The legislators in Florida, the legislative templates, which critics would say, would increase textbook bans again – again –

Florida already has more conversion of the school library than any other state, so Newer reports.

And now the legislators are considering that critics say another draft law that they will boost bans dramatically.

“I thought we were ready with the cultural wars,” said the democratic senator Carlos Guillermo Smith from Orlando. “I thought we were ban on all the excessive book.

This criticism came during the meeting of the Criminal Justice Committee on Tuesday on Tuesday. Smith is the deputy chair.

He did not convince his conservative colleagues.

In a party line, the Republicans agreed to take a measure SB 1692This would prevent public school officials from considering the “potential literary, artistic, political or scientific value” of a book if it is required to be “harmful to minors”.

Some supporters of Bills accuse school districts of using this standard to keep the age -independent shelves on the shelves.

“This legislation was created with a clear and only goal to protect small children here in the state of Florida from sexually explicit content,” said Aaron Dipietro from the conservative advocacy in Florida Family Voice.

This prompted the democratic chairman of the Senate Jason Pizzo from Miami-Dade County to ask if the Bible had sexually express content.

Republicans like Senator Clay Yarborough from Jacksonville said that the law was “child protection”.

But Pizzo later continued his argument in the committee meeting. He accused Book Challenge laws signed by governor Ron Desantis, children in Florida “Dumber”. He pointed to the running Involving prohibitions in the past two years.

He also quoted Detail of the SAT results.

“You get the most striking interest that you can't even spell,” said Pizzo and referred to some of these measures that drive such measures.

The definition of “harmful to minors” includes a representation of nudity or sexual behavior, which is “offensive” and “appeals mostly stimulated, shameful or pathological interest”.

The Democrats agreed to the advocates of the free expression that spoke against legislation and said that this would lead to the elimination of many books, including classics.

“Without the ability to recognize literary value, we could see that thousands of books were removed at every level,” said Stephana Ferrell from the freedom of Florida Freedom to read before the meeting towards Wusf.

The legislation must be checked by several committees before it goes to the entire Senate to take this into account. It still has to be discussed by a house committee.

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