North Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation to ban books that contain “sexually explicit” content from public libraries.
North Dakota lawmakers have introduced legislation to ban books that contain “sexually explicit” content from public libraries, including a provision that could jail librarians if they don’t comply.
While Republican legislators around the country have introduced similar bills over the past year, most apply only to school libraries., however, would ban all public libraries from stocking “sexually explicit” materials in the name of protecting children, meaning that readers of all ages would be banned from accessing LGBTQ+-inclusive texts, which are largely what these bans restrict.
Introduced Tuesday by North Dakota House Representatives Mike Lefor and Vicky Steiner, the bill would redefine “explicit sexual material” to include “deviant sexual intercourse,” “sadomasochistic abuse,” “sexual perversion,” “sexual identity,” and/or “gender identity.” Neither “deviant” nor “perversion” are defined in the bill, a likely intentionally vague wording that could apply to just about anything.
“This is not a way to raise our kids, and we have to do everything we can to make sure that this doesn't get into the hands of children, especially without their parents' knowledge,” Lefor told theHowever, Allan Blume, the vice president of North Dakota’s Valley City Barnes County Public Library Board of Directors, defended the book’s educational value.
bill would strip doctors who provide such care of their licensing, and would allow patients who have been “harmed” by such care to take retroactive civil action against doctors up to the age of 25.
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