{"id":16987,"date":"2025-06-26T18:39:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:39:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16987\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T18:39:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T18:39:08","slug":"were-not-nazi-germany-protestors-call-on-ayotte-to-veto-book-ban-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/16987\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018We\u2019re not Nazi Germany\u201d: Protestors call on Ayotte to veto book ban bill."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A bill that would ban some books and materials available in New Hampshire schools drew more than 50 protestors to the door of Gov. Kelly Ayotte\u2019s office Thursday. They demanded she veto the legislation if it reaches her desk.<\/p>\n<p>Joanne Casino, of Concord, was holding a copy of Maya Angelou\u2019s \u201cI Know Why the Caged Bird Sings,\u201d a book has been banned in some states for its portrayal of childhood sexual abuse and racism. Casino said she\u2019s worried the bill headed to Ayotte could ban books in New Hampshire schools that address difficult topics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI do remember reading Huckleberry Finn to my daughter when she was in third grade, which has the big, bad N-word in it,\u201d Casino said. \u201cAnd we talked about it. And she had value from understanding what that word is and why we don&#8217;t use it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The legislation, <a href=\"https:\/\/gc.nh.gov\/bill_status\/pdf.aspx?id=14520&amp;q=billVersion\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" data-cms-ai=\"0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">House Bill 324<\/a>, would prohibit schools from having materials that depict nudity, sexual conduct, and other content that is \u201cobscene\u201d or intended to arouse sexual desire. The bill would also require schools to adopt a policy allowing parents to request materials be removed.<\/p>\n<p>Janet Kibbee, of Penacook, was holding Judy Blume\u2019s &#8220;Are You There God? It&#8217;s Me, Margaret,\u201d which has been challenged in some states for its discussion of puberty, menstruation and religion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI&#8217;m here because I just think we&#8217;re not Nazi Germany,\u201d she said. \u201cWe&#8217;re New Hampshire, and we should be allowed to read any book we want.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The bill has passed both chambers of the state Legislature. Ayotte\u2019s spokesperson did not respond when asked if the governor would sign the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A bill that would ban some books and materials available in New Hampshire schools drew more than 50&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":16988,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[16593,1022,171,16594,3060,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-16987","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-book-ban","9":"tag-books","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-gov-kelly-ayotte","12":"tag-schools","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114751128799838127","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16987"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16987\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}