A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives

[usonian]

https://bookriot.com/hr7661-book-ban-legislation/

Hours after the State of the Union address, House republicans introduced legislation banning LGBTQ+ books from public schools nationwide.

Apparently, ass-kissing is found to be "non-sexual". UNLESS IT'S IN A BOOK!!

Following this week’s State of the Union Address, House Republicans worked quickly to advance legislation to ban books from public schools nationwide. House Resolution 7661 (H.R. 7661), also known as the “Stop the Sexualization of Children Act” would modify the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 by prohibiting use of funds under the act “to develop, implement, facilitate, host, or promote any program or activity for, or to provide or promote literature or other materials to, children under the age of 18 that includes sexually oriented material, and for other purposes.” The bill was introduced by House Representative Mary Miller (Republican, Illinois). 17 additional Representatives cosigned it.

H.R. 7661 is an anti-trans bill, and tucked within its provisions are those that ban books for those under 18 that “include sexually oriented material.” This is the same vague language used in numerous states across the U.S. to ban books from public schools and public libraries. This bill includes “lewd” and “lascivious” dancing as prohibited topics or themes. No such books for young readers exist, but facts don’t matter to a regime seeking total and complete control.

The bill goes on to further define “sexually oriented material” as anything broaching the topics of “gender dysphoria or transgenderism.” The latter is an intentionally harmful word used as a cudgel to harm trans people. Such a broad definition also ensures that this kind of bill could be applicable in any situation where it would benefit the banners. It isn’t a stretch to see a bill like this used to outright ban all books by or about LGBTQ+ people under the guise of it being “sexually oriented.”

Though this legislation would apply to institutions using funds from the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965, there’s little question that it would expand to include all public libraries, not just those in public schools. We’ve already seen this very thing play out across the country.

Here are the clucks co-sponsoring the bill.

Rep. Downing, Troy [R-MT-2]*
Rep. Fine, Randy [R-FL-6]*
Rep. Steube, W. Gregory [R-FL-17]*
Rep. Gosar, Paul A. [R-AZ-9]*
Rep. Ogles, Andrew [R-TN-5]*
Rep. Hageman, Harriet M. [R-WY-At Large]*
Rep. Stutzman, Marlin A. [R-IN-3]*
Rep. Moore, Barry [R-AL-1]*
Rep. Biggs, Sheri [R-SC-3]*
Rep. Letlow, Julia [R-LA-5]*
Rep. Tenney, Claudia [R-NY-24]*
Rep. Roy, Chip [R-TX-21]*
Rep. Davidson, Warren [R-OH-8]*
Rep. Weber, Randy K. Sr. [R-TX-14]*
Rep. Rose, John W. [R-TN-6]*
Rep. Owens, Burgess [R-UT-4]*
Rep. Self, Keith [R-TX-3]*

[wcmagumba]

1. OMG, someone might read a book these pukes don't like...

[Iris]

2. Did Trump talk about books in public schools in his speech?

I'm just curious about the timing

[Moostache]

3. Easiest way to get teens to do ANYTHING?

Tell them they can't do said thing...

[hvn_nbr_2]

4. If you're banning books to prevent minds...

If you're banning books to prevent minds from coming into contact with the ideas in the books, then you're in a mind control cult.

Book banners are a mind control cult.

[RainCaster]

5. The cucks are at it again

Every day, they come up with a new way to show their lack of a spine.

These cuckolds will all get into a line so they can take turns giving TSF his nightly rusty trombone.

[Initech]

12. This is literal Nazi shit.

Banning books because they contain words you don't like under the guise of "protecting the children" while the world's biggest pedophile - a man who has committed some absolutely unspeakable acts against children - comfortably sits in the Oval Office with no one to oppose him - is some literal Nazi shit.

[msongs]

6. bibles at the top of the list, all that adultery and fornication must be blocked nt

[AZ8theist]

8. You beat me to it. My thought exactly.

[AZJonnie]

7. Books about heterosexual marriage must be banned too then, since people get married to have sex, right?

Can't expose young minds to that sort of dangerous material!

Also, pretty sure there's plenty of "knowing" and "begatting" in the BuyBull, too!

Speaking of all that? These book banning assholes can go fuck themselves

[tishaLA]

9. I'm sure this is a pre-election hail Mary

They're going back to the anti-trans well as a way of firing up voters and they'll kill the hell of it because their election prospects are so dismal.

[Buddyzbuddy]

10. "Stop the Sexualization of Children Act" starts at home, Republicans.

[Initech]

11. Oh fucking what????

We have the world's biggest pedophile in charge of the fucking White House! And these assholes are concerned with books sexualizing children? Fire every single last republican. They are all compromised.

[Tanuki]

13. Interesting that TN's John Rose, who notoriously groomed his now-wife

when she was a high school Future Farmers Club member and he was a middle aged creep on the Future Farmers Board, is a co-sponsor.
https://prospect.org/2022/04/08/how-republican-rep-john-rose-found-his-wife/

"In March 2007, 17-year-old high school senior Chelsea Doss (now Chelsea Brooke Rose), traveled four hours from Eagleville to Gatlinburg, Tennessee, to participate in the state’s 79th annual Future Farmers of America convention.
.....
Among the convention attendees was her future husband, the then vice chairman of the board of the Tennessee FFA and current Tennessee congressman John Rose.
....
Given all of that, it is newsworthy that a powerful conservative Tennessee politician married someone less than half his age, after several connections between the two when the young woman was in high school and college, including the granting of a scholarship to her named after Rose’s parents. One scarcely needs to mention that relationships involving that kind of yawning gap in power and wealth have a problematic history."

[no_hypocrisy]

14. I hate the idea of a representative from Texas with maybe 770,214 in

population (7th District) telling my school librarian in New Jersey what my kids can and cannot read.