A Republican member of the Utah state legislature is arguing for a return to the pre-1973 standard for determining what speech or expression is “obscene” and therefore not protected by the First Amendment.
Several Texas Republican politicians who have been campaigning against supposed “pornography” in classrooms — including Governor Greg Abbott — were asked by the Houston Chronicle to define the term, but most of them either refused to reply or provided erroneous definitions, conflating the term with "obscenity."