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Judge blocks Arkansas law allowing librarians to be criminally charged over ‘harmful’ materials (apnews.com)

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A federal judge has temporarily blocked Arkansas from enforcing a law that would have allowed criminal charges against librarians and booksellers for providing “harmful” materials to minors.

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[–] buddhabound 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

The courts did not return them. The school board did. The same shits that said certain books were pornographic determined that a text (Bible) with worse stuff in it was fine.

According to that school board:
Religious books with gay sex = fine.
Other books with gay characters= not fine

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Edited! Thank you for the correction. I was clearly too tired when I posted.