Conservative-dominated court restores books denounced by officials as ‘pornographic filth’ to school libraries

An appellate court has ruled that Texas cannot ban books from libraries simply because they mention “butt and fart” and other content which some state officials may dislike.

The fifth US circuit court of appeals issued its decision on Thursday in a 76-page majority opinion, which was written by Judge Jacques Wiener Jr and opened with a quote from American poet Walt Whitman: “The dirtiest book in all the world is the expurgated book.”

In its decision, the appellate court declared that “government actors may not remove books from a public library with the intent to deprive patrons of access to ideas with which they disagree”.

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    The Bible describes God showing Moses his ‘backside’, which a number of actual scholars interpret as including his butt.

    Not sure about farts in the Bible, but there’s stories about rape, incest, at one point a description of men with ‘emission like donkeys’, ie, huge cum loads from big dicks.

    They seem to never learn that if you try to ban ‘pornographic’ text, you’ll have to ban the Bible as well.

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      Nuh uh. I swored on the bi-bull three times. That ain’t in there. I never heard my preacher say that and all he ever talked about was the bi-bull.

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        Kids fucking live for fart and butt jokes. I’ve never seen a group of children giggle harder than when I watched a teacher read “I Need a New Butt.”

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          My older kids went through a phase where they were just randomly saying “butt” for like a year. By the end of it I couldn’t stand my own ass.

          “Hey dad, dad, DAD!”

          “What is it kiddo?”

          “Butts! Ahahahahaha. Just picture it, crack down the middle, poopin’, just hanging out being a butt.”

          When I realized I hadn’t heard the word “butt” for a few months, my sigh of relief could have changed the orbit of the planet.

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      for extra effect, I recommend reading through the opinion first before imagining. The high quality of the writing really accentuates the ludicrous degree of clown shit on display from the GOP.

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      The primary opinion is only 27 pages. The rest is a three page concurrence a 46 page dissent by Duncan.

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      To be fair, he didn’t have to make it that long.

      On the other hand, we wouldn’t have gotten this:

      • Seven “butt and fart” books, with titles like I Broke My Butt! and Larry the Farting Leprechaun;

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    And these old farts are complaining about how “soft” today’s youth are? They really need to get their heads out of their butts.

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    Anyone else thinking that this Judge would have gotten his autobiography banned for profanity just for the name?

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    Every child between the ages of 2 and 10 would find a book with nothing but the words ‘butt’ and ‘fart’ endlessly amusing.

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    Apparently terms that anyone over 12 years old doesn’t find funny anymore count as “adult”.

    Is this conservatives admitting that they are all just immature children?

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    Butts make funny noises when you pass gas. Babies laugh at it. They have no idea what’s going on at all 95% of the time, but they get that farts are funny.