Arkansas Judge declares Act 372 unconstitutional, striking down key provisions of the "harmful to minors" law.Act 372 targeted librarians and booksellers, threatening jail for shelving "inappropriate" books.Critics argued the act targeted LGBTQ+ content; Gender Queer became central in the debate.ACLU hails the ruling as a victory for free speech; AG Tim Griffin plans to appeal the decision.A federal judge in Arkansas has struck down two provisions of Arkansas' "harmful to minors" law, known as Act 372, and signed by Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders on the 30th of March, 2023, as unconstitutional. Writing in a 23rd of December summary judgment, Judge Timothy Brooks wrote that if the Arkansas legislature's goal was "to protect younger minors from accessing inappropriate sexual content in libraries and bookstores," and that it would "only achieve that end at the expense of everyone else's First Amendment rights… The law deputizes librarians and booksellers as the agents of censorship; when motivated by the fear of jail time, it is likely they will shelve only books fit for young children and segregate or discard the rest."Section one would have imposed a misdemeanour penalty of up to one year in jail for librarians and booksellers who have books deemed inappropriate on the shelves. Section five would have mandated "a new procedure for libraries, city councils, and county quorum courts to follow when evaluating a citizen's request to move or remove a book from a public library's permanent collection".https://bleedingcool.com/comics/arkansas-judge-strikes-down-act-372-keeps-gender-queer-on-shelves/
Proponents of Act 372 claimed that the law was needed to keep pornographic material away from children. However, critics of the law stated that it was a disguised attempt to remove constitutionally protected books about or by LGBT people. Amongst the opponents was the Comic Book Legal Defense Fund, especially as the graphic novel Gender Queer by Maia Kobabe has become a totemic graphic novel in this fight. Entire political campaigns were organised, promising that the book would be banned from schools, libraries and even bookstores.In his original 2023 decision to preliminarily block two key provisions of the law, Brooks prefaced his opinion with a quote from Fahrenheit 451's Ray Bradbury, saying, "There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches" before writing "For more than a century, librarians have curated the collections of public libraries to serve diverse viewpoints, helped high school students with their term papers, made recommendations to book clubs, tracked down obscure books for those devoted to obscure pastimes, and mesmerized roomfuls of children with animated storytelling. So, the passage of Act 372 prompts a few simple yet unanswered questions. For example: What has happened in Arkansas to cause its communities to lose faith and confidence in their local librarians? What is it that prompted the General Assembly's newfound suspicion? And why has the State found it necessary to target librarians for criminal prosecution?""This was an attempt to 'thought police,' and this victory over totalitarianism is a testament to the courage of librarians, booksellers, and readers who refused to bow to intimidation," said Holly Dickson, executive director of the ACLU of Arkansas. Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin told the Associated Press, "I respect the court's ruling and will appeal".
Baséd. Bible thumpers belong in Africa, not the free world.
>>1372101>Critics argued the act targeted LGBTQ+ content; Gender Queer became central in the debate.Gender Queer is literally child pornography. It has depictions of minors having sex with each other.
>>1372109I bet you studied that book real good.
>>1372109It's a memoire retard. The author was recalling sexual thoughts they had when they were 14, which, shockingly, does in fact happen to kids growing up.It's important to teach about these things and show they're natural thoughts to have than try to censor it and turn people into repressed incels.
>>1372111>It's a memoire retardWith colored pictures depicting oral sex between kids?>It's important to teach about these thingsOh no, I totally agree.The faster you radicalize parents into realizing that LGBTQs are pedophiles, the quicker we can get this issue solved.
>>1372113>Looks inside book about learning about the author learning about their own sexuality>Depictions of the author learning about their own sexuality
>>1372113>The faster you radicalize parents into realizing that LGBTQs are pedophiles, Well we've been waiting for them to actually get upset about all the priests and pastors who rape kids too but church remains popular. I think you have an uphill battle there, but virtue signal till you're blue in the face if it makes you feel better.
>>1372122Never forget the US catholic church spent 300 million on paying off clergy sex abuse cases. At least one branch literally went bankrupt because they had so many abuse cases to pay off.
>>1372122>whattabout the catholic churchRemember when monkeypox was a thing and then it turned out it was mostly present in gay people leading people to realize it was pretty much a sexually transmitted disease getting spread at gay orgies which are way more common than people ever knew and then dogs and children in close proximity to gay people started to get monkeypox somehow, nobody knows how they got it, and then monkeypox suddenly left the news as quickly as it arrived? Crazy, huh?
