Re: Iowa law banning books

On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Auric Hellman wrote:

On 3/26/2025 8:01 PM, JAB wrote:

Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US
federal judge
 Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from
carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionally
 A lawsuit brought by publishers and authors including John Green and
Jodi Picoult has led to a portion of a law banning Iowa school
libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts being
halted.
 On Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the measure, writing
that it had been applied unconstitutionally in many schools and that
books of "undeniable political, artistic, literary, and/or scientific
value" had been caught up in it, including Ulysses by James Joyce,
Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Beloved by Toni Morrison and
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
 This is the second time that US district judge Stephen Locher, a Joe
Biden appointee, has blocked the ban. The law, Senate File 496, was
first approved by Iowa's Republican-led legislature and governor Kim
Reynolds in 2023, however, Locher placed an injunction on it in
December 2023 after authors and publishers sued the state.
 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/26/iowa-law-banning-books-including-1984-and-ulysses-blocked-by-us-federal-judge
 

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The banning of books is something every person of every political persuasion should come together to protest. It is the very essence of what makes a society truly free

This is true! On the other hand, schools should be completely free to ban pornographic books on their premises.