IA Senate Passes Sweeping Anti-LGBTQ Education Bill

March 23, 2023 Christianists, Republicans

The Iowa Capital Dispatch reports:

The Iowa Senate passed a bill Wednesday restricting books and instruction related to LGBTQ identities in Iowa classrooms and libraries. Lawmakers changed language in Senate File 496 Wednesday, before passing it 34-16. The amendment to Gov. Kim Reynolds’ “parental rights” bill added requirements that school libraries not include materials which depict, visually or textually, any sex act. The final bill also bans instruction and materials related to gender identity and sexual orientation in K-6 classrooms.

Sen. Ken Rozenboom, R-Oskaloosa, said opponents of the legislation were using “hyperbole, exaggeration, misrepresentations” to criticize the bill. Sen. Herman Quirmbach, D-Ames, cited sections of the Bible that he said could lead to its ban from school libraries for descriptions of sex acts under the bill’s definition. “If a school board decides to remove the Bible from their library, I guess they could do that,” Rozenboom responded. “Most of us have Bibles at home.”

Read the full article. The full bill includes anti-transgender actions seen in many other red states. Watch the clip below.



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