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md22mdrx
Brazenly unconstitutional, but ya know … republicans.
JamesAHarrod
I’ll show them my class D felony - in my pants
Equreuil
My library was letting me check out smutty romance novels when I was like 11 without blinking. Sad that kids these days won't be able to
TheIceHorse
Talk about sprinting backwards in society
RetrogradeLlama
And we're back to the 1960's, where the courts had to determine "obscene".
Bojovnik84
Throw any Bible on the ground outside first. Get lawn chair and popcorn second.
jgjgjgjgjgjgjg
Repubs more afraid of books than of guns.
twoamartist
Wow.
munchman495
'But we will make it required reading for Bibles and Mein Kampf!'...
geoff741
Imagine big signs: "By order of the govt the bible is not allowed inside of this public library because it depicts rape, murder, incest etc"
McFrostenwulf
Getting real tired of this shit.
jpatterson45
That is some pretty broad language. I hope the libraries don’t have any Henry Miller or William S. Burroughs.
jherazob
That's the point
Hount
Is this new season of Handmaid's Tale?
ProfessorLuxingtonofAtlantiusUinversity
you guys, they're taking over. please vote them out.
graehall
As someone who was raised christian and in the church I can say with conviction the best part about christianity is when you leave it
Degarafarat
Let's not read the bible
ThisIsTheShortestUsernameICouldFind
graehall
Wild that she's a scientologist
MrSpooki
Actually that tracks with her performance on that show…
RoloTonyBrown
Don’t think your kid should read a certain book? Then be an actual parent and stop them. Don’t force a library to do your job for you.
chaos021
Lol. This goes down in flames of stupid once challenged.
DrKriegersClone
I think you're forgetting who's been appointing the judges in front of whom it would be challenged. They haven't been packing the courts 1/
DrKriegersClone
2/ with politicized krazy konservative kristians for no funsies - they've been doing it to enable this sort of law to survive challenges.
MisterMarblesFoibles
The fast decline of America into a fascist dictatorship. Very disturbing.
16KTS
Obscene Material so we can’t have the Bible in the library.
LondoMollari58
So does this mean that any books relating to medicine that depict human genitalia just became obscene, pornographic material?
Cappinskullz
No. The definition in their code of law specifically excludes scientific and artistic, among other, materials from this restriction
Gorgrim
I don't see that any different from the statue of David, so sure.
Saxytimes
I hope she publishes a list of all the books we shouldn't be reading
hnngh
Bibles got some fucked up stories, we holding churches liable?
SonrisaFlores
Since they house these books in large quantities, I would call that a library for sure
WhyWeDoThis
Ohh dear Logic! GOP and Logic has parted ways after Regan, and since then never met.
Drix1942
lol, never.
Ruik
We don't even hold churches liable for children being raped or paying taxes. So, I doubt it.
eromitlab
Of course not! Not in Gov. Smoky Eye's Arkansas!
wanderingian
Somebody's sueing for it in UT
MeatPopsicleMultiPass
Now they should in AR.
nurmich
Right after they start paying taxes. So... never?
sadurdaynight
Nope. That's why they have a list. Can be over-reaching with the law, but exact with the list to only criminalize stuff you don't like.
SkeletorOverlordofEvil
Then start with the Bible and watch the frantic backpedaling.
GeneralWho
I mean...it details incest, rape, incestual rape, murder, infanticide, and giving a sack of foreskins to your father in law. Very obscene.
DanOrtega
it also depicts a megalomaniac god that cant take criticism and will resort to murder the second someone deviates from his orders.
GeneralWho
Yes but unfortunately they like that because it's *their* megalomaniac god who will fix everything through their unwavering servitude.
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
Maybe if some of these fucking idiots would read some books we wouldn't be here.
Fairemont
Would? Could!
qroniq14
Reading is hard.
prolorus
Indiana Jones: “You people need to begin READING books instead of BURNING them!”
badatediting
That. Is. why. They. Keep. Banning. The. Books.
Lazerstorm
This is going according to their plan.
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
Oh definitely. Theyll turn america into idiocracy just to keep power. Fucking traitors
badatediting
That IS the plan.
RetrogradeLlama
Red States are at the bottom of the barrel for literacy rates.
Kenbamazingbutprobablywontbe
And highest for government handouts
RetrogradeLlama
That can't be true - they're against government spending! /S
SuperPickle17
no no, there ok if the spending if for corporations
TinyOctopus
Oh. no. you. dint. just. start. fucking. with. the. librarians.
brobinson2001
Start? https://www.ky3.com/2023/03/29/missouri-house-votes-strip-state-funding-public-libraries/
MasterMookie
I think conservatives learned the wrong lesson from Alexandria.