>>1372127So you're say we shouldn't care about priests raping kids because Christians are their own clique so at least it's nicely contained. That's cool.
>>1372122Considering church attendance has cratered it's obvious they did get upset. The church is generally only popular with the Democrat-faithful Latinx illegals you guys love so much. Papists in general have always been eyed with suspicion by American society; social justice types of the past considered this to be unwarranted discrimination and bigotry etc. You'll eventually come to your senses regarding the LGBTQ lunatics too but not until after a lot of avoidable damage has been done by them. Then you'll pretend like you never really defended them either. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Catholicism_in_the_United_States
>>1372111>>1372107>>1372101we don't need a book depicting actual child porn and oral sex between trannies in picture form in school libraries for 7 year olds to read
>>1372130Are you trying to imply that JD Vance and a lot of core people Trump is surrounding himself with aren't hardcore evangelical Christians? It's nice that you assume I would support latino Christians because they're "democrats" kinda like how you assume I would support that corrupt government institution at all just because I am against priests and pastors being protected from punishment for pedophilia. Personally I don't give a fuck if the dude raping some kid has a pride flag on his wall or a crucifix, I just think he should be thrown off a cliff. But at least if a dude with a pride flag gets caught he goes to jail. Priests just get their bounty paid and shipped off to fresh boy pastures.
>>1372133Armchair progressives disagree
>>1372129Whattaboutism isn't a refutation retard. You're still unironically defending child pornography in public libraries.
>the Arkansas legislature's goal was "to protect younger minors from accessing inappropriate sexual content in libraries and bookstores," and that it would "only achieve that end at the expense of everyone else's First Amendment rights…Based. doesn't matter if a thousand incels disagree. this judge will always be right.
>>1372135JD Vance is a very outspoken Catholic, you retard. You have no idea what you're even talking about and likely don't even know the difference, which counters your point that the church is somehow popular. It's supposed to be this monolithic entity in American society yet you know nothing about it.
>>1372145Sorry if I don't care enough about the distinction between evangelicals who rape kids and catholics who rape kids. I even worked in a United church for over 14 years and it all blends together into mush. Christian churches of all types systematically down play child rape and protect those caught because it shows their whole organization is a corrupt house of cards. I am all for some random non-religious pedophile to be dealt with brutally. I just call for the same treatment of all pedophiles and the destruction of any institution that protects them.
>>1372146Take it up with PoCs, they're the main religious bloc in America and the world in general. Whites are either dropping religion entirely or going back to paganism.
>>1372146Weird how Jewish religions keep having this stuff happen in them huh
>>1372109>Gender Queer is literally child pornographyWe must ban all pornography. On day one, Trump must sign an executive order to ban this cancer. If he can't because of "constitutional issues", then go about it indirectly, like Florida or Texas where they require porn sites to archive PII info from consoomers and then make them liable for any hack/leak of that info. This would mean that as soon as some based anon from /pol/ gets into the servers, those sites would be sued into oblivion. They'd become too expensive to operate! Despite what the left says, there's no way banning porn bad. Increased dopamine, changes in brain structure, cognitive impairment are all found to be true with consumption of any amount of porn or sex. The increase in ADHD and autism can be directly tied back to increase in pornography and vaccines. We can see that banning porn would actually be very fruitful for our social health. The literal only negative thing about banning porn is that a bunch of porn stars will lose a job...but I am totally fine with having a bunch of degenerates go jobless if it means that young men are spared from the dangers of porn. Encourage young men to join a church organization or the military and stop fapping to anime shit and wasting away on video games. The military, especially as warfare is a great way to build character and discipline, and we'll need more bodies for the defense and expansion of our borders.
>>1372149Are you legit telling me to ignore the crimes of white Christians because most Christians are brown so why not just focus on them? That's one of the most comically on the nose Christian things I've ever heard. >>1372150Yeah, zany huh! It's almost like there's something bigger going on...
>>1372153>Are you legit telling me to ignore the crimes of white Christians because most Christians are brown so why not just focus on them?No, but you've repeatedly established yourself as a certified retard so it's unsurprising that you arrived at this conclusion. Christianity is a PoC belief system, go to them and tell them to fix it.
>>1372151faggot
>>1372154>Christianity is a PoC belief systemTop keks. So is J D Vance an official Latino now?
>>1372164He's an honorary pajeet.
