Mon Jan 31, 2022 – 10:44 pm EST
RIDGELAND, Mississippi (LifeSiteNews) – A Mississippi mayor is refusing to distribute $110,000 of taxpayer funding to libraries in his county over LGBT books targeting children that are sparking outrage among residents.
Ridgeland Mayor Gene McGee told local news that multiple citizens have recently complained to his office about sexualized, pro-LGBT content in local libraries and said he’s demanding that libraries remove the books before receiving any additional public money.
“I have had many complaints from citizens about the display of certain books at the library. In my capacity as mayor, I simply believe the books are inappropriate for children,” the Jackson-area mayor said in a statement to WAPT. “There is a minimum, sexual connotations are not appropriate for children when they enter the library.”
According to Tonja Johnson, executive director of the Madison County Library System, titles that McGee objected to included books for young children designed to normalize disordered gender identities and sexual orientations.
“Funding for this year was being withheld until we removed what he called ‘homosexual material’ from the library,” Johnson told WAPT.
“His reasoning that he gave was that, as a Christian, he could not
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