CLEAN LIBRARIES ACT! - CALL to ACTION: Call Senator Hufstetler NOW for a "YES" vote on SB394!
Bill restricts obscene and pornographic books from school libraries - votes pending.
The Georgia Senate is scheduled to vote on a bill that will help remove obviously obscene, sexual and pornographic material from schools. The bill, SB 394 is called the Clean Libraries Act (an earlier version was called the READER act). It is scheduled for a Senate Vote by the end of next week. It also needs to be passed by the powerful “Rules” committee to be considered. Last week, it passed “6-1” in the Senate Education and Youth Committee.
Senator Chuck Hufstetler needs to hear from you now at (404) 656-0034. His “YES” vote is important since a wide “favorable” vote margin will help Representatives in the House vote yes as well. Now, some senators like to be “excused” from the vote or abstain. Senator Hufstetler needs to stand with parents and children and vote yes. HE is also on the powerful “RULES COMMITTEE” that will decide if this bill gets to the floor. So will need to vote “yes” in committee and “yes” on floor next week.
Call Bartow Senator Hufstetler today at (404) 656-0034. Respectfully advise the following (If you live in Bartow County):
Please vote YES on SB 394 (The Clean Libraries Act).
Please work to get SB394 on the Rules Committee Agenda and vote YES in Rules.
You want kids in schools to be protected from obscene and sexually explicit books.
(you can also email him from his contact form if you prefer, but a call is more powerful).
Call Bartow Senator Ed Setzler (404) 656-0256 THANK HIM FOR SPONSORING THIS BILL AND Voting “yes” in Committee to move it to the floor!
Current law in Georgia prevents anyone - EXCEPT SCHOOL LIBRARIES - from giving pornographic or sexually explicit material to minors. The Libraries have been long protected and now would have to live under the same laws as all other Georgia citizens and business. Here is one of the set of materials that would be restricted from libraries as “harmful to minors: (5) "Sexual conduct" means actual or simulated acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if such person is female, breasts. (see more at bottom1).
SB 394 would make sure that students in schools are protected from obscene material as well.
How could anyone object to that? How? SB 394 is linked here. Click the “current version” box at the top of this page to read the bill.
Over 50 Sexually Explicit, Obscene or Inappropriate Books Found in Bartow County Schools - SO FAR!
As we have been covering, there are, at a minimum, dozens of such books on the shelves and Bartow County and the school system has consciously chosen to KEEP THEM ON THE SHELVES despite being informed of their sexual content. More details on such books will be forth coming. But for now a list of 50 or so such titled is below. Each can be compared to the “RatedBooks.org” link that shows the explicit content.
In Bartow County at least 50 titles were identified as carrying a rating of at least 4/5 on the RatedBooks.org website. Some initially found books (with and asterisk*) were determined by School system to have not been present in having been lost or previously removed. But they were initially purchased for school libraries. Many others are still being reviewed. Some have been removed, but most are still on the shelf.
A Clash of Kings
A Court of frost and Starlight
A Court of Mist and Fury - Sarah J. Maas
A Court of Silver Flames - Sarah J Maas
A Court of Thorns and Roses - Sarah J Maas
A Court of Wings and Ruin - Sarah J Maas
A Game of Thrones
(A Game of Thrones Novel): A Class of Kings
GAME OF thrones Novels (other)
Blankets*
Boy Toy*
Breathless
Breathless - different book
Check Please: Hockey!
Check Please: Hockey!
Collateral
Collected Poems 1947-1980 (Ginsburg)
Damned
Damsel
Empire of Storms
Homegoing
I wish you all the Best
Identical
INFANDOUS Elana K. Arnold -
Kingdom of Ash
Last Night at the Telegraph Club
Life is Funny
Like a Love Story
Living Dead Girl
Love Lies Beneath
Lucky
Man O War
Milk and Honey - Rupi Kaur
Nineteen Minutes -
One Last Stop
Perfect*
Red Hood
Red, White and Royal Blue
Slaughterhouse Five*
Slaughterhouse Five, Graphic novel
The Bluest Eye -
The Carnival at Bray*
The DUFF Designated Fat
Friend
The Freedom Writer's Diary The Gift
The Handmaid's Tale
The Handmaid's Tale: A Graphic Novel - Margaret Atwood
The Haters - Jesse Andrews
The Infinite Moment of Us - Lauren Myracle
The Kite Runner -
The Kite Runner - GRAPHIC NOVEL
The Lovely Bones
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
The Sun and Her Flowers
This is Kind of an Epic Love Story
Tilt*
Water for Elephants
WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF
Please call Call Bartow Senator Hufstetler today at (404) 656-0034 for a yes vote on SB394 in Rules committee and in Senate.
“As used in this part, the term:
(1) "Harmful to minors" means that quality of description or representation, in whatever form, of nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse, when it:
(A) Taken as a whole, predominantly appeals to the prurient, shameful, or morbid interest of minors;
(B) Is patently offensive to prevailing standards in the adult community as a whole with respect to what is suitable material for minors; and
(C) Is, when taken as a whole, lacking in serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value for minors.
(2) "Knowingly" means having a general knowledge of, or reason to know, or a belief or ground for belief which warrants further inspection or inquiry of both:
(A) The character and content of any material described in this part which is reasonably susceptible to examination by the defendant; and
(B) The age of the minor; provided, however, that an honest mistake shall constitute an excuse from liability in this part if the defendant made a reasonable, bona fide attempt to ascertain the true age of such minor.
(3) "Minor" means a person less than 18 years of age.
(4) "Sadomasochistic abuse" means actual or simulated flagellation or torture by or upon a person who is nude, clad in undergarments, a mask or bizarre costume, or the condition of being fettered, bound, or otherwise physically restrained by one so clothed or nude.
(5) "Sexual conduct" means actual or simulated acts of masturbation, homosexuality, sexual intercourse, or physical contact in an act of apparent sexual stimulation or gratification with a person's clothed or unclothed genitals, pubic area, buttocks, or, if such person is female, breasts.
(6) "Sexual excitement" means the condition of human male or female genitals when in a state of sexual stimulation or arousal.
(7) "Sexually explicit nudity" means a state of undress so as to expose the human male or female genitals, pubic area, or buttocks with less than a full opaque covering, or the showing of the female breast with less than a fully opaque covering of any portion thereof below the top of the nipple, or the depiction of covered or uncovered male genitals in a discernibly turgid state.
Why the issue everyone that has a phone can see what ever the want and read about whatever they want so why waste the moneys!
I will call all to oppose. This is an affront to liberty in the name of authoritarian, hyper-religous, anti-intelectual populism of its most egregious sort.
This issue is a hill this moderate is willing to die on.
Sic Semper Tyrannis