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Texas House Bill 900 entered into effect on September 1, and on 13 December the Texas State Board of Education voted 13-1 to adopt new standards requiring schools to ban sexually explicit content and limit sexually relevant materials in school libraries.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The new guidelines require<\/a> local libraries to recognize parents as the \u201cprimary decision makers regarding their student\u2019s access to library material\u201d and bar the \u201cpossession, acquisition, and purchase of harmful material\u201d such as \u201csexually explicit\u201d content.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Booksellers are now required to rate the books they sell to school districts based on sexual content. Vendors may not sell books deemed sexually explicit to school districts, and the districts may not purchase from that don\u2019t use state-mandated ratings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

While books deemed \u201csexually explicit\u201d may not be kept in school libraries, those deemed \u201csexually relevant\u201d may, and students are allowed to borrow them with their parents\u2019 permission, i.e. written consent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the Federalist<\/a>, in August, the Texas State Library & Archives Commission cut ties with the American Library Association (ALA) over the group\u2019s aggressive far-left agenda. When the ALA elected its new president last year, she openly declared herself a \u201cMarxist lesbian\u201d<\/a> and pledged to wage war on parents trying to protect their children from woke LGBT ideology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Republican State Representative Brian Harrison wrote that \u201cThe ALA works against parents by fighting to keep pornographic materials in public libraries under the guise of opposing \u2018censorship.\u2019\u201d Representative Jared Patterson, who authored HB 900, had previously written a letter to the Texas State Board of Education, stating: \u201cThe materials I personally fought are outrageous and so explicit in nature that news programs could not even show the images on screen or read passages over the radio due to FCC standards.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But the ALA doesn\u2019t seem to mind that, and is adamant to allow children access to explicit materials which may not be read out loud at school board meetings, for instance, or aired on television.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In April, the ALA published<\/a> a list of 13 books it ranked the \u201cmost challenged\u201d books of 2022, celebrating \u201cthe brave authors whose work challenges readers with stories that disrupt the status quo.\u201d All the books on the list feature sexually explicit material, and some are nothing less than pornographic, and all are marketed to teenagers and young adults.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

State library groups from at least eight other states have also severed ties with the ALA, or are being urged to do so by state lawmakers. Still, the ALA does not even try to hide the fact that it is resolved to fight religious Americans over their parental rights. It seems that gender ideology is the hill they want to die on. Decent and freedom-loving Americans are fine with that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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