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Bible's Rape, Incest Passages Read at Book Banning Senate Hearing - Iowa Starting Line [View all]
Passages from a number of books that could be considered “obscene” under an enhanced legal definition of the word were read during a Thursday Iowa Senate subcommittee hearing, including an excerpt from the Bible.
Keenan Crow, director of policy and advocacy for One Iowa Action, read the Old Testament story of Lot and his daughters during the hearing. The passage came from Genesis 19 in which Lot’s two daughters get him drunk on wine so they can sleep with him without his consent to keep their family lineage going.
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The hearing was over SF 2198, a bill introduced by Iowa Senate President Jake Chapman (R-Adel) who has led the charge on book-banning and finding ways to prosecute Iowa educators who don’t agree with his definition of obscenity.
Chapman’s wide-ranging bill covers everything from civil litigation to how long a teacher should be placed in jail for assigning certain books to stripping county attorneys of legal immunity for not acting on obscene material cases in a timely manner.
It also punishes teachers and administrators for assigning reading materials considered obscene, which is used interchangeably by Chapman with “hardcore pornography” in the bill.
more...https://iowastartingline.com/2022/02/12/bibles-rape-incest-passages-read-at-book-banning-senate-hearing/
Keenan Crow, director of policy and advocacy for One Iowa Action, read the Old Testament story of Lot and his daughters during the hearing. The passage came from Genesis 19 in which Lot’s two daughters get him drunk on wine so they can sleep with him without his consent to keep their family lineage going.
...snip...
The hearing was over SF 2198, a bill introduced by Iowa Senate President Jake Chapman (R-Adel) who has led the charge on book-banning and finding ways to prosecute Iowa educators who don’t agree with his definition of obscenity.
Chapman’s wide-ranging bill covers everything from civil litigation to how long a teacher should be placed in jail for assigning certain books to stripping county attorneys of legal immunity for not acting on obscene material cases in a timely manner.
It also punishes teachers and administrators for assigning reading materials considered obscene, which is used interchangeably by Chapman with “hardcore pornography” in the bill.
more...https://iowastartingline.com/2022/02/12/bibles-rape-incest-passages-read-at-book-banning-senate-hearing/
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