>>1372164>created by PoC>followed mostly by PoC>is only growing in PoC nationsHow is it not a PoC religion? It's like saying hip hop isn't a black music genre because it has white fans.
>>1372166kys yourself retard.
>>1372169>no argumentJust a leftoid having a melty because he now realises he has to hold PoC accountable for something they created and are propagating.
>>1372170crab, stay in your bucket.
>>1372155coomer
>>1372133Motherfucker do you actually think seven year olds are reading memoirs
>>1372155Says the person with mental illness. Anyone with a brain can realize that porn is bad for you and bad for society.
>>1372185its a comic book. and dems want 7 year olds reading it or it wouldn't be in school libraries
>>1372188Look at society before porn and after porn. You're seriously telling me things have gotten worse?
>>1372190Absolutely. Porn was outlawed until the 60s. The porn industry was created in the 70s. Now, thanks to the internet, porn is everywhere. Most Americans agree that we want a decent, moral, and Christian society. This is why Trump won by the largest popular and electoral vote margin in a hundred years.
>>1372193Dude back before the 60s society was full of blatant open racism, sexism, discrimination and segregation. How do you think that was better? You sound like a boomer caveman.
>>1372195>How do you think that was better? America becomes worse the more minorities we have. Race, sexuality, doesn't matter.This isn't a joke. Blacks make up half the violent crimes in America. Literally all pedophiles are queers. The ones responsible for grooming gangs and ramming vans into crowds are literally all sand people. Pornography industry? Chiefly owned by jews.We need to go back as soon as humanly possible.
>>1372190>before porn and after pornThere's always been porn you fucking retard.
>>1372236If you want to get away from degeneracy just stop visiting 4chan
>>1372236>America becomes worse the more minorities we have.Globally americans are a minority. The only place this is untrue is in your back garden. Race and secksuality don't matter the problems you list are all 'people' not 'foriegners'.>This isn't a joke. Blacks make up half the violent crimes in America.Potentially. I've not looked at the stats tbh, but even if this holds true then it's almost certainly environmental conditioning. When the first blacks ceased to be slaves and setup their own areas these were notoriously absent of crime - not caused by victimisation of them - and whilst not wealthy, not unkempt. You might want to look into how/why that changed.>Literally all pedophiles are queers.Or in the .gov. Or in positions of industry. > The ones responsible for grooming gangs and ramming vans into crowds are literally all sand peopleSand people like epstein? They frighten easily but will return in larger numbers.>Pornography industry? Chiefly owned by jews.Jew is a religion, not a race. You could become one tomorrow if you wanted. The current procession of hooknoses isn't the same folk that spent 40 years wombling in circles in the deserts. All talk of a 'jewish people' is as much nonsense as 'christian people'. The imaginary skyperson I converse with doesn't impact my heritige.
>>1372244The conversation was about its presence in society. Porn was banned for quite some time, people had to go underground to see it and could even be removed from society if found with it. Now close your mouthpussy you insufferable little dweeb. I can tell you're this annoying in real life too. Work on that.
>>1372266>Porn was banned for quite some time, people had to go underground to see it and could even be removed from society if found with it.lmao no it fucking wasn't. You have any fuckin clue how publicly kinky people were back then? If anything being against porn is a relatively recent phenomenon.
>>1372133More republicans lies
>>1372193>Porn was outlawed in the 60sGonna need a source on that buddy. Because it sounds like you're making up bullshit for your narrative.
>>1372111The problem isn't the book content, it could have furry scat drawings for all I care. The problem is it being directed to kids. It should be put as an adult book for adults, in the restricted section.
>>1372428>The problem is it being directed to kids. Yeah they know.Homosexuals are pedophilic. Look at the wikipedia page for the stonewall riots. Look at who is shown in those pictures.
>>1372101Just skimmed this book, there's no pornography.
>>1372101even if the book could be considered 'inappropriate' trying to pass a law to send booksellers to jail for exercising their first amendment rights is a really curious play
>>1372113you never had constructive and no-judgment sex-ed in school and it fucking SHOWS, mate
>>1372111>and turn people into repressed incelsfunny, we didn't seem to have many incels in the 50s. Were children's books in the 50s full of sexual talk? Is that our problem, modern society has become too pure and desexualized compared to the 50s?
>>1372127also remember how they said that we had to shut down society, cause trillions of dollars in economic damage, cause food shortages, and cause permanent mental damage to children to fight COVID?but then right after that they said it was wrong to tell gay men to stop having orgies to fight monkeypox?
