America used to enforce its obscenity laws.

Now, obscenity is so prevalent, that enforcement would fill up country jails with violators.

But the public has the expectation that public schools won’t expose impressionable material to the students. A student would be disciplined for saying the “N-word”, or for not wearing a mask at school or for sharing their Christian faith while the school library contains genuinely filthy books.

Rep. Todd Russ, R-Cordell, wants a state law to protect children from inappropriate material in school and public libraries.

House Bill 3702 would require any Oklahoma school district, charter or virtual charter school, state agency, public library, or university that offers digital or online library database resources to students in kindergarten through twelfth grade to do so only if the vendor, person, or entity providing the resources verifies that they meet provisions of the new law.

“The protection of our children is of the utmost importance,” Russ said. “Unfortunately, even though we have current state laws that define inappropriate material, we are still finding examples of this in our public school classrooms and libraries throughout the state on a regular basis. We must do a better job of safeguarding young minds from obscene material.”

Under the proposed new law, public schools, agencies, libraries and universities would be required to have safety policies and technology protections in place for K-12 students.

The left wants books with profane language or with explicit sexual descriptions available to school children. The complicit liberal media cries “censorship’ or book burning when horrified parents read some of books their children have access to in school or a public library.

Kids are exposed to enough filth in our culture. They should be shielded at school and in public libraries.