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The Daily Article

Texas governor seeks to ban "pornographic" books in public school libraries

The Daily Article

The Denison Forum

Christianity, Daily News, News, Religion & Spirituality

4.9576 Ratings

🗓️ 12 November 2021

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

Gov. Greg Abbott is directing Texas education officials to investigate whether pornography is available in the state's public schools. The normalization of immorality has affected not only the culture at large but also American Christians. In The Daily Article for November 12, 2021, Dr. Jim Denison urges us to examine how we have normalized sin in our own lives.

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before they're gone. Go to daily article.org. Again, that's daily

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article.org. Governor Greg Abbott is directing Texas education officials to investigate

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whether pornography is available in the state's public schools and to notify law enforcement

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if such materials found to be accessible. In a letter to Education Commissioner Mike Morath,

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he noted, the presence of pornography in schools is not only inappropriate, but it is also

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against the law. In previous correspondence, the governor cited two books

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removed from libraries in the cities of Keller and Leander. According to the Dallas Morning

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News, Keller removed Gender Queer, a memoir by Maria Kobabi, after complaints of the book's

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