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submitted 11 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 91 points 11 months ago

“It’s also created the paradox that under Iowa law, a 16-year-old student is old enough to consent to sex but not old enough to read about it in school,” Novack said.

I'll be interested in finding out how Iowa's lawyers try to pretzel themselves out of that one.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 44 points 11 months ago

1920s New York Mayor Jimmy Walker once vetoed a book ban. "No girl ever ended up in trouble [pregnant] because she was reading a book."

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 15 points 11 months ago

What about that girl yesterday who got addicted to porn because she read a book that had kissing? Checkmate liberals.

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 15 points 11 months ago

I'll add the link and an explanation.

Conservative book company sent an employee to a public meeting to claim that reading had driven her insane....

https://www.houstonpress.com/news/woman-fighting-scholastic-over-reported-porn-addiction-employed-by-scholastic-competitor-16954734

[-] AbidanYre@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months ago

Thanks for doing the legwork I was too lazy to do myself.

[-] NOT_RICK@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Crazy how easy it is to get the slut cooties

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago
[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 7 points 11 months ago

He was a corrupt Tammany Hall wheeler dealer who was mired in scandal. Fun guy to read about.

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

That pretty much describes every New York mayor for decades though, doesn't it?

[-] Dagwood222@lemm.ee 4 points 11 months ago

None of the others are fun to read about...

Except for LaGuardia,

https://youtu.be/Oq1nAQOQaSU?list=PL0E625A15E21FCA60

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