The newly defanged House Bill 1239 had a razor thin majority of House members concur in NOT wanting to lock up librarians as Bethany Soye had wanted in the original bill. Instead, House members agreed with the slim majority in the Senate that there should be a civil path forward for those who don’t library decisions on what books to put on the shelved.
Sanity prevailed today in the South Dakota House. By a narrow margin.
So, just a question… since those people in red technically all voted against the bill… does that mean they are pro-porn in libraries? Just asking, since we’ll see this fight played out in text messages and postcards next year.
I would suggest that every legislator that voted no, go to their school libraries and spend a day going through the material available to students. They might come away with a better understanding of the problem. They could contact Mothers’ for Liberty, who have already done surveys and have a list of the suspect books.
We don’t need you to be our censor. Freedom isn’t perfect, it is just far preferable to YOU being in control.
I can read about socialism, Marxism and Nazi writings if I want. That doesn’t mean I want to be a Nazi. Maybe you don’t trust yourself. I can understand that because I don’t really trust you either.
Like has been said many times before, even the Bible has adult themes. That hasn’t been a problem… or would you think differently?
And that name. It’s so ironic… “Mothers for Liberty”.
Who should we contact for the list of witches to be interrogated beneath big rocks?
Haha! or just be a parent.
Mom’s For Fascism discredited themselves as an organization a while back.
They must be very busy. I just looked it up and there are about 5 million novels published in English so far. Then there are millions of the other books, videos, magazines too. And hundreds of thousands of new ones every year.
That is a lot of material for them to review and authorize.
Do we arrest parents who allow their kids to watch adult themed movies or TV shows? Why not do that too, Senator (Sue) Peterson? Or are librarians just an easier target?
Do we arrest parents who allow their children to watch porn on the internet? If a librarian refuses to allow students to view pornography, she/he has nothing to fear. The law says “knowingly”.
Ah, but who decides what’s “porn”. To you, the movie Grease might be porn.
Librarians should have “nothing to fear”. It should never be their job to guarantee that a child will not access something they shouldn’t. It’s not even possible. There are too many variations in age and maturity for them to deal with.
It’s ridiculous legislation.
No more National Geographic?
When those infected by the fascist mind virus claim 1984 is porn, we lock up the librarian. How convenient.
Churchy Overgodders, beware.
Representative Sun Tzu Travis Ismay when asked for a comment on Keloland just doubled down.
“[F]or those who don’t library decisions on what books to put on the shelved.” What is this supposed to say?
This legislation would have caused librarians to be afraid and for good reason. They would either quit – or allow nothing remotely controversial to get past them. That’s called censorship. And that’s not the country I grew up in.
America and the West have been strong for many decades because we are free. We should always think twice before messing with that formula.
There is some talk out there about organizing a Library March, sort of a book club, if you will, against the Churchy Overgodders. grudznick is counseling the rabble rousers to wait until a more opportune time to really plug up the Overgodders elections next cycle. We must just weather the next of the legislatures sessions so they don’t ban posters in libraries.
I would be cautious about painting the legislators who voted ‘no’ as being all one thing, or the other. To label Representative Heinemann as ‘pro-porn’ is ludicrous. Given his druthers, I suspect Les Heinemann would prefer that porn not exist whatsoever, but in this situation I would wager that Heinemann voted against this particular legislation for the same reason he voted against the original version in the first place; let the local people govern themselves, and stop using the law to punish others when parents don’t take responsibility for their children. Just my two-bits, but I really doubt Heinemann is in favor of porn in libraries.
I would take language games over hating knowledge. Let’s be honest; you are no different than the Puritans who killed and condemned scientists who said there are other planets than earth when the church said there was only one in the 1600’s. You can try and fight reality as much as you want, but you will always lose. We see what is before us, even if you claim the devil planted it. I’ll take FREEDOM over your oppression any day.