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WARNING: This report concerns pornographic material currently available in Illinois public school libraries. Reader discretion is advised.
WASHINGTON, D.C. (LifeSiteNews) – Republican U.S. Sen. John Kennedy of Louisiana grilled Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias on Capitol Hill Tuesday over the state forcing communities to tolerate pornographic books in public libraries, highlighting lurid details to which Illinois law forces children to have unfettered access.
Signed in June by Democrat Gov. J.B. Pritzker, Illinois’s HB 2789 declares it “the policy of the State to encourage and protect the freedom of libraries and library systems to acquire materials without external limitation and to be protected against attempts to ban, remove, or otherwise restrict access to books or other materials.” It requires library systems to abide by American Library Association’s Library Bill of Rights, which recognizes no age-based limits to content access, to be eligible for state grants.
During a U.S. Senate hearing on HB 2789 Tuesday, Kennedy read to Giannoulias passages from two of the books at issue: All Boys Aren’t Blue by George M. Johnson, which features a graphically described sex scene
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