The Nebraska State Board of Education said no to a rule change that would ban pornographic and sexually explicit books and materials from all school libraries.
Debates over LGBTQ issues and gender identity have made Protect Nebraska Children — started last year by a handful of parents and grandparents — into a conservative force.
Jason Martinez, a nurse anesthetist in Nebraska, has work in two hours. It is 4 a.m. and Martinez is sifting through hundreds of pages of government documents he obtained through a public information request. His wife is worried about his sleep, that is until he starts reading aloud the messages, the snide remarks state bureaucrats and their activist allies made as they wrote a curriculum that would teach the couple's daughters, aged 13 and 15, about transgender hormone therapy and the merits of abortion.