The rights culture war has a new battleground and
it's Oklahoma and their target gay books.
What am I talking about?
There's a state senator named Rob Stand Ridge who introduced a new
bill in the Oklahoma Senate that will allow any parent to ban books and
it will actually pay them to do so.
So under Senate bill 1142, just one parent would have to object
to a book that includes discussions of quote sexual perversion.
Sex based classification, sexual identity or gender identity and
other related themes in order to begin the process of removal.
Upon receiving a written request to remove a book, a school district would
have 30 days to eliminate all copies of the material from circulation.
It takes its inspiration from the abortion bill that passed in Texas.
This is the one that's in a provision that here's more
information about it in a provision that appeared inspired by S.B.8 in Texas.
The law that deputize is any citizen and
entitles them to a financial award if they successfully sue someone for
aiding a pregnant person and obtaining abortion care.
Parents will be able to collect $10,000 a day for
as long as the book in question remains in the library.
I mean, come on, it's pretty amazing.
>> Yeah, so I have a lot to say about this.
So number one makes me want to move to Oklahoma, wait, what?
Well they said any parent and any sex based classification.
Okay, I object to all the material that has heterosexual couples in it.
Give me $10,000 for each book that you do not remove within,
what was it five days or something.
They're gonna have to remove every book from the library.
Otherwise I'm gonna get $10,000 per day per book.
I'm gonna be the richest man in Oklahoma, okay.
Or you meant discrimination just against gay people?
Or you didn't mean to get straight people?
All right, that's because you're a bigot and you're a terrible person.
And by the way, the people who suggest this, of course,
republicans in Oklahoma hate the country.
Now, that's a fact, guys.
Now, why is it a fact, if you say that you want gay people to be treated differently?
Even a mention of a gay person or trans person or anything like that,
you think is so horrible that it would corrupt the minds of your children.
They're so disgusting that even their mentioning their existence
would somehow harm your children.
Well then you obviously don't believe in equality.
But you're saying literally right there,
we do not want them treated the same by law.
We hate equality, we don't want it.
There's nothing more on American than that.
And for all the republicans who still pretend [COUGH] Gay Reuben.
And by the way, almost everyone else too, you'll see it on social media.
Republicans don't hate gay people.
Really, they've got a funny way of showing it.
The mere mention of them in a book leads to, I don't know if they're gonna
burn the book spread or they're just gonna toss them out or they're gonna rip them.
I don't know,
I mean we had a member right in just a couple of minutes ago saying that they're
98 year old grandmother says that Fox News reminds them of 1930s Germany.
She lived through it, right?
She saw it at the time and so and
here we are there back to throwing out books that they don't like, yep.
>> Let's make some money right now come with me on this journey through banning
books in Oklahoma.
Any book will do, let's start with a hungry, hungry caterpillar.
The very hungry caterpillar sounds hetero enough.
There's a very vaguely phallic shaped insect that's obsessed with holes.
>> [LAUGH] >> You can even
stick your finger through the hole, kids play along.
But wouldn't you know it?
That takes a crazy turn when boom, he turns into a butterfly which
is essentially a symbol of homosexuality band.
$10,000.
>> Well you got rainbows there.
Besides what what what happened to the caterpillar?
It transformed, yep it went from one identity to another identity, bang.
Okay that's how much republicans say gay people.
>> Let's keep going similar themes, ugly duckling thinks it was born a swan.
No you were born a duckling.
That's what it says on your birth certificate.
You will stay a duckling, Hansen Anderson band.
$20,000 Paddington bear, Paddington bear.
That's a bear cross dressing as a human >> [LAUGH]
band >> Band.
What are we? 30 K curious George,
what's he curious about his sexuality?
Get out of here George has already been taken to the police station band.
The places you'll go, Dr Seuss.
I don't know if this is a gay book but
that looks like a rainbow and some kind of distended penis anises on so
get him banned >> Banned.
What do we have the 50K?
>> 50 K don't even get me started on this next book.
>> All right [LAUGH] 100 K.
>> And Winnie the pooh in the 100 acre wood.
How else do you get poo on your wood?
Okay, >> [LAUGH]
>> Band
>> Wrong
>> Band.
The only one left is this, the only one left is if you give a mouse a cookie,
this is a completely unabashed attempt to point out how terribly anti
progressive this book is.
If you give a mouse a cookie, here's a the only conservative book on the list I
could find quote from the reads a blog post about the best children's book.
A mouse asked a young boy for a cookie but
when he gets that cookie he then needs a glass of milk then a straw and so on.
It's never too early to teach your kids about the slippery slope and
that's why you shouldn't feed poor people.
I mean mice, >> They had the mice and overalls.
There's just the worst.
>> There's a sequel called If you give a moose a muffin.
It's the same thing.
>> Okay, right wing I don't need you to be right.
I just need you to admit you don't like your quality and
you don't like education and you want to get rid of anything that doesn't
conform to your religion, which is exactly what the taliban says by the way.
That's a good taliban test.
That's the litmus test for any law, right?
Would the taliban like it?
They would love this.
Lost everything right now, there's somebody in Kandahar going,
why didn't we think of that?
>> It's crazy. He also has a book that will this is
the last thing I'll mention.
SB 1141 from the same state senator which would prohibit colleges and
universities in Oklahoma from forcing students to enroll in any sex education,
gender equality or racial equality courses, exceptions would only be made if
one of those courses as part of the students core curriculum.
It's like, how often does that happen where they're like, come here and
get in this sex education course.
>> Yeah.
If you're a gay person, any part of the LGBTQ community voting for
a Republican and you think, that's okay,
I don't live in Oklahoma when they came for LGBTQ people in Oklahoma.
I didn't live in Oklahoma.
I would say, see how that works out for you, but
I don't want to see how that works out for any of us.
Republicans hate you.
I know you want your tax cuts and I know that you're some folks in that log
cabin Republican community are so greedy that they would still say,
you're gonna discriminate against some of us.
I'm rich enough, it won't affect me.
You're really, you're the worst of the worst.