At a packed League City council chambers Tuesday, only 10 of 63 speakers supported a proposition to rewrite the criteria on which materials are allowed for children's books in the city library. But the council still voted 4-3 to support the resolution.
on which materials are allowed in the city library for children's books.
One after the other, residents of various backgrounds and ages spoke against the proposal, which would prohibit the city from spending tax dollars to materials targeted to children under 18 that"contain obscenity." "When you tell groups of people - whether they are survivors of rape, or pedophilia or whatever category they fall into - that literary about them is not welcome we're essentially telling them they are not welcome in the library," Garcia said before the meeting."When we start to exclude literature about certain groups of people, we are telling those people that their voices and experiences don't matter.
With this proposed resolution, said David Baca, League City council has waded into the cultural war over censorship. The resolution was revised from its original version, which proposed an auditor review books and determine which were “non-compliant materials” and send a report to city council, which could then vote for the city manager to restrict access to the books or “to remove the materials from circulation altogether.”
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