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In Collierville, TN school officials pulled 327 books with LGBTQIA+ characters or themes off the shelves based on two bills in the state legislature (SB 1944 | HB 0800).
The only problem? Those bills never passed.
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Every one of the 327 books that were censored had been previously approved and selected based on school policy and state law. Now they’re being removed based on laws that don’t even exist.
Even if those bills passed, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that the First Amendment prohibits schools, such as Collierville, from removing materials from library shelves based on viewpoint or content. Now, as censorship flares up in our schools, it’s our obligation to safeguard our First Amendment rights.
The actions of the Collierville school officials make clear that they are not motivated by providing the best education for their students who only stand to benefit from access to a wide range of human voices and experiences.
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Once again, we see that decisions that should be driven by educational and lifelong success for students, are being driven by bigotry and homophobia instead.
This blatant censorship harms the students that school officials are supposed to be serving.
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