The nation’s largest publisher and several bestselling authors, including novelists John Green and Jodi Picoult, are part of a lawsuit filed Thursday challenging Iowa’s new law that bans public school libraries and classrooms from having practically any book that depicts sexual activity.
The lawsuit is the second in the past week to challenge the law, which bans books with sexual content all the way through 12th grade. An exception is allowed for religious texts.
Penguin Random House and four authors joined several teachers, a student and the Iowa State Education Association — the state’s teachers union representing 50,000 current and former public school educators — in filing the federal lawsuit.
^bans books with sexual content all the way through 12th grade. An exception is allowed for religious texts.
Let’s go ahead and add a first ammendment challenge in there for respecting The establishment of religion in there as well.
And since it’s all books I guess you’ll need to rewrite your biology curriculum to remove anything related to sex as well.
Don’t give them any ideas.
Yeah they’ve opposed sex ed since it was a new concept. Even now that we know it reduces teen pregnancy and teen sexual activity rates when done correctly they insist on banning it or doing it in a way that increases these things.
Now I should add, idgaf if teens are fucking each other so long as it’s between consenting peers and they’re not spreading disease or skipping out on their education for it. But these people do have a problem with it and so good sex ed should be a no brainer.
Meanwhile these people probably want to censor the reproductive systems of plants