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Brisketexan

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9 minutes ago, conVINCEd said:

I agree with hot wheels that pornography has no place in public schools, but I strongly suspect that we would disagree on what constitutes pornography.

New Texas definition of "pornography": anything that deviates from MAGA orthodoxy.  Such thoughts pollute young minds, which should be protected from everything except those things that Make America Great Again, which is a standard to be decided solely by the 100% GQP controlled state government.

There, I guessed it.  What do I win?  Oh, a book burning party?  Sounds swell!

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Pure political theater.

TASB has no authority to even issue guidance to School Boards or Districts or schools concerning libary content or any of that.

In fact, I would guess that this is somehow related to NASB's letter to DOJ about parental terrorists.

Also, Abbott has no authority to order the various agencies that do have authority on these issues to do anything.

Shameful, shameless bullshit.

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Brisketexan

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8 minutes ago, TwiceHorn said:

Pure political theater.

TASB has no authority to even issue guidance to School Boards or Districts or schools concerning libary content or any of that.

In fact, I would guess that this is somehow related to NASB's letter to DOJ about parental terrorists.

Also, Abbott has no authority to order the various agencies that do have authority on these issues to do anything.

Shameful, shameless bullshit.

I mean, this too.  TASB has ZERO authority, so the "in the wake of TASB's negligence" is a flat-out lie.

But lies are all the GQP traffics in these days, so why be surprised?

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When is Abbott banning the Bible?

Genesis 19:34: The next day the firstborn told the younger one, "Look! I had sex with my father last night. Let's make him drink wine tonight again as well. Then you have sex with him, too. That way we'll preserve our father's lineage."

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9 minutes ago, washparkhorn said:

When is Abbott banning the Bible?

Genesis 19:34: The next day the firstborn told the younger one, "Look! I had sex with my father last night. Let's make him drink wine tonight again as well. Then you have sex with him, too. That way we'll preserve our father's lineage."

Porn! Ban it!

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Genesis 19:34: The next day the firstborn told the younger one, "Look! I had sex with my father last night. Let's make him drink wine tonight again as well. Then you have sex with him, too. That way we'll preserve our father's lineage."

I'll be in my bunk.

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Brisketexan

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I mean, I know of a book with a passage that discusses, at some length, how great pussy tastes, how a woman longs for her man to go down on her, how good dick tastes, how tits are like both ripe fruit and soft cuddly animals.  I presume that there is NO way we can have that anywhere near a school, right?

 

Gotta love that Song of Solomon -- Old Testament folks knew what was up.

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The fuck is this state overreach bullshit?  If parents don't like a book in the school library they can go vote for school board.  Or you know, mind their own fucking business and tell their kids not to check it out.

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1 hour ago, TwiceHorn said:

Pure political theater.

TASB has no authority to even issue guidance to School Boards or Districts or schools concerning libary content or any of that.

In fact, I would guess that this is somehow related to NASB's letter to DOJ about parental terrorists.

Also, Abbott has no authority to order the various agencies that do have authority on these issues to do anything.

Shameful, shameless bullshit.

He can lean on the SBOE though, and they have a meeting next week. If I understand how that works, any proposed rule changes have a period of public comment and so it would behoove citizens to comment when that comes up. The problem is, many of the rules never receive much notice as they are under review, and it takes a couple of links to get to the text of the agenda items. Sadly, most folks aren't going to bother or think it's just fine. If a parent wishes to restrict what their offspring read, that's their choice, but they don't get to determine my child's access to materials. As @conVINCEd stated above, what I believe is pornography likely differs from the Cleti. My perspective was broadened by reading Alice Walker's The Color Purple, by Shakespeare, by viewing art that showed *gasp* naked people painted by Reubens, etc. Would they ban books with pictures of The Fall of Man by Titian? As others pointed out, the Bible? Considering they just approved for the New Testament to be taught as an elective subject, that could be awkward. Expanding the American Library Associations list of the 100 most banned or challenged books to 1000 is not something to which the state of Texas should aspire.

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14 minutes ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

He can lean on the SBOE though, and they have a meeting next week. If I understand how that works, any proposed rule changes have a period of public comment and so it would behoove citizens to comment when that comes up. The problem is, many of the rules never receive much notice as they are under review, and it takes a couple of links to get to the text of the agenda items. Sadly, most folks aren't going to bother or think it's just fine. If a parent wishes to restrict what their offspring read, that's their choice, but they don't get to determine my child's access to materials. As @conVINCEd stated above, what I believe is pornography likely differs from the Cleti. My perspective was broadened by reading Alice Walker's The Color Purple, by Shakespeare, by viewing art that showed *gasp* naked people painted by Reubens, etc. Would they ban books with pictures of The Fall of Man by Titian? As others pointed out, the Bible? Considering they just approved for the New Testament to be taught as an elective subject, that could be awkward. Expanding the American Library Associations list of the 100 most banned or challenged books to 1000 is not something to which the state of Texas should aspire.

