Unfortunately the time's come where Governor Abbott has just signed
HB 900, a bill by Jared Patterson, which is a
book banning bill.
Again, I'm not exaggerating.
I want to remind everyone that this conversation happened between
Patterson and a former school teacher.
Is sex with a prostitute patently offensive to you?
Y yes.
Yes.
It is.
Okay.
So if if sex with a prostitute is sexual conduct
and patently offensive under your bill, lonesome dove by Larry
McMurch would be banned in school libraries across Texas.
I'm just saying if we're doing this so broadly to
where you're sweeping in lonesome dove, then we need to
tighten up the language.
Well, and and I don't care if it's lonesome dove
or any other novel.
Bill, it's up to us to tighten the bill to
make sure that when vendors are looking, they don't ban
lonesome dove because that's crazy.
They might need to ban lonesome dove, though.
That's my point.
I mean, I I think that's helpful to hear from
you that that that would be the intended that would
be the consequence.
If if it's sexually explicit, if it is, then it
should not be.
Yeah, because I'm the one that wrote the bill.