Florida school districts and public libraries have become battlegrounds for MAGA morons determined to indoctrinate students in radical ideologies.
U.S. District court Judge T. Kent Wetherell II refused the state's request to throw out the plaintiff's case against book banning and gave the district 28 days to respond. The judge ruled that the First Amendment claim could move forward.
In a truly stunning move, the School District even banned at least five dictionaries along with eight different encyclopedias.
* The American Heritage Children's Dictionary
* Webster's Dictionary for Students
* Merriam-Webster's Elementary Dictionary
* The Clear and Thesaurus Dictionary
* The Dictionary of Costume
The Guinness Book of World Records and Ripley's Believe it or Not, were among the eight banned encyclopedias.
Pen America, an organization that supports prosecuted writers and promotes literary culture filed the lawsuit against Escambia last May.
The school district is trying to keep students from accessing dictionaries which, in defining sex and other concepts like LGBTQ, are considered to violate state law 1069.
However, the judge said the district could remove books only for legitimate reasons, such as the inclusion of pornographic material, not because officials consider them "woke" or immoral.
This lawsuit is extremely important. It's a first of its kind federal lawsuit alleging that an earlier set of book bans and restrictions violate their rights to free speech and equal protection under the law.
As it stands, the far-right lunatics in this country are doing their best to take away our freedoms, from women's rights to banning books. We're in a battle to retain the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution. Vote Blue in November.
