At a packed League City council chambers Tuesday night, residents made their voices heard about a proposed resolution that would rewrite the criteria on which materials are allowed in the city library for children's books.
on which materials are allowed in the city library for children's books.
Former educators, school psychologists, current and former members of the library's board of trustees told personal stories of how books enriched their lives, and in some cases, personal struggles, and spoke on the broader issues of censorship.
Opponents say the resolution, which has been revised three times since it was first made public, is an attempt to censor and leans heavily on materials that “contain obscenity,” a vague description some say is used to target LGBTQ-related and other perspectives. A handful of speakers spoke in favor of the proposal, citing and reading aloud passages from children's books they deemed"inappropriate" and pornographic."
A third version eliminated a sentence referring to the removal of the material"from circulation altogether" and replaced it with a suggestion to place the suspect materials in the adult section.
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