Warune
My bro works for the Nashville library, he had to spend his birthday telling trans patrons why they were pulling lgbtq books off the 1/2
Warune
2/2 reading lists. He had to see many tears and sadness on his birthday of all days. Drank his sorrows at a bar that night. Fuck the GoP
captaincyoomin
I'm a librarian and I'm getting ready for the bs to come my way
DanOrtega
Dude, at this point, I thought it was part of your job training.
DukeDarkwood
OverwhelmingSurplusOfDiggity
Start? Man, republicans have been funding with librarians for a long time. This is just more of the same.
TaviRus
Man, off all the autocorrects, that might be the most subtle way to alter a sentence
DanOrtega
autocorrect is secretly fascist
Exdeath5000
And who determines what is obscene? We learned this week that David of Michelangelo is pornographic to Christians
mantabloke
Larry flint needs to come back from the desd
Awmph
tbf, only an incredibly small percentage Christians think David is pornographic
Warthog2
*certain sects of some Christians
mmontour
Whatever gives the judge a boner.
ROGUEdenied
anything giving "prurient thoughts"
thatiscomedygoldrightthere
Thanks for asking. The loudest, most pious evangelicals will get to make that determination.
engineeringwombocombo
Pious implies they follow the teachings of their religion. The term you're looking for is "batshit fucking insane".
AngurProne
Gonna have to ban the Bible. (They'll just ban all of Ezekiel)
WilwoWaggins
No you did not. It is not. It was a matter of parental approval for seeing genitals.
Froggie243
Fuck parental approval. What shit take on education.
mylastaccountwashackedin2014
No genitals are made of stone
aroc
Yeah, no, just for the us's version of ISIS, the evangelicals. Those are not christians, they can't be bothered by the teachings of christ..
Mrw1cked
One mans obscenity is another man's lyric.... Or something like that
HandoB4Javert
The statue commissioned by the leader of the pre-protestant Christian church of the day?
DarkBusterBaron
https://youtu.be/kPeb493B6d8
SomeDetroitGuy
David is pornographic but a book that describes incest, rape, and beastiality is totally fine.
StarscreamAndHutch
ROGUEdenied
Where can one get such a book? asking for a friend? Oh wait ANY FUCKING MOTEL!
TyrannusEquus
He's in that book too!
sniggly5212
ArcadiaBerger
Speaking as a Christian...WHAT THE FUCK????
Rodenbeard
You got it! The Christian Fascists determine it. Fuck everyone else's rights.
thereitis101
There’s a famous Supreme Court case where Potter Stewart said “I know it when I see it.”
AngryBagOfBones2
Christofascists won't stop until they have their own sharia law.
Tumescentpie
That's the neat part of fascism. The rules are always open to interpretation. That way you can always punish an "other".
LondoMollari58
The Christians determine what's obscene, silly. They always have.
Frostycopper
Obscene has a specific definition in my state, maybe they have one too.
Frostycopper
Nvm it's vague and dumb https://law.justia.com/codes/arkansas/2018/title-5/subtitle-6/chapter-68/subchapter-2/section-5-68-203/
diesel01
Of course, the more vague the harder for librarians to determine if they’ve transgressed
Redyls
wait until Christians find out whats painted on the walls of their churches
Luthierfer
I literally saw cocks (lots of them) in the Sistine Chapel.
badatediting
fandsor
Omg, what are you doing?! Adam needs a fig leaf!
badatediting
Corrodias
The USA has an unfortunate - though rarely-invoked - exception to the first amendment of "obscene" materials being illegal to possess.
Idonotkillpeoplethatismyleastfavoritethingtodo
Like the Bible? The the incest and pedophilia I'm thinkin it's pretty obscene. Oh obscene only means "things GOP don't like" my bad.
Onlyhereforthelaughs
Trump's face is obscene.
Corrodias
What's obscene is "whatever the judge or jury decides". It's an "I know it when I see it" standard, and it absolutely shouldn't exist.
Corrodias
It's a catch-all that lets the feds persecute anyone guilty of possessing anything unpopular to whatever shitty jury they can whip up.
HedonistBeard
Add it to the list of loopholes that need to be closed.
vonHoopla
They will only be closed by civil violence at this point. If the law would've done, it would've been after Ben Franklin nearly got arrested.
HedonistBeard
Well, I am certainly not advocating for that, because that would be against the imgur ToS. So nobody suggest that might be a good idea.
Strategicgnomer
No no, just French it up a bit there. Be more like the French is all I'm saying.