Merrill Piepkorn on Families & Children

Attract young people by avoiding "culture war" issues

Armstrong said he would want to see metrics on whether those types of bills are keeping people away from the state. He also said he thinks people should need to show proof of age to enter a pornographic website. "I'm very less worried about what books my kids see in a library as to what they can get on their phone," said Armstrong, referring to book ban bills that were discussed in the past session. Armstrong said he gets frustrated when people say "culture war issues" with a negative connotation. "I've talked to a lot of people over the course of the last six months in North Dakota and those issues are really, really important to people."

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