Moms for Liberty read ‘porn’ hoping to ban books, as Seminole school board listens

Moms for Liberty, the conservative group founded in Florida and now a force in national politics, aimed to get books pulled from Seminole County Public Schools libraries by reading aloud at a school board meeting this week book passages they said amounted to “porn.”

The group’s Seminole chapter, following a playbook used successfully in recent weeks in Indian River and Pinellas counties, urged supporters to read “potty” words and the “worst of the worst,” with the hope the school board would cut them off.

A new state law signed by Gov. Ron DeSantis in May heightens scrutiny of school books and says if school boards prevent parents from reading aloud books that have been objected to, those books must be removed from the shelves.