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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Justin Rohrlich

Moms for Liberty goes to war with New York school over five library books

Moms for Liberty wants five books, some by bestselling authors, banished from an Upstate New York school library, claiming they contain “pornography” - (AP)

Moms for Liberty, an ultra-conservative parental rights outfit the Southern Poverty Law Center considers an extremist organization, is fighting to immediately remove five “obscene” library books from an Upstate New York public school, insisting they are simply too dangerous to keep on the shelves.

The body of work being challenged supposedly “normalizes violence and abuse of women and children, depicts rape, equates violence and pain with pleasure, [and] encourages and normalizes early sexual activity among minors,” according to a petition filed this week in Wayne County Supreme Court by Moms for Liberty and an area evangelical pastor.

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