Let me make sure I understand this correctly. In April 2022, I filed petitions with 63 Florida school districts asking them to remove the Bible from school classrooms and libraries. My reasoning was airtight: DeSantis had just signed HB 1467, empowering parents to challenge “obscene” materials. The Bible — rape, infanticide, bestiality, Psalm 137:9 (“Happy is the one who seizes …
Could North Dakota’s controversial new obscenity law actually lead to banning the Bible? That’s exactly the kind of provocative question First Amendment firebrand Chaz Stevens has raised in a bold new challenge directed squarely at Attorney General Drew Wrigley. The Curious Case of SB 2307 Recently signed into law, North Dakota’s SB 2307 is intended to protect minors from obscene …
By Christopher Hitchens (posthumously and hypothetically) In the pious circus of American politics, where scripture is brandished like a cudgel by those who’ve barely cracked its pages, Chaz Stevens has emerged as a gleeful ringmaster of reason. His latest act takes us to North Dakota, where Senate Bill 2307—a work of legislative theatre cloaked in the moral garb of “protecting …