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We fought to abolish legal segregation (in these states) and eventually won. Keep fighting; we can win this too
Except it never happened here in Utah. Church and state are intertwined in every way here, the legislature withholds money from any schools that don't teach "christian" values or that try to include any actual truth about history. Everything here is controlled by the church, from what you buy in stores to how your kids can dress or talk or who they can hang out with.
Is that a hyperbole or is this factually correct? :(
Well it's a bit of hyperbole. But as an example, the legislature was considering a bill to demand that all schools have the 10 commandments prominently on display (whether christian, muslim, or any kind of school). There was such outcry from the public that they instead settled on a curriculum telling teachers they have to include teaching about the 10 commandments in every classroom instead.
After all how better to instill a sense of guilt and not living like Jesus than to force that down kids' throats at every turn?
Thanks… well, if there is no indoctrination people might even develop different opinions! /s
Exactly, it's one reason the mormon church does not encourage women to read or have opinions. They know that intelligence leads to discovering the church is a big sham.
So all of this is because the president of the organization is a Marxist lesbian? Does this mean we can start banning right wing organizations for having literal fascists at the helm?
The most pathetic thing about this is that the Nazis had to invent made up race "science" and conspiracy theories about jews to justify their book banning/burning, while the Republicans will do the same for "look, some people have different concepts about gender attributes than us"...
Here in shitty Baboon's-Ass Red utah, we have the same situation, the legislature is trying to make it easier to ban any book that may contain references to relationships, sexuality, or LGBTQ (yet apparently the mormon literature about polygamy can stay). Luckily there's been a lot of counter-revolutionary bookstores specifically offering "banned" books and LGBTQ books popping up around the state in response. They aren't state owned, so these miserable cretins are now meeting to find ways to shut them down for improper licensing, building regulations, or other made up problems.
we need to get every banned book into the hands of as many students as possible
I agree that we need to make sure kids have access to these books. I'm not sure they all need to real all of them, but if they are interested and want to read these books, they need to have that option.
It's so funny that (here in Utah) in the 8th grade, I was reading a new book that had just been published called "The Exorcist" (this was before the film came out). And one day my teacher said, I wasn't allowed to bring that book into class anymore, it was not considered "decent" reading material.
There is the word "masturbate" in the book "The Exorcist," but that's about the only "bad" word in it. And I knew what "masturbate" was long before i read that book. And I wasn't reading the book out loud to classmates or anything, I just thought it was so lame to be told I couldn't read it.
Kids are much smarter and more resilient than these book banners give them credit for. They can read adult themes in books without it "corrupting" them, and in fact, they need to have some knowledge of such things. The whole "banning" thing is such a political stunt, and it hurts kids the most.