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From: Mike Van Pelt <usenet@mikevanpelt.com>
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Subject: Re: Books Banned in Utah.
Date: Thu, 8 Aug 2024 03:48:21 -0000 (UTC)
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In article <SlTsO.197846$MC82.8819@fx17.iad>,
Scott Lurndal <slp53@pacbell.net> wrote:
>ted@loft.tnolan.com (Ted Nolan <tednolan>) writes:
>>Once again: BS.
>>
>>Utah has decided those books are inappropriate for state funded
>>pre-college school libraries.
>
>What right does any state have to do that?

Do you want grammar school libraries to stock The Turner
Diaries, or other racist literature?  I sure don't. 

And there's the factor of "them that pays the money
makes the rules about what they'll spend it on."

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