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If the bill passes, library personnel face potential $500 fines and prison terms of up to one year if they willfully violate provisions established in the measure. And if this bill becomes law, libraries may lose all of their funding.
And the law raises concerns among organizations that work to defend freedom of expression.
This is a shockingly transparent attempt to legalize book banning in the state of Missouri, said James Tager, deputy director of free expression research and policy for PEN America, a nonprofit that works to defend free speech. This act is clearly aimed at empowering small groups of parents to appoint themselves as censors over their states public libraries. Books wrestling with sexual themes, books uplifting LGBTQA+ characters, books addressing issues such as sexual assault all of these books are potentially on the chopping block if this bill is passed.
[link:https://deadstate.org/missouri-republican-pushes-bill-that-could-jail-librarians-for-handing-out-inappropriate-books/|]
Hell, why don't they go the whole hog...
Freedom stealers. Theocratic takers. If they get their way they will end up as bad as ISIS
Power is in tearing human minds to pieces and putting them together again in new shapes of your own choosing.
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)jberryhill
(62,444 posts)People seem to forget what was the majority religion of Hitlers Germany.
superpatriotman
(6,253 posts)Not him
malaise
(269,237 posts)Fuck off theocrat
PandoraAwakened
(905 posts)Has anyone else ever noticed how everytime we see one of these mega-church bible-thumpers in the news for shit like this, we can pretty much start a countdown clock from there to the inevitable next major headline:
3, 2, 1...
"Minister Leading Book Banning Effort Arrested Today on Pedophilia Charges"
BAM! You know I'm right.
Wawannabe
(5,685 posts)I got the hell outta that state.
2016 saw the entire state go red. No one at the national level helped keep Claire McCaskill in her seat and the rest is history.
The Democratic party has no offices in rural MO - even Springfield where I moved from did not staff an office. Had one, but no one was home. For so many years we had at least one Dem Senator and would also elect a Dem gov. Its all red now and even the two biggest cities which tend blue cant turn the tide back.
That state is lost.