Will public libraries be targeted next for book banning? Even the thought is reprehensible.
Mississippi mayor withholds library funds over LGBTQ books
RIDGELAND, Miss. — The director of a Mississippi library system says a mayor is withholding $110,000 from his city’s library because LGBTQ books are on the shelves.
Tonja Johnson, executive director of the Madison County Library System, told news outlets that Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee received citizen complaints about a handful of books that depicted members of the LGBTQ community.
“Funding for this year was being withheld until we removed what he called ‘homosexual material’ from the library,” Johnson told WAPT-TV. “His reasoning that he gave was that, as a Christian, he could not support that, and that he would not release funding until we remove the material.”
Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer”: "....those who seek to ban books are wrong no matter how dangerous books can be. Books are inseparable from ideas, and this is really what is at stake: the struggle over what a child, a reader and a society are allowed to think, to know and to question. A book can open doors and show the possibility of new experiences, even new identities and futures."
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Reblogged this on Ned Hamson's Second Line View of the News and commented:
Take him to court – he can’t do that.
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Many thanks!
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Nan, here is an interesting post by a minister named John Pavlovitz. He has one of the best blogs on religion and everyday life. Keith
https://johnpavlovitz.com/2022/01/29/if-christians-want-to-ban-dangerous-books-they-better-start-with-the-bible/
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so disgusting
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Certainly a sad reading on my country tis of thee…
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