To advocate the passage of a law banning book “bans,” Maryland Delegate Dana Jones engaged in a series of logical fallacies. To a certain type of politician (i.e., a Democratic one), book banning issues are alluring. The party that now likes to brand free speech as “hate speech” and “disinformation” has found a First Amendment cause it’s still willing to champion: ensuring that children can browse and check out sexually explicit materials in their libraries. 

Well, that might not be a free speech issue, but that kind of reasoning hasn’t stopped the Democrats before. Before Maryland passed its “Freedom to Read” act last week, Jones argued that the legislation was necessary to keep good materials from being pulled from libraries.