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.”