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TRUMPET NOTES: Judge Blocks Part of Ark. Law Protecting Children From Explicit Library Material
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On July 28, U.S. District Judge Timothy Brooks blocked two sections of Act 372 of 2023, a good law that generally prohibits giving or sending a child harmful material that contains nudity or sexual activity. The law also eliminates exemptions for libraries and schools in the state’s obscenity statute, and it clarifies how library patrons can work to remove objectionable material from a library’s catalog.
The law was slated to take effect Aug. 1, but in June, a coalition of libraries in ...
STAND FIRM: Church, We Must Get Israel Right
When I first committed to being a writer, I took a chance and reached out to the editor of the Southern Baptist Convention’s (SBC) international news service, Baptist Press. God gave that cold call favor, we hit it off and I started writing regular articles for them. A couple of years into it, I spoke at an Understanding the Times Conference in Nashville, where the Baptist Press is...