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VETO HB29 “SENSITIVE MATERIALS AMENDMENTS” BILL

Utah legislators have just passed HB29, claiming that that librarians are distributing porn and should suffer criminal “consequences” for having books like Nobel Prize winning author Toni Morrison’s book The Bluest Eye, Judy Blume’s Forever, and Sherman Alexie’s The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian on high school library shelves. All of these books have been banned from high school libraries because they were deemed in violation of the “bright line rule” in Utah’s “Sensitive Materials” law, and therefore classified by legislators as pornography.

If the Governor signs HB29 into law, it will require ALL schools to purge books like these from their shelves if a handful of school districts anywhere in the state decide to ban the book. The bill also introduces more vague language that puts librarians, teachers, and school board members in legal jeopardy for having classic works of literature on high school library shelves.

Veto This Bill: Send a message to legislators that they should stop using national culture wars to divide Utahns

Unlike some legislators who are out to make political hay and use national culture war issues to divide us, Utahns understand that great American authors like Judy Blume, Sherman Alexie, and Toni Morrison are not pornographers, and no one should be criminally charged for selling, giving, or lending a book to a high school student. We also understand that our communities should have the right to elect local board members who make educational policy that support local students and parents.

Tell Governor Cox to VETO this bill, to stop threatening librarians with criminal charges, and preserve local control of our schools so that good literature isn’t being purged from school library shelves across Utah.

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