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U.S. News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 5 months ago

Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

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Utah outlaws books by Judy Blume and Sarah J Maas in first statewide ban

www.theguardian.com

alyaza [they/she]@beehaw.orgM to

U.S. News@beehaw.orgEnglish · 5 months ago

State has ordered 13 books by seven authors, six of them women, to be removed from every public school classroom and library

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It’s not the entire US, that state was settled and run by religious nuts. It’s gradually getting diluted, but the mormon church has a chokehold on the state government and a shitton of money. Religion makes people super weird.

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