Councilmembers recently added a proposed resolution to the agenda prohibiting the city...
Amanda Darrow, director of youth, family and education programs at the Utah Pride Center, poses with books that have been the subject of complaints from parents in Salt Lake City on Dec. 16, 2021. The League City council is set to consider a resolution calling for new rules surrounding— a controversial item that has led to a last-minute wording change and a heated culture war debate on social media.
A swath of residents took to social media in the days before the council meeting to voice opposition, saying it was both unnecessary and discriminatory against the LGBTQ community. “This makes it where my family doesn’t feel welcome in the public library in the town where I grew up,” she said. “People should be able to see their own families reflected in print.”“Only two book challenges have been made in the last few years and the current review process handled them accordingly," League City resident Shawn Byars said.
The original version of the resolution on the official council agenda as of midday Monday was not the final version, Hicks said. That version, which circulated on Facebook, proposed an auditor to review the books and send the report of “noncompliant materials” to city council, which could then vote for the city manager to restrict minors’ access to the books or “to remove the materials from circulation altogether.
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