‘They’re going to be holding many teachers accountable,’ he said signing a bill restricting nonparents to 1 book challenge per month
Efforts to ban or challenge library books across the nation has had a sharp focus on titles addressing LGBTQ+ themes
There were 3,000 plus book bans in schools last year, 1,000 more than the year before. That rise is inspired, in part, by Moms for Liberty
The bill sponsor says he is protecting children from being groomed by child sex predators, although no evidence was presented
Lehigh County Moms for Liberty chapter members had begun drifting away after the chapter’s preferred candidate lost badly
"I suggest this candidate leave queer kids alone and focuses instead on the real issues that will make lives of people in Missouri better”
Plaintiffs: Law required book vendors to rate the explicitness of sexual references in books sold to schools- was unconstitutionally broad
Rep Julianne Young stated it did not ban gay characters, just "acts of homosexuality," which are undefined
Sexually explicit content defined as describing, depicting, showing or writing about sex or sex acts in a detailed or graphic manner
Moms for Liberty, a powerful anti-LGBTQ organization deemed an extremist group by the SPLC is behind many of the efforts to ban books
