out of school is NOT censorship anymore than keeping x-rated movies from being shown on “movie” day is censorship.
Although now that I think of it, many public school teachers WOULD probably love to show smut movies in class. I’m convinced many teachers now-a-days go into teaching because that is where the prey is located.
“book banning bill”
No bias there is there?
Book banning my ass. When I was a kid the high school library didn’t stock playboy. They didn’t have books in their teaching young boys how to take it up the Wazoo from other boys, complete with graphic drawings. Bunch of damn perverts. I’ll go one further, those bans should extend to publication of those books.
That would’ve been prosecuted as obscenity back in the 50s and 60s. And America was much more free back then.
And fire the librarians who are picking these books for libraries. That’s the root of the problem.
First in line for being tossed:
1. Any bible published before the 1960s...
2. Any book containing, or referring to, the former Constitution or the Bill of Rights...
3. All books containing hateful terms like “he”, “him”, “she”, her...
4. All publications that contain more than 10% of the pictures representing persons of non-color...
When we cleaned out my late in-laws’ house, my husband grabbed all the old KJV Bibles. Those from both his parents, her mother, and I’m not sure from whom else were brought to our house. I’m glad we have them for future generations. We do not trust publishers not to change the verses without any notification and want to make sure the older versions are available for our grand-children.
Today’s question from children:
“What is a book?”
A sad trend.
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It goes to show how far we've fallen when it takes legislative action to force people to do what is right in the first place.
Yeah, the left will scream censorship while they hypocritically continue to ban the Bible and books like *To Kill a Mockingbird*.
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