• A grassroots coalition of 250 Virginia parents and community members is protesting the presence of 34 “porn” books available to children in the public library in Fort Royal, Virginia.
• The Warren County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday approved a $1 million budget for the Samuels Public Library, with most of the funding determining how the library will deal with sexually explicit content made available to children. will be limited to
• “This is not literature, this is vulgar. This is the kind of graffiti you see in Pompeii where I visited,” a Warren County guardian said at a board meeting about books in the library. .

A town board in Virginia voted to freeze some funding for public libraries as parents protested the presence of sexually explicit content in the children’s section.

Warren County Board of Supervisors approved Samuels Public Library was given a $1 million budget on Tuesday, but 75% of the funding will be capped until September while board members negotiate with the library on its response to explicit sexual content for children. I plan to Efforts to remove content are based on theclean up samuels“It’s a grassroots coalition of about 250 parents and local residents who have identified 34 “pornographic” children’s books available at the library,” spokesman Thomas Hinnant told the Daily Caller News. told the foundation. (Related: Gov. Blue displays sexually explicit books while signing bill banning ‘no books’)

“It all started with an elderly woman. A grandmother was taking several grandchildren to ‘Samuel’s So-Called Public Library’ when her four-year-old grandson walked into the aisle next to her and said, I took out one of them, ‘these damned books,’ Hinnant told DCNF. “Actually, what he pulled out was beyond words. I noticed that there are a lot of propaganda works that contain pornography.”

Books available to children at Samuels Public Library, according to To clean up Samuels, usethis book is gaya book described as a “how-to” guide for the LGBTQ community offering tips on anal sex and handjobs, and “trick‘ is a story about five teenagers who become involved in prostitution. Other publications includetwo boys kissing“, the story of two boys breaking the kissing world record, and”felix ever after‘ is a story about transgender teens falling in love and contains sexually explicit scenes, with one referring to ‘hard-on’.

A Warren County parent told the Board of Supervisors on June 6 about This Book Is Gay, “This is not literature. This is vulgar.” “This is the kind of graffiti I found in Pompeii when I visited.”

Libraries can hold books, but not children, said board overseer Jay Butler. Said News after the WUSA 9 vote. The library board will vote on where books go and whether public libraries will introduce a new card that allows minors access to adult content with parental approval, the media reported. rice field.

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Opponents of removing content from the children’s section claim that Cleanup Samuels promotes censorship and “un-American” values. according to to the Daily News Record.

“Ms Samuels is currently under attack from those who seek to control ideas and information that are freely available to the public,” Warren County resident Jay North told the media outlet. “They want to remove books that go against their personal beliefs. These people exercise their right and freedom to choose what to believe, how to live and what to read.” Instead of doing so, we seek to deny others those rights.”

Hinnant told DCNF that Cleanup Samuels has called for the book to be removed entirely, but the group intends to compromise and move the book to the adult section. The coalition is also calling for the dismissal of public library staff and executive directors.

“We reject any notion that these people have credibility in this community. They are a total breach of public trust,” Hinnant told DCNF. “This is a serious problem, so we do not believe they will continue to hold positions of power. If libraries continue to hold these positions of power, they will not be trusted.”

Across the country, parents are protesting the sexually explicit content available to their children, whether in public libraries or classrooms. In November, members of Michigan’s Muslim community held placards that read, “Keep Dirty Books in the Closet,” in a revolt against the placement of pornographic books in the local school district. caused Catholic groups launched a campaign in June urging parents to oppose sexually explicit content in children’s sections of public libraries as part of Pride Month.

“I was trying to mobilize an army and bring together a lot of young people, conservative Christians and Catholics with families who had migrated to the area. [Republican Party]. It was very, very difficult. People are busy and have other things on their minds,” Warren County resident Thomas McFadden told DCNF. “What’s interesting is that every topic, every issue, every situation, it motivates people to get up off the couch and do something about it.

“Suddenly, I started seeing children’s books in the library. At least for conservative young people with families, I usually just walk past them and say, ‘Oh, they’re doing crazy things.’ They’re really on the front lines and they’re pushing it forward. [to be removed]’” McFadden told the DCNF.

The Samuels Public Library did not immediately respond to DCNF’s request for comment.

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