James Finn
May 21, 2024

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Yup! I just read a story yesterday about a small library in Idaho that is restricting access to adults only.

Because of a new anti-LGBTQ library law, the library directors feel they can't risk lawsuits. They say they don't have enough staff or other resources to meet the law's requirements to review and ban books when they receive complaints.

So there you have it. Parents are complaining about what other parent's children are allowed to read, lawmakers pass laws intended to keep children from reading, and it often works.

In this case, by restricting children from the only public library in that rural county.

Somewhere, Ray Bradbury is saying, "I told you so."

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James Finn
James Finn

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James Finn is an LGBTQ columnist, a former Air Force intelligence analyst, an alumnus of Act Up NY, and an agented but unpublished novelist.

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