Did you know that, thanks to the work of interested activists and elected Representatives, New Hampshire stopped paying dues to the American Library Association (ALA) last year? It’s been nearly 18 months since tax dollars were sent to the extremists in the ALA. But Chris Sununu’s nominee for State Librarian, Melinda Atwood, would likely renew funding for this radical organization, probably on day one.
As Stephen Scaer reminded us yesterday, Atwood is an ALA booster and advocate for sexualizing children via public libraries. ‘Mindy” is also a partisan hypocrite. While she claims to oppose book banning, she appears comfortable with the ALA or any other library banning books that challenge the ALA’s partisan activism.
The ALA’s slides singled out Abigail Shrier’s “Irreversible Damage: The Transgender Craze Seducing Our Daughters” as a book that doesn’t belong on their shelves.
I’m no librarian, but that’s a book. If it doesn’t belong on the shelf, that’s worse than what you refer to as banning. Parents aren’t saying no one should have access to the sexually explicit content you defend; they are saying it doesn’t belong where young kids can get at it. However, the ALA’s policy is any person, any book, and any age. I think that’s in the library Bill of Rights. If Abagail Shrier’s book is a book, and it is, it should be available to any person at any age (ALA rules).
It is not.
How many other books are not “banned” by the ALA but inaccessible in public libraries? Is that how you intend to lead New Hampshire’s libraries? With the partisan bans you claim to oppose while funding the ALA by paying it tribute with our money?
The ALA is not independent or non-partisan. It is a political action organization that operates on tax dollars, and half a dozen states have already used the law to prevent tax dollars from supporting their partisan action.
The ALA is increasingly anti-parent and anti-child, and Atwood, as an advocate, is the wrong choice for a State Librarian.
Please contact your Executive Councilor before Wednesday, Dec 4th, and ask them to vote no on the Atwood nomination.
