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submitted 7 months ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

The nation’s largest publisher and several bestselling authors, including novelists John Green and Jodi Picoult, are part of a lawsuit filed Thursday challenging Iowa’s new law that bans public school libraries and classrooms from having practically any book that depicts sexual activity.

The lawsuit is the second in the past week to challenge the law, which bans books with sexual content all the way through 12th grade. An exception is allowed for religious texts.

Penguin Random House and four authors joined several teachers, a student and the Iowa State Education Association — the state’s teachers union representing 50,000 current and former public school educators — in filing the federal lawsuit.

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[-] SketchySeaBeast@lemmy.ca 63 points 7 months ago

An exception is allowed for religious texts.

Well, sounds like it's time to abuse the ever living shit out of that.

[-] TWeaK@lemm.ee 37 points 7 months ago

Inb4 Satanic Temple come in.

[-] zaph@sh.itjust.works 9 points 7 months ago
[-] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 4 points 7 months ago

BRB founding a religion where the sacred text is an April 1978 issue of Hustler

[-] Mango@lemmy.world 2 points 7 months ago

Right? Take their exceptionalism and put it in our hats!

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 1 points 7 months ago

There’s a story written by Enheduanna that’s got wonderful room to be used here

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