People read books that have been banned while Llano County officials read the Declaration of Independence at a celebration.LLANO — The county judge and county attorney stood at the edge of a gazebo in front of the courthouse here Friday morning and welcomed several dozen people who had gathered for an Independence Day celebration.BOOK BAN DEEP DIVE:About half a dozen people sitting on folding chairs not far from the two government officials, however, were not there to celebrate.
Among them was Suzette Baker, a county branch librarian who was fired this spring after refusing to remove books at the request of her boss. The saga started, Baker said, when she spoke out against efforts to pull books off shelves, as was being demanded by a group of conservatives in the county of some 20,000 people who claimed they were pornographic and inappropriate.
against Cunningham, county commissioners and library officials over the book bans. The officials last summer began a campaign of “censorship and viewpoint discrimination” by removing and restricting various books, the suit states.
Burning pornography is not the same as burning books.
Good this country is clown shoes
There is a BIG difference between a SCHOOL library and a PUBLIC library. The latter, should never be told what books, magazines, newspapers etc. to provide. Expectation is/was, they carry the same non-fiction as B&N (and now Amazon more so)