Hensley did not respond to a request for an interview. Bill Lee and Education Commissioner Penny Schwinn to discuss materials “that our kids are being exposed to containing obscene and pornographic content.”Ĭepicky declined Friday to comment about his bill, which has 22 co-sponsors in the House.
Members of that group have used the public comment period of recent school board meetings to read excerpts they found objectionable.Īnd, John Rich, a well-known country music singer and conservative activist with a large Twitter following, tweeted about meeting this month with Gov. Moms for Liberty, a conservative nonprofit group that originated in Florida, has targeted materials through its local chapter in Williamson County, near Nashville. 10 meeting cited “inappropriate language” and an illustration of a nude woman.
Tennessee is a growing hotbed of complaints.Įarlier this month in East Tennessee, McMinn County’s school board voted to remove “Maus,” a Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel about the Holocaust, from its required reading list for eighth-graders. In Texas and South Carolina, Republican governors have called for action against “obscene” content in school libraries, while school leaders in Missouri, Virginia, and Florida have pulled materials, including some award-winning books, after receiving complaints over a range of concerns.
The proposal comes amid a national wave of book challenges, especially in politically conservative states like Tennessee, where individuals or groups are seeking to remove or restrict access to children’s and young adult books that they say contain pornography or other content deemed unwholesome.įederal law strictly prohibits distribution of obscene material to minors.
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