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From: Auric Hellman <adhellman1@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Iowa law banning books
Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2025 20:34:50 -0400
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On 3/27/2025 5:31 AM, D wrote:
> 
> 
> On Wed, 26 Mar 2025, Auric Hellman wrote:
> 
>> On 3/26/2025 8:01 PM, JAB wrote:
>>> Iowa law banning books including 1984 and Ulysses blocked by US
>>> federal judge
>>>
>>> Judge rules that law banning school libraries and classrooms from
>>> carrying books depicting sex acts had been applied unconstitutionally
>>>
>>> A lawsuit brought by publishers and authors including John Green and
>>> Jodi Picoult has led to a portion of a law banning Iowa school
>>> libraries and classrooms from carrying books depicting sex acts being
>>> halted.
>>>
>>> On Tuesday, a federal judge temporarily blocked the measure, writing
>>> that it had been applied unconstitutionally in many schools and that
>>> books of "undeniable political, artistic, literary, and/or scientific
>>> value" had been caught up in it, including Ulysses by James Joyce,
>>> Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell, Beloved by Toni Morrison and
>>> The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini.
>>>
>>> This is the second time that US district judge Stephen Locher, a Joe
>>> Biden appointee, has blocked the ban. The law, Senate File 496, was
>>> first approved by Iowa's Republican-led legislature and governor Kim
>>> Reynolds in 2023, however, Locher placed an injunction on it in
>>> December 2023 after authors and publishers sued the state.
>>>
>>> https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/mar/26/iowa-law-banning-books- 
>>> including-1984-and-ulysses-blocked-by-us-federal-judge
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> The banning of books is something every person of every political 
>> persuasion should come together to protest. It is the very essence of 
>> what makes a society truly free
> 
> This is true! On the other hand, schools should be completely free to 
> ban pornographic books on their premises.

I agree, providing there is a clear standard of what constitutes 
pornography in a given community. "We'll know it when we see it" isn't 
good enough.


-- 
Dr. Auric D. Hellman
adhellman1@gmail.com