Tue Jun 20, 2023 – 12:21 pm EDT
FRONT ROYAL, Virginia (LifeSiteNews) – A group of Virginia parents are rejoicing after their campaign to remove porn aimed at children from their local library led to a suspension of most of the service’s annual county funding.
The Warren County Board of Supervisors withheld partial budget funding to Front Royal’s Samuel Public Library in a 4-1 vote on the evening of Tuesday June 13. This occurred a week after 250 local parents and the Clean Up Samuels Library group came to the five-member board’s public budget meeting to denounce the library’s collection of children’s books featuring pornographic content.
The board approved a “Version 2” resolution of the budget, motioned by supervisor Jay Butler, which appropriated only 25% of the original $1,024,000 library funding. The limited funds go toward only continuing operations. The rest of the budget was withheld until September while a deal is negotiated between the board and the library.
“The details of the board’s deal with the library are as of yet not entirely clear and should become more clear over the upcoming weeks and months,” the Clean Up Samuels group said in a press release
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