lislemck writes “ The Advocate reports Montgomery County, Texas public libraries are facing protests by a veterans group, American Veterans in Domestic Defense, that wishes to to remove about 70 children’s books the group says contain explicit material.
I really have to reread The Perks of Being a Wallflower.”
We *wish* it were only round two
In reality, this is round three, or four, or five — heck, it just seems like a constant onslaught of nonsense around here, frankly. First it was the Republican Leadership Council in 2002, then beginning last year a group calling itself Library Patrons of Texas who have laid such a backlog on the library materials review committee that it will take them years to get dug out again, and now this.
However, lest you think that the majority of Montgomery County residents are this nuts, take a look at the many comments attached to the online version of this story from the local newspaper, The Courier. The comments are overwhelmingly either in support of the library or highly skeptical about the group sponsoring these protests.