West Virginia bill allowing librarians to be prosecuted over 'obscene' books moves forward
West Virginia bill allowing librarians to be prosecuted over 'obscene' books moves forward
I think a book telling a story about two daughters who get their dad drunk and have sex with them is obscene. Let’s see them ban that one.
That sounds disgusting. Certainly no god fearing person would read such a book /s
Certainly no god fearing person would read such a book
It's pretty clear that most of them don't (or can't...)
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Yes, I saw the /s.
Don't gang rape these two strangers, rape my young virgin daughters instead!
But if we send these librarians to prison and they work in the prison library, won’t they just emerge as stronger criminals upon release?
This is a catastrophe - a complete affront to the very idea of the First Amendment.
I'm trying to picture the worst thing that could happen to someone reading a book. You can always stop reading as soon as you sense your fee fees getting hurt.
The Bible is a book and it's done some major damage.
I'd say it's book club members who haven't read it or only read some parts and ignore the rest are the ones doing the damage.
LA central library has a banned book display. So happy not to live around the lovers of livestock
I've read a few banned books. I always feel like I've been tricked into reading something mediocre. Most of them are banned simply because they contain a paragraph people didn't like, not because the message or theme of the book is controversial.
I'm sure horrifically violent books are fine but anything to do with human sexuality and it's shocked gasps and clutched pearls.
All because these festering ball sacks think being LGBTQ is a choice. I want to slap some empathy and decency into every one of them.
So now librarians either quit, yank anything that might be considered "obscene" (see below), or end up with a felony conviction and $25,000 poorer. All so bigots can pass on their bigotry to children to make this world shittier for LGBTQ people.
How is 'obscene matter' defined?
West Virginia State Code defines obscene matter as anything "an average person believes depicts or describes sexually explicit conduct," including nudity, sex or certain bodily functions.
It's also defined by "anything a reasonable person would find lacks serious literary, artistic, political or scientific value," according to the bill.
but anything to do with human sexuality and it's shocked gasps and clutched pearls
Unless it's a little drunk father-daughter incest, that's totally kosher
Fucking backward degenerates. Republicans are a waste of carbon.
There is no place in a modern society for conservatives.