As Judd Legum reports, the superintendent of the Charlotte County, Florida, public school system, Mark Vianello, has ordered schools in the district to remove all books with LGBTQ characters or themes from school and classroom libraries. This ban is not directed to books considered to have sexual material — it's a ban of any book that has a character who is LGBTQ.
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@f884fa2b Because FREEEEEEEEEEEEEEDOM!
Funny how our modern "conservatives" really hate the First Amendment and Constitutional protections generally.
They treat the Constitution like they do the Bible, only being literalists for the parts they like -- and usually even then those parts are made up.
@f884fa2b no goodnight moon allowed in Charlotte county? There is a spot Huckleberry Finn cross-dresses, too ;).
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I'm pretty sure the Bible has more than a few homosexual characters in it
@f884fa2b I wouldn't go to FL if it was a free luxury vacation. No thanks!
@f884fa2b Malicious compliance. Get rid of any book that doesn't clearly, explicitly show every character as cis/hetero.
"Any one of them might have been LGBTQ. How am I to know?"
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