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<blockquote data-quote="Buck" data-source="post: 8912762" data-attributes="member: 591582">[USER=683408]@RobGMN[/USER] Here&#039;s it all laid out about how it&#039;s the democrats pushing lgbt and ****/explicit books in schools:&quot;Democrats criticized the hearing as leaning into culture war topics to attack public education, and said that those <a href="https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/10/06/first-amendment-advocates-fight-growing-number-of-u-s-book-bans/" target="_blank">tactics resulted in book bans</a>. Republicans argued that books were not being banned because those that are removed at public schools can be bought elsewhere.&quot;&quot;Bean argued that the books are not being removed because they tell stories about the *****+ community, but because “it’s explicit content.”&quot;&quot;Utah GOP Rep. Burgess Owens criticized “All Boys Aren’t Blue” for containing ******. The book, which is a young adult nonfiction memoir with essays about Johnson’s life growing up as a queer Black man in New Jersey and Virginia, has a section where the author talks about how a family member sexually assaulted him when he was a child.The other book, “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” a young adult comic book by Kobabe about Kobabe’s path to gender-identity as nonbinary and queer. Republicans argued that the book was inappropriate because it depicts oral ***.&quot;[URL unfurl=&quot;true&quot;]https://kansasreflector.com/2023/10/22/u-s-house-republicans-target-explicit-books-in-school-libraries/[/URL]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Buck, post: 8912762, member: 591582"] [USER=683408]@RobGMN[/USER] Here's it all laid out about how it's the democrats pushing lgbt and ****/explicit books in schools: "[B]Democrats criticized the hearing[/B] as leaning into culture war topics to attack public education, and said that those [URL='https://ohiocapitaljournal.com/2023/10/06/first-amendment-advocates-fight-growing-number-of-u-s-book-bans/']tactics resulted in book bans[/URL]. Republicans argued that books were not being banned because those that are removed at public schools can be bought elsewhere." "Bean argued that the books are not being removed because they tell stories about the *****+ community, but because “it’s explicit content.”" "Utah GOP Rep. Burgess Owens criticized “All Boys Aren’t Blue” for containing ******. The book, which is a young adult nonfiction memoir with essays about Johnson’s life growing up as a queer Black man in New Jersey and Virginia, has a section where the author talks about how a family member sexually assaulted him when he was a child. The other book, “Gender Queer: A Memoir,” a young adult comic book by Kobabe about Kobabe’s path to gender-identity as nonbinary and queer. Republicans argued that the book was inappropriate because it depicts oral ***." [URL unfurl="true"]https://kansasreflector.com/2023/10/22/u-s-house-republicans-target-explicit-books-in-school-libraries/[/URL] [/QUOTE]

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