How are Book Bans Constitutional?
I know Florida, Texas, and other counties have tried and succeeded to ban books, I wonder how that is even legal since we have the first amendment. I tried doing research on this since Huntington Beach is banning books and people were petitioning against that at the main library.
I made a little post asking people to petition on the Orange County sub.
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They’re not banning you from selling, buying, owning, or reading the book, so it’s not an obvious first amendment issue.
They’re creating policies for which books various government institutions can use tax money to buy and make available.
They just happen to be targeting books that recognize the existence of minorities, which is shitty.
what's far scarier is the revisionist history being pushed in many states and school districts.
Really just pulled from public schools and libraries.
They are banning you from owning those books.
Pride event canceled because they were going to give away banned books
This is a school district not renting space at the school to a non-profit that intends to distribute the books. That’s a problem. The same thing happened to the after school Satan club. But framing it as “banning you from owning those books” doesn’t seem honest.
It’s plenty bad when publicly owned rental space is denied to some renters based on viewpoint discrimination. I hope they win their lawsuit. There’s no need to equate it with police raiding houses to confiscate books and arresting bookstore owners.
Yeah, this looks like a procedural issue.
I'd guess that the district was looking for a reason and found this violation of their procedures to deny the space as an excuse. There's a chance that the lawsuit exposes some messeges or emails that reveal the true intention.