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Controversial Senate Hearing Exposes Book Bans and Censorship Attempts

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Controversial Senate Hearing Exposes Book Bans and Censorship Attempts
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Republican Senator John Kennedy went viral after reading explicit passages from banned books during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on book bans and censorship. Kennedy recited graphic sex scenes from the books "All Boys Aren't Blue" and "Gender Queer," questioning whether librarians or parents should have the authority to decide what books are available to children. Illinois Secretary of State Alexi Giannoulias and another witness attempted to explain their position, but Kennedy criticized their lack of a clear solution.

Topics:top-newspolitics#book-bans#censorship#lgbtq-literature#politics#senate-judiciary-committee#senator-john-kennedy
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  1. You Cannot Un-See GOP Senator Reciting Sex Scene At Hearing: 'I Began To Slide Into Him From Behind'  Mediaite
  2. U.S. Senate hearing on book bans taking place today  FOX 2 St. Louis
  3. Alexi Giannoulias testifies in Senate on Illinois' anti-book ban law  CBS Chicago
  4. Book ban defenders use sex scenes to make their point at Senate hearing  The Hill
  5. U.S. Senate hearing on book bans probes censorship attempts in local libraries  Iowa Capital Dispatch
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