SC Legislature banning books?

[WisIndependent]

The South Carolina Legislature is cutting funding to a state university for having a book that's theme deals with homosexuals. They are cutting almost $18,000.00 this year and another $52,000.00 next year.

 

[Derideo_Te]

The South Carolina Legislature is cutting funding to a state university for having a book that's theme deals with homosexuals. They are cutting almost $18,000.00 this year and another $52,000.00 next year.

Link?

 

[TheOldSchool]

There's a reason the state is in the bottom 10 for education in this country

 

[martybegan]

The South Carolina Legislature is cutting funding to a state university for having a book that's theme deals with homosexuals. They are cutting almost $18,000.00 this year and another $52,000.00 next year.

Yeah, link would be nice.

Also how is reducing funding suddenly equal to a book ban?

 

[TheOldSchool]

Red State Tyranny: South Carolina Republicans Cut College Funding Over Gay Themed Books

^It's ridiculously biased but it's all I could find. It does have quotes from Republicans saying that they wanted to make a point and that they wanted it to hurt

 

[bendog]

yeah, I saw it. And there's this

South Carolina legislators cut university funding over gay-themed books

 

[Katzndogz]

Read the article. The school is requiring reading gay themed books and eliminating books based on our founding documents.

 

[TheOldSchool]

Read the article. The school is requiring reading gay themed books and eliminating books based on our founding documents.

Republicans do love some good old government intervention.

Democrats who opposed the cuts said lawmakers who wanted to manage a university’s reading list should run for positions on the state Board of Trustees, which oversees the state’s public universities.

 

[bendog]

First to secede.

 

[Derideo_Te]

yeah, I saw it. And there's this

South Carolina legislators cut university funding over gay-themed books

Thank you Old School and Bendog for the links.

This reeks of censorship. The state of SC does not have the right to dictate what anyone is allowed to read under the 1st Amendment. Since the Supreme Court has declared that money equals free speech (Citizens United) the withholding of funds for specific books is a denial of free speech rights by the state of SC.

This case will probably be taken up the ACLU and the anti-gay brigade will go ballistic in my opinion.

 

[Katzndogz]

It wasn't about gay themed books being offered. It was about gay themed books being required which IS coercion. May as well require gays to read the Bible.

 

[Derideo_Te]

It wasn't about gay themed books being offered. It was about gay themed books being required which IS coercion. May as well require gays to read the Bible.

So now schools are no longer allowed to tell students which books they are required to read for their course work?

 

[bendog]

Ah, there just isn't enough info out there. I saw in an earlier story, that I can't find now, some students objected to a social worker text that was less than favorable to Reagan. Whatever. Maybe it was a crummy book. I don't know.

But when you get a bunch of part time legislators trying to tell college profs what to teach, ten time out of ten they won't know their butt from a hole in the ground, and they won't even understand why there's a difference.

For all we know, they could have been using the kite runner in a poly sci course. but, it's South Carolina.

 

[blackhawk]

As was asked earlier how is cutting funding banning books?

 

[bendog]

and ignored as stinky bait.

 

[blackhawk]

Ignored because nothing is being banned.

 

[Derideo_Te]

As was asked earlier how is cutting funding banning books?

Per the links the SC legislators made the connection between books and funding so they have to deal with the consequences of what they provided as a rationalization for their defiance of the 1st Amendment.

If they had simply cut the funding and then given the reason verbally without any witnesses present there would have been no way to prove that there was any connection.

But they were proud of being censors and wanted to be recognized as such and so they will have to deal with the consequences.

 

[williepete]

So, if I'm caught with one of these books in South Carolina, what's going to happen to me? It's banned after all. What's the penalty?


de·fund

verb

verb: defund; 3rd person present: defunds; past tense: defunded; past participle: defunded; gerund or present participle: defunding; verb: de-fund; 3rd person present: de-funds; past tense: de-funded; past participle: de-funded; gerund or present participle: de-funding

1. prevent from continuing to receive funds.


ban

verb

1. officially or legally prohibit.
"he was banned from driving for a year"

synonyms: prohibit, forbid, veto, proscribe, disallow, outlaw, make illegal, embargo, bar, debar, block, stop, suppress, interdict; More
enjoin, restrain

"smoking was banned"

•officially exclude (someone) from a place.
"he once was banned from a casino in Reno"

synonyms: exclude, banish, expel, eject, evict, drive out, force out, oust, remove, get rid of.
"Gary was banned from the playground"

 

[Derideo_Te]

Members of the South Carolina House of Representatives on Wednesday voted to cut $70,000 in funding from two public colleges that assigned two books about same-sex relationships to freshmen students.
The legislators voted to cut $17,000 in funding from the University of South Carolina Upstate for assigning “Out Loud: The Best of Rainbow Radio,” a collection of stories first broadcast on a state radio program. The panel cut $52,000 from the College of Charleston’s budget for assigning “Fun Home,” a graphic autobiography about a young woman growing up in rural Pennsylvania. The amounts reflect the money the two universities spent purchasing the two books.

“One of the things I learned over the years is that if you want to make a point, you have to make it hurt,” state Rep. Garry Smith (R), who pushed for the cuts, told The State newspaper.

South Carolina legislators cut university funding over gay-themed books

 

[Quantum Windbag]

The South Carolina Legislature is cutting funding to a state university for having a book that's theme deals with homosexuals. They are cutting almost $18,000.00 this year and another $52,000.00 next year.

I hate to disappoint you, but, even if this is true, not giving people money is not the same as banning something.