Oklahoma bill lets parents ban LGBTQ books from schools and sue if staff won’t listen

As conservatives across the country move to ban books on LGBTQ topics from schools, an Oklahoma legislator has taken it to the next level.

Republican State Senator Rob Standridge has introduced a bill that would give individual parents the power to demand the removal of any book from school shelves that they believe contains LGBTQ content.

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The bill, SB 1142, states that schools should be banned from carrying texts that cover “the study of sex, sexual preferences, sexual activity, sexual perversion, sex-based classifications, sexual identity, or gender identity or books that are of a sexual nature.”

It claims these books must be banned because “a…

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