The First Amendment doesn’t just protect what you say. It also protects your right to hear what others say. It guarantees a right to published information. It protects a whole lot of stuff ce…

A lawsuit, filed by patrons of a county library in Arkansas, has been allowed to move forward by a federal court. The First Amendment lawsuit plausibly alleges the library’s decision to move anything determined to be “LGBTQ” from the children’s section to the adult’s section violates the First Amendment right to equitable access to information. (via Courthouse News Service)

Here’s how this started, according to the decision [PDF] that moves this lawsuit forward:

[I]n late 2022 or early 2023 the Crawford County Library System implemented a policy under which its library branches must remove from their children’s sections all books containing LGBTQ themes, affix a prominent color label to those books, and place them in a newly-created section called the “social section.” Plaintiffs allege this policy was imposed on the Library System by the Crawford County Quorum Court in response to political pressure from constituents who objected, at least partly on religious grounds, to the presence of these books in the children’s section.

  • Puzzle_Sluts_4Ever@lemmy.world
    132·
    1 year ago

    Is “advanced sexual theory” the latest version of “critical race theory” where you take a college course that someone told you existed and assume it applies to anything that makes you uncomfortable?

    There is nothing “advanced” about the existence of gay people or the idea that you don’t need to grow up and settle down with someone of “the opposite sex”. Hell, having your parents lose their mind and pretend the world is ending the moment you see that Sally has two Moms or even that someone is walking down the street with their friend but “are a bit too close together” is how you get such incredibly stupid people as to feel threatened by a kids book that isn’t constantly drilling down that PENIS GOES INTO VAGINA!!!

    And if the mere existence of an alternative will “turn someone gay”? Then… how has the world not devolved into mass gay orgies everywhere that Ryan Reynolds goes? Well… more massive gay orgies.

    Also: Can I just point out how massively fucked it is that so many chuds are this obsessed with the sexuality of their children?

    • PenguinJuice@kbin.social
      315·
      1 year ago

      You’re welcome to share anything you want with your children. I think it’s presumptuous for you to make that decision for other parents.