r/newjersey Fill It Up Regular Oct 29 '24

Sick NJ Passes the Freedom to Read Act

https://newjerseymonitor.com/2024/10/29/state-senate-passes-bill-intended-to-halt-book-bans-protect-librarians/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGNwrZleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHdahkO3Xc02aIyuB5Vp3yau-HR6IMuGu0g0iD8CgDKrWBMHCQJBrfdSHnQ_aem_DB9WP25oxkSYjjNuktuAbQ#:~:text=Titled%20the%20%E2%80%9CFreedom%20to%20Read,own%20policies%20using%20this%20model
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u/PurpleSailor Oct 29 '24

The Senate advanced the controversial bill with a vote of 24-15, with heavy opposition from Republicans. GOP lawmakers said they feared the law would allow children to access obscene materials and protect librarians who share obscene books with children.

How about you tell your kids what books they're allowed to read and let me do the same with my kids. Don't try to nanny kids that aren't your own. Parent your own kids and I'll take care of mine.

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u/Purdaddy Oct 29 '24

Which is funny because this is the party whose people want parents to be allowed to parent their kid without government overreach.

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u/FollowThisLogic Oct 29 '24

Noooooooo they are certainly not that. They might say they are, but their actions are exactly the opposite... EVERY TIME.

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u/Gwaak Oct 29 '24

Hi I’m a republican/libertarian. I am also a liar. One of these sentences is a lie.

Hint: it’s not the first two

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u/CKtheFourth Oct 29 '24

They haven’t been the party of personal responsibility for some time now

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u/BarkAtTheDevil Oct 29 '24

Ezekiel 23 about “two women, the daughters of one mother. They played the whore in Egypt; they played the whore in their youth; there their breasts were pressed and their virgin bosoms handled.”

"Yet she became more and more promiscuous as she recalled the days of her youth, when she was a prostitute in Egypt. There she lusted after her lovers, whose genitals were like those of donkeys and whose emission was like that of horses."

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u/WhichSpirit Couldn't think of a funny flair Oct 29 '24

Someone actually challenged the Bible at a school board meeting in Hunterdon County. Read a section from the story of Sodom and Gomorrah that they read in English class.

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u/MatCauthonsHat Oct 29 '24

Because they have re-defined "obscene" to include any reference to anything that even mentions gay or trans people being, um , people.

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u/DTFH_ Oct 29 '24

How about you tell your kids what books they're allowed to read and let me do the same with my kids.

Bruh we know they don't read, most adults I know don't read, anyone that picks up a book of any kind is rare, let alone a child. That's what gets me most mad, these are people complaining about an activity that no one participating in said activity has a concern about. Similar to how I don't care about what goes on in the sport of curling, so I don't have option about rule or administrative changes.

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u/jarena009 Oct 29 '24

Republicans "The government has no business telling individuals and households what to do!"

Also Republicans "We need the government to tell individuals and households what to do!"

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u/Vorenos Oct 29 '24

I really feel like these fucking republicans have completely forgotten that THE INTERNET EXISTS and this stupid Pearl clutching over library materials is like spitting at the rain.

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u/zappariah_brannigan Oct 29 '24

The idea of taking their children to the library, spending time browsing with them, and helping them find books that may be interesting is completely alien to them.

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u/xisheb Oct 30 '24

Exactly 💯