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DeSantis Florida Attorney General Compares Gay Penguin Books To Nazi Propaganda

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Ron DeSantis‘s Attorney General Ashley Moody compared a children’s book about a same-sex penguin couple to Nazi propaganda in a legal filing for a case that is challenging the state’s anti-LGBTQ+ book ban. The lawsuit filed by authors and book publishers against the Escambia County School Board says the board violated authors’ and publishers’ First Amendment free speech rights by removing a gay-inclusive children’s book, And Tango Makes Three, and other books from its shelves. The book, one of the country’s most frequently banned books, is about a same-sex penguin couple raising a chick. However, Moody says the book’s removal doesn’t violate free speech protection because public school systems make value-based judgments on what material students can access every day. In her brief Moody wrote,” Public school systems exclude materials like Nazi propaganda because they disagree that Nazis were wonderful.” Tellingly, the brief also mentions two LGBTQ+-related Supreme Court cases to support the argument: Hurley v. Irish-American Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Group of Boston (1995) and 303 Creative LLC. v. Elenis (2023). But both cases examined whether the government could force private business owners to express support for the LGBTQ+ community against their will. Comparatively, the Florida case is about whether the government can censor texts about queers and marginalized groups.

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    Alex is a local DJ and has her own podcast - Lez Podcast as well as founder and CEO of The HUG Movement, an organization created to raise awareness & to encourage others to instill more compassion and kindness into the world. She is also the owner of the FRIED Media, LLC, which is a full service interactive digital media agency that believes in visual storytelling through social media to help manifest the brands of those that they work with.

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