Federal Judge Blocks Iowa’s “Don’t Say Gay” Law

The Associated Press reports:

A federal judge on Friday temporarily blocked key parts of an Iowa law that bans some books from school libraries and forbids teachers from raising LGBTQ+ issues.

Judge Stephen Locher’s preliminary injunction halts enforcement of the law, which was set to take effect Jan. 1 but already had resulted in the removal of hundreds of books from Iowa schools.

The law, which the Republican-led Legislature and GOP Gov. Kim Reynolds approved early in 2023, bans books depicting sex acts from school libraries and classrooms and forbids teachers from raising gender identity and sexual orientation issues with students through the sixth grade. Locher blocked enforcement of those two provisions.

Read the full article. The lawsuits were filed by the ACLU, Lambda Legal, book publishers, and the Iowa State Education Association. Judge Locher was nominated by Biden upon the recommendation of GOP Iowa senators Chuck Grassley and Joni Ernst.

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