Opinion: Protecting children from explicit material shouldn't be controversial

For more than two years now, parents, community members, and legislators — awakened to the pornographic nature of some materials that remain in Utah K-12 schools — have borne a surprising amount of ridicule and scorn. Second, they insist that age-appropriate limits for children in K-12 public schools violate the First Amendment. Third, they argue that uniformly enforcing statewide the 2007 criminal standard for indecent and pornographic materials at school offends the notion of “local control.”

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