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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago

Libraries:

  • Voluntary attendance

  • No required reading lists

  • Religious texts from most faiths, and books about those religions

Schools:

  • Penalties for both parents and students for attendance issues

  • State-mandated curriculums

  • Literally just ten rules from the Old Testament

It's not a political response to anything, it's a fear-based, lizard-brain reaction to it being broadly socially acceptable for queer people to exist. Decades of hate- and fearmongering, indoctrination, and tribalism caused this, not the mere existence of queer people in public.