Really about all he can do is politically threaten members of the Board (primarying, etc.).  

I believe it is too late to put any item responding to this on the SBOE agenda for action in the upcoming meeting.  It will probably blow over by the next one.

The only real point of this is the tweet and the press release.

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3 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

He can lean on the SBOE though, and they have a meeting next week. If I understand how that works, any proposed rule changes have a period of public comment and so it would behoove citizens to comment when that comes up. The problem is, many of the rules never receive much notice as they are under review, and it takes a couple of links to get to the text of the agenda items. Sadly, most folks aren't going to bother or think it's just fine. If a parent wishes to restrict what their offspring read, that's their choice, but they don't get to determine my child's access to materials. As @conVINCEd stated above, what I believe is pornography likely differs from the Cleti. My perspective was broadened by reading Alice Walker's The Color Purple, by Shakespeare, by viewing art that showed *gasp* naked people painted by Reubens, etc. Would they ban books with pictures of The Fall of Man by Titian? As others pointed out, the Bible? Considering they just approved for the New Testament to be taught as an elective subject, that could be awkward. Expanding the American Library Associations list of the 100 most banned or challenged books to 1000 is not something to which the state of Texas should aspire.

About 10 years ago some homophobe went on a rampage at our school because The Kite Runner had a males on male rape.   Just dumb.  

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https://www.kxan.com/news/texas-politics/bigger-problems-than-books-texas-parents-split-on-what-lawmakers-should-be-focused-on/

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The TEA has not yet provided details or a timeline on when these statewide standards will be set. The agency said it is taking the Governor’s directive seriously. 

“As directed, we will work closely with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the State Board of Education to develop statewide standards to prevent the presence of pornography and other obscene content in our public schools, including school libraries. We appreciate the Governor’s leadership on this,” Commissioner Mike Morath said Monday.

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This week, Governor Greg Abbott directed the Texas Education Agency, State Board of Education and the Texas State Library and Archives Commission to establish statewide standards for books found in our public school libraries. 

Governor Abbott said it’s an effort to prevent the presence of “pornography and obscene content” in public school libraries. He cites three recent instances at Texas schools, including one book found at a Keller ISD library.

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https://www.texastribune.org/2021/11/10/abbott-pornography-texas-school-books/

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Gov. Greg Abbott calls for criminal investigation into availability of pornographic content in public schools

Gov. Greg Abbott told the Texas Education Agency on Wednesday "to investigate any criminal activity" related to "the availability of pornography" in public schools, saying that the agency should "refer any instance being provided to minors under the age of 18 for prosecution to the fullest extent of the law."

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Abbott's request comes two days after he asked the agency, along with the Texas State Library and Archives Commission and the State Board of Education, to develop statewide standards preventing "obscene content in Texas public schools."

While those standards are developed, Abbott wrote to the TEA in his letter Wednesday, "more immediate action is needed to protect Texas students" against that inappropriate content, which he said is "a clear violation" of state law.

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TEA officials could not be immediately reached. It was immediately unclear whether TEA has the ability to investigate criminal activity.

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Abbott wrote to the TEA in his letter Wednesday, "more immediate action is needed to protect Texas students"

Against mass shootings right? Oh wait. Books? We're talking about books?

Cause every kid I know just can't wait until mom and dad goes to sleep so they can open the window, climb out, shimmy down the downspout, and then go break into the high school library to read this titillating filth, but be sure to be back before sunrise so parents won't know.

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Books.

Meanwhile, a student can take their phone, not connect it to the school's wifi, look up lemonparty.org and share it with the class if they want.  Or, even if they want a good old fashioned book, the library probably has an arrangement to get the book from another library out of state, or from one of the fine universities and colleges within the state.

It's funny that porn is back in vogue.  I'm assuming that CRT and everything else that was trendy is no longer polling well enough to bother with.

 

 

 

 

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14 hours ago, Dutchrudder said:

My favorite bible verse of all time:ezekiel-2320-mens-t-shirt.jpg

that's a good one too, but most translations err on the side of prudence when it comes to this and other passages.  to wit..taking into account both literal and idiom...

"She really wanted to fuck her lovers again, all of whom had cocks as big as a donkey and jizzed like horses."

that's actually much closer to how it would be read in the original during that time period.  and frankly how it should be translated.

i fucking love sluts so much.

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4 hours ago, Mrs Whiggins said:

Going after the librarians is something not unexpected in this sad and tragic timeline.

I honestly didn't have it on my Bingo card that Abbott was so incredibly desperate to have a librarian, teacher, or some parent that donated a book to a library, arrested.

It's sad how pathetic and weak the GOP is.  

 

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