allies and morphed into a campaign against supposed indoctrination of children on race and sexuality. i have a right to say i don t want my kids to learn this, i don t agree with this movement. that s my right. reporter: we wanted to understand what s driving these moms on a deeper level than some viral videos, so we met with the chapter in el paso county, colorado, where conservatives have majorities on three school boards in 2021. we watched a meeting where they talked about how to pressure the school boards into what they want. what they are most famous for is claiming school libraries contain books with pornographic. i ve read a lot of criticism of your group. people say this is like a moral
and hate speech. we ll put that aside. also, i want to ask you about the impact that these bans are having on teachers. it s hard enough to be a teacher or a school administrator or to be a librarian. now, they re scared they re going to lose their jobs, one wrong move. it is very intimidating, absolutely. the way these laws work, you have the don t say gay law in florida. they just passed this don t say they law, which is banning the discussion of pronouns in schools. for teachers, they don t know where the trip wires are. what book might be on the shelf that can get them in hot water. what book is something that parents can call pornographic. barely a kiss now is treated like pornography. it s a movement to suppress books and ideas, to put administrators and educators on notice, that they may be disciplined or even fired if
they said since some ninth through 12th graders are at a third grade reading level, those students would enjoy reading a book for fourth graders. tell me about the books you found that were also banned. this is what happens a lot with governor desantis. you played those clips from the march press conference where he says, 87% of these books are either pornographic or violent or inappropriate. as it turns out, there were only 22% that were actually labeled pornographic. i went ahead and looked at those because we finally have the survey this was based on, and a lot of them were just like the ones you mentioned in your introduction. just a picture, a drawing of, you know, a naked butt, for instance, would be considered porn agraphic, which isn t pornography. it s laid out in florida statute that it has to appeal primarily
A cultural analyst says a parent s demand to classify the Bible as "pornographic" and have it removed from the local high school s library is "nothing more than a political stunt."
landau library saga started when a group of residents pushed to get 17 books removed from the shelves. the titles included cast by pulitzer prize winning author isabel wilkerson. they called themselves the kkk, the birth of an american terrorist group being jazz my life as a transgender teen. and some children s books that have farts and butts in the titles. suzette baker is the former atlanta librarian who was fired last year by county officials for refusing to remove the books. i would like to know how the history of the kkk it s pornographic. anti racist. how s that pornographic? it s not this is about taking away. right some of the critics of these books have described them as pornographic and inappropriate for children. what do you say to that there s nothing pornographic or obscene in them. and so i think to frame it is that, um, it s just wrong. last year, leila green little and six other leno residents sued county