In the small town of Monroeville, Pennsylvania, a city council member accused staff at the public library of grooming kids with a Pride Month display in the children’s section, which librarians titled “Love is Love.”
The councilman may have broken the law in his crusade to have it removed.
On June 19, council member Bill Krut reposted a photo from the Monroeville Library’s Facebook page, showing the books on display, including “I Am Perfectly Designed” by Karamo Brown, “The GayBCs” by M.L. Webb, and “Mama and Mommy and Me in the Middle” by Nina LeCour.
“I don’t care what adults do [sic], but the books were right there in front of a play mat for children, and for them to say they’re not trying to influence children — then why are they there?”
Well they are to influence children. Teaching them the real world should be the library’s job, and the real world has families with two daddies, two mommies, or even in the case of one of my friends, two trans mommies and a cis mommy. Educating children influences their worldview in the same way that withholding or miseducating children does too.
So if you don’t want to influence children, then perhaps you should seek to ban religious material from being given to children. In fact, unlike the books on display, there’s plenty of examples of sexual assault, slavery, murder, and so on in the bible. Let’s restrict that book first so that only adults may read it. Then maybe we can talk about the books where Johnny has two dads and a half-sister.
