Indiana lawmakers debate bill allowing parents to challenge ‘obscene and harmful’ library materials

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2 thoughts on “Indiana lawmakers debate bill allowing parents to challenge ‘obscene and harmful’ library materials

  1. Out State legislature wants to ban Library books ?! You have to have your Identification to get a Library card to check out books from a Library . The Librarian can screen for age appropriate books . Compare that to Indiana’s no permit required to get a War ready fire arm without any proof of any knowledge of how dangerous it is to have it ! There is no limit to the STUPIDITY that emanates from our stupid majority Statehouse. Don’t they know we also have book stores and Amazon where any book ever published can be purchased by anyone.

  2. Just add an ’18 or older’ room that you have to show ID to enter to each library and move on. We have 18 year olds buying guns legally and they aren’t even smart enough to graduate high school. Our legislators need to come down from their ivory towers and live what the rest of us are dealing with. Hopefully they will go back with different priorities. Well . . . . probably not. *sigh*

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