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Chalkbeat Tennessee reports:
Two Tennessee lawmakers have filed a bill aimed at purging books and other materials deemed “obscene or harmful to minors” from school libraries. The bill, filed this week by Republicans Rep. Scott Cepicky of Culleoka and Sen. Joey Hensley [photo] of Hohenwald, would apply to public schools, including charter schools.
The proposal comes amid a national wave of book challenges, especially in politically conservative states like Tennessee, where individuals or groups are seeking to remove or restrict access to children’s and young adult books that they say contain pornography or other content deemed unwholesome.
Moms for Liberty, a conservative nonprofit group that originated in Florida, has targeted materials through its local chapter in Williamson County, near Nashville.
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Hensley first appeared on JMG in 2019 when he introduced a bill to ban same-sex couples from adopting.
Four-times-married Hensley, a physician, returned to our attention the following year when he was accused of prescribing opioids to family members and his girlfriend. His girlfriend, not incidentally, was his married cousin.
Hensley was also the sponsor of Tennessee’s infamous “Don’t Say Gay” public schools bill and he authored a bill which would have declared children conceived via artificial insemination to be illegitimate.
In 2017 he was accused of adultery in a local couple’s divorce filing. In 2015 one of his ex-wives took out an order of protection against him after she claimed he deliberately hit her twice with his car.
Cultist country music star John Rich is also among those leading the anti-books campaign in Tennessee. He last appeared on JMG in December 2020 when he bet a journalist $10,000 that Trump would not leave office despite having lost the election.
Rich was the winner of season 11 of The Celebrity Apprentice. Trump was the host and Trump’s children were the judges. This week Rich is among those spreading the “litter boxes for furries” lies.
I met with @GovBillLee and @SchwinnTeach today at the Capital building. They told me new legislation will be put on the docket in this session to deal with “literature” that our kids are being exposed to containing obscene and pornographic content. They listened. We’ll see.
— John Rich (@johnrich) January 11, 2022
That first one’s kind of rapey. Guess who’s lyrics… pic.twitter.com/Gj7CklQ2E6
— Rep. Gloria Johnson (@VoteGloriaJ) January 12, 2022
Tennessee Sen. Joey Hensley, a small-town doctor and staunchly conservative lawmaker, admitted through an attorney today that he prescribed opioids to an employee, his lover and his second cousin.
That’s not three separate people. It’s one. https://t.co/jfOVvPema2
— Brett Kelman (@BrettKelman) October 26, 2020
Hensley’s employee/lover/second cousin was also the wife of the then-vice mayor in the small town of Hohenwald, the seat of his senatorial district. The @NashvilleScene unearthed all this stuff back in 2017, prompting state officials to investigate.
— Brett Kelman (@BrettKelman) October 26, 2020