{"id":249,"date":"2007-07-21T09:50:34","date_gmt":"2007-07-21T13:50:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.flascience.org\/wp\/?p=249"},"modified":"2008-08-05T13:46:26","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T17:46:26","slug":"no-book-ban-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"No book ban here"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bravo to the Palm Beach County School Board for denying a woman’s request to ban about 80 books<\/a> from the school system libraries. Wise and, in my opinion, easy decision.<\/p>\n

Ms. Lopez, who had not read any of the books all the way through, wanted the school district to chuck books that dealt with such topics as homosexuality, atheism and evolution. As a parent, Ms. Lopez can forbid her own children to read such books. But her right to enforce her biases doesn’t extend beyond her family circle.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bravo to the Palm Beach County School Board for denying a woman’s request to ban about 80 books from the school system libraries. Wise and, in my opinion, easy decision. Ms. Lopez, who had not read any of the books … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcZNLl-41","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2690,"url":"https:\/\/www.flascience.org\/?p=2690","url_meta":{"origin":249,"position":0},"title":"\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How could this go sideways?\u00e2\u20ac\u009d","author":"Brandon Haught","date":"April 18, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursday is probably our last realistic chance to put the brakes on, or at least challenge, the creationist and climate change denier's dream bill: Instructional Materials bills SB 1210 and HB 989. 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