Who cares about the state budget and the economy, much less the unemployment rate? At least, the Kansas Republican-controlled legislature has its priorities straight (no pun intended) on what truly is important for governance:
The Republican-dominated Kansas Senate voiced its approval Tuesday of a bill that would make it easier to prosecute teachers and school administrators who present lesson materials deemed to be “harmful.” […]
Senate Bill 56 would allow misdemeanor charges to be filed against teachers who present materials depicting “nudity, sexual conduct, sexual excitement, or sadomasochistic abuse” that the “average adult person” believes “lacks serious literary, scientific, educational, artistic or political value.” […]
“My first thought: Oh no! This again?” said Liesl Wright, an art teacher in Wichita, in an email. “I’d be in trouble. I was showing my high school art students charcoal drawings of nude people just today. I do it all the time. You know when the religious laws regarding art are more restrictive than the European Renaissance, you’ve gone too damn far!”
I think this would make it a crime to show the video on human reproduction I saw as a 7th grader in 1969. And thank goodness for that. Because I (and my fellow classmates) never would have learned about the evilness of sex outside of that one class. No way. Not a chance in H-E-Double-Toothpicks.