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I don't know if he has the legal authority to do that, but I certainly understand where he is coming from. Who wants to see indoctrination literature like that in their libraries?
Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee is withholding $110,000 of funding from the Madison County Library System allegedly on the basis of his personal religious beliefs, with library officials stating that he has demanded that the system initiate a purge of LGBTQ+ books before his office releases the money.
While I COMPLETELY agree with the mayor's PERSONAL beliefs on the matter, the library is a PUBLIC place and it's PUBLIC funds aka ALL the citizens funds that go to it. It is up to librarians to put restrictions on certain books for certain ages and PARENTS do watch what their kids are checking out. I wouldn't want my library to censor what I could check out. If he doesn't want to read it then don't. There are THOUSANDS of books I have no interest in, in my library system so I just don't check them out! He is going too far and will lose this battle.
He is a fool and this kind of ideology is a reason why we see higher suicide rates among LGBT individuals.
One of my good friends, a Taiwanese American medical doctor, recently tried to take his own life. In his own words, despite his great medical and educational success, he was viewed as his parents' "greatest disappointment" (their own words).
In my own household, my mother has kicked LGBT students out of her home school and shunned my own bisexual sister, who also went through several dark moments as a result of how she was treated.
His is the kind of nonsense that I cannot and will not support. From where I stand, there is nothing wrong with pro-LGBT books (or anti-LGBT books for that matter) in a public library. We aren't Saudi Arabia or Iran. We shouldn't be censoring literature. Hopefully, books like this will help let LGBT individuals know that they aren't alone and that there is some hope for them.
If you don't like LGBT books, don't read them. If you're afraid of your children reading them (), provide better supervision of your kids.
I don't know if he has the legal authority to do that, but I certainly understand where he is coming from. Who wants to see indoctrination literature like that in their libraries?
I don't know if he has the legal authority to do that, but I certainly understand where he is coming from. Who wants to see indoctrination literature like that in their libraries?
I don't know if he has the legal authority to do that, but I certainly understand where he is coming from. Who wants to see indoctrination literature like that in their libraries?
He is a fool and this kind of ideology is a reason why we see higher suicide rates among LGBT individuals.
One of my good friends, a Taiwanese American medical doctor, recently tried to take his own life. In his own words, despite his great medical and educational success, he was viewed as his parents' "greatest disappointment" (their own words).
In my own household, my mother has kicked LGBT students out of her home school and shunned my own bisexual sister, who also went through several dark moments as a result of how she was treated.
His is the kind of nonsense that I cannot and will not support. From where I stand, there is nothing wrong with pro-LGBT books (or anti-LGBT books for that matter) in a public library. We aren't Saudi Arabia or Iran. We shouldn't be censoring literature. Hopefully, books like this will help let LGBT individuals know that they aren't alone and that there is some hope for them.
If you don't like LGBT books, don't read them. If you're afraid of your children reading them (), provide better supervision of your kids.
The left removes literature they don’t like so I’d tell him, have at it. If you don’t like Mark Twain don’t read it. The left are hypocrites.
While I COMPLETELY agree with the mayor's PERSONAL beliefs on the matter, the library is a PUBLIC place and it's PUBLIC funds aka ALL the citizens funds that go to it. It is up to librarians to put restrictions on certain books for certain ages and PARENTS do watch what their kids are checking out. I wouldn't want my library to censor what I could check out. If he doesn't want to read it then don't. There are THOUSANDS of books I have no interest in, in my library system so I just don't check them out! He is going too far and will lose this battle.
Same. People who ban books, podcasts, information, etc., are never on the right side of history.
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), provide better supervision of your kids.