Even though Oklahoma doesn’t have, hasn’t had, and will never have a problem with porn and smut making its way into public school libraries, right-wing evangelical lawmakers keep doing their best to fight the nonexistent issue.
Earlier this week, lawmakers orally debated HB 2978 on the House floor. A piece of legislation that serves no real purpose, it would define and ban “sexually explicit content” – from second base to third base and all the way home – from public school libraries.
Although nobody wants sexually explicit material in public school libraries, the bill goes overboard because – by defining what constitutes sexually explicit content – it effectively erases context and literary value as determining factors in what is and isn’t considered “sexually explicit.”
That’s a problem because many great works of literature could technically be considered to contain sexually explicit content – from The Handmaid’s Tale to The Color Purple to the one book every Republican apparently wants in the classroom: the Bible.
Hunky lawmaker Mickey “Heartbreaker” Dollens noticed this.
He stopped messaging on Hinge long enough to specifically ask if Ezekiel 23:20 – the part where the Bible talks about donkey dicks and horse semen – would be considered sexually explicit. Here’s the video: