And so it begins, turning off the lights ..

@MarineBob makes you wonder what ww2 was all about...

@Convivial Sadly the nazis were the party of sexual perversions and if you think my uncles and father in law fought and were awarded bravery medals for their part in the fighting so public libraries can carry gay porn you are very mistaken.

What about the First Amendment? If it was a Leftist place banning traditional authors (as they do), would that be okay? No. No books should be banned from a public library. Don’t want to read it, then don’t. @MarineBob

My tax dollars pay for my library if you don't vote in the election you have no say on what the facility does or doesn't do @Carissimi

My tax $ pay for the schools. I don’t have children in school. I thought you believed in the 1st Amendment? You either believe or you don’t. If you want to pick and choose that’s no better than the lunatic Left. @MarineBob

@Carissimi local voters chose not to have a percentage of their property tax not to go to the library. Good they exercised their rights locally to say how their tax dollars will be spent

So then it would become a private library, and can go tell those anti 1st Amendment voters to go F themselves. Just don’t call yourself a conservative, in future. @MarineBob

@Carissimi it's very hard for a public building to become a private one

I was being facetious.

Banning Leftist books is no different than banning Conservative or traditional books.

So the library would not ban lgbt ... whatever the next 15 letters are ... and the voters voted to defund the library? If it’s on the ballot, it’s their right, I just think they are setting a bad precedent for the erosion of First Amendment Rights. @MarineBob

@Carissimi should the library spend taxpayers money promoting any organization or Holiday personally I say no

What about Christmas decorations or Halloween, or July 4th, should the library not celebrate these holidays? I don’t believe LGBT etc; etc; is a holiday. It’s an ideology, and therefore political, so the library needs to stay out of politics. @MarineBob

@Carissimi sorry not at taxpayers expense

@MarineBob Your 100% correct!

It’s not my fight. I’ll leave you to it. I’m a strict Constitutionalist. I’ll always defend the Constitution. @MarineBob

@Carissimi as we all should

You just don’t seem to support free speech. @MarineBob

@Carissimi So, in the future the libraries can ban books on all kinds of topics, from cooking, sports, business, history, religion, science, politics, home decorating, philosophy, watch making, chemistry, medicine, etc. and what would be left? Why not ban the paint on the walls and the roof on the building?

Stories like this make me wish that we would get hit by a 500 mile diameter asteroid going 25,000 mph and put the human species out of its ignorance forever. We are getting too stupid to exist another day.

I don’t support banning any books. @Diotrephes

@Carissimi [quote]I don’t support banning any books. @Diotrephes[/quote]

The control freaks are on a mission to dumb down the population. Today, it's one genre and tomorrow it will be another and soon they will all be gone. If people continue to tolerate it they will be left with nothing and be dumber than a rock.

@MarineBob You miss the point here entirely, Bob. You're not incorrect in what you say, but why do a handful of misguided, cowardly and prejudiced government officials get to dictate to the country their personal intentions? Where in any of the documentation establishing this nation does that exist?

Polls are clear. People are in mostly pro-choice.
People support LGBTQ rights.
People don't want guns on their streets.
People want the freedom to read a goddamned book in the Freest Nation in the World.

Yeah, tax dollars dictate, Bob. Some does the human conscience. I'd think you'd have picked up some empathy along the way. Guess it just applies to you and yours.

@Graylight

[quote]but why do a handful of misguided, cowardly and prejudiced government officials get to dictate to the country their personal intentions?[/quote]

That isn't what happened.

Voters turned down a renewal millage to fund it...62% of people who voted in the primary at the beginning of this month.

[quote]Polls are clear.
People are in mostly pro-choice.
People support LGBTQ rights.
People don't want guns on their streets.
People want the freedom to read a goddamned book in the Freest Nation in the World.[/quote]

You need a "mostly" in your third and fourth sentences.

In the fifth, people also want to send their children to the library and not have what they consider to be inappropriate teachings there.

You need to read up on what happened and look at the demographics and where it is located.

See
[i]https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown_Charter_Township,_Michigan[/i]

@SomeMichGuy That's what happened because of the mandates. If not for the horrible legislation, the action would not occur. Therefore, responsibility lays with those curtailing freedom and learning.

'Mostly' doesn't need apply to, as I'm referring to the cumulative opinion of the people on a subject. And those statements above are correct. A preponderance of citizens poll as wanting the things listed. This is not new and shocking information.

There are no inappropriate books in a library. Books are books. The meaning is imposed upon them by those looking at them with their own particular lens.

If you don't like a book, don't read it, don't let your child read it. But don't tell me what I, as an adult, educated US citizen may read. There are no "little steps" here. This is censorship and it's been deemed wrong for 270 years. Until recently.

@Graylight here the library board is elected by the registered voters of the community their tax base must be reapproved by the voters every five years, maybe they should have used some of the money to put in a separate room for books that some might consider inappropriate for all readers

@MarineBob Yes, Bob, they're supported with tax dollars in a great socialistic net. And that's why the taxpayers are the final word, not the government. Libraries are for the people; they're not government-approved display cases.

@MarineBob And the voters support LGBTQ.