Post by t-bob on Dec 30, 2023 12:37:06 GMT -5
Rooney Report 12/30/24
BOOK BANNING: A federal judge in Iowa temporarily blocked the state’s Republican-backed law that bans books depicting and describing sex acts from public school libraries. Judge Stephen Locher said that the law “makes no attempt to target such books in any reasonable way.” He described the law as “one of the most bizarre laws I’ve ever read.”
Among books already removed from school libraries are George Orwell’s dystopian “1984,”, “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker, and “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley.
Judge Locher said the law “requires the wholesale removal of every book containing a description or visual depiction of a ‘sex act,’ regardless of context,” and that, “The underlying message is that there is no redeeming value to any such book even if it is a work of history, self-help guide, award-winning novel or other piece of serious literature. In effect, the Legislature has imposed a puritanical ‘pall of orthodoxy’ over school libraries.”
It sound weird but I didn't write it......
BOOK BANNING: A federal judge in Iowa temporarily blocked the state’s Republican-backed law that bans books depicting and describing sex acts from public school libraries. Judge Stephen Locher said that the law “makes no attempt to target such books in any reasonable way.” He described the law as “one of the most bizarre laws I’ve ever read.”
Among books already removed from school libraries are George Orwell’s dystopian “1984,”, “The Color Purple” by Alice Walker, and “Brave New World” by Aldous Huxley.
Judge Locher said the law “requires the wholesale removal of every book containing a description or visual depiction of a ‘sex act,’ regardless of context,” and that, “The underlying message is that there is no redeeming value to any such book even if it is a work of history, self-help guide, award-winning novel or other piece of serious literature. In effect, the Legislature has imposed a puritanical ‘pall of orthodoxy’ over school libraries.”
It sound weird but I didn't write it......