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Unfortunately the time's come where Governor
Abbott has just signed

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HB 900, a bill by Jared Patterson, which is a

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book banning bill.

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Again, I'm not exaggerating.

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I want to remind everyone that this
conversation happened between

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Patterson and a former school teacher.

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Is sex with a prostitute patently offensive to
you?

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Y yes.

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Yes.

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It is.

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Okay.

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So if if sex with a prostitute is sexual
conduct

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and patently offensive under your bill,
lonesome dove by Larry

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McMurch would be banned in school libraries
across Texas.

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I'm just saying if we're doing this so broadly
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where you're sweeping in lonesome dove, then
we need to

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tighten up the language.

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Well, and and I don't care if it's lonesome
dove

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or any other novel.

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Bill, it's up to us to tighten the bill to

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make sure that when vendors are looking, they
don't ban

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lonesome dove because that's crazy.

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They might need to ban lonesome dove, though.

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That's my point.

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I mean, I I think that's helpful to hear from

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you that that that would be the intended that
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be the consequence.

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If if it's sexually explicit, if it is, then
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should not be.

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Yeah, because I'm the one that wrote the bill.