Re: Iowa law banning books

On 3/27/2025 5:31 AM, D wrote:

  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
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Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from
carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionally
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.

I agree, providing there is a clear standard of what constitutes pornography in a given community. "We'll know it when we see it" isn't good enough.
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Dr. Auric D. Hellman
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