Tuesday, April 26, 2022

Llano County Texas faces First Amendment censorship challenge after leaders removed books and fired a librarian - The Washington Post

The debate was triggered in the fall when a conservative activist in Llano, Bonnie Wallace, emailed to the county a list of 60 titles she found offensive and suggested "all the pastors to get involved in this. Perhaps they can organize a weekly prayer vigil on this specific issue. 
… May God protect our children from this FILTH," the suit alleges. Several of the books Wallace mentioned, including such adult works as "Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents," by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Isabel Wilkerson, and "They Called Themselves the K.K.K.: The Birth of an American Terrorist Group" by Susan Campbell Bartoletti, have disappeared from the library's collection.

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