In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a new city ordinance targeting public homosexuality is hitting libraries. "When in History have the ones banning books been the good guys," says local activist.

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In Murfreesboro, Tennessee, a new city ordinance targeting public homosexuality is hitting libraries. “When in History have the ones banning books been the good guys,” says local activist.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    5·
    11 months ago

    But we must make sacrifices.

    As I recall, the Scopes trial was exactly one of these. An issue brought to challenge a law. Wait, found it:

    The trial was deliberately staged in order to attract publicity to the small town of Dayton, Tennessee, where it was held. Scopes was unsure whether he had ever actually taught evolution, but he incriminated himself deliberately so the case could have a defendant.[2][3]

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_trial