Fri Oct 13, 2023 – 5:28 pm EDT
NAPLES, Florida (LifeSiteNews) – Another Florida county has cut ties with the American Library Association (ALA) over its radical leftist president and support of making sexually explicit and ideologically controversial books available to children, three months ahead of the relationship’s scheduled expiration.
Florida’s Voice reported that the Collier Board of County Commissioners voted unanimously Tuesday to terminate the Collier County Public Library system’s annual membership with the ALA, citing the public attention that has been drawn in recent weeks to the organization’s latest president, Emily Drabinski, who has said it is “really important to me” that she is a “Marxist lesbian,” and its stance on children’s access to sexual content.
One speaker to address the board, Jamie Merchant, brought up Drabinski’s association with the so-called Freedom to Read Foundation (FRF), which is associated with the ALA and identifies as one of its core purposes “[s]afeguarding libraries’ right to disseminate all materials contained in their collections.”
The FRF “celebrates sexually explicit LGBT books targeting children by pushing the narrative that efforts to keep them off school library shelves are a form of censorship that should be resisted,” Merchant said.
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