Penguin Random House and bestselling authors sue Iowa over school book-banning law
Penguin Random House and bestselling authors sue Iowa over school book-banning law
The publishing giant and four authors — including John Green and Jodi Picoult — joined several teachers, a student and the state's teachers union in filing the federal lawsuit.
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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“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.
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."
What about that girl yesterday who got addicted to porn because she read a book that had kissing? Checkmate liberals.
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....
Thanks for doing the legwork I was too lazy to do myself.
Crazy how easy it is to get the slut cooties
"He was probably a liberal!"
He was a corrupt Tammany Hall wheeler dealer who was mired in scandal. Fun guy to read about.
That pretty much describes every New York mayor for decades though, doesn't it?
None of the others are fun to read about...
Except for LaGuardia,