Leaders of more than a dozen conservative organizations are calling on states to abandon the American Library Association (ALA) over the institution’s leftward lurch under new leadership.
On Thursday, leaders from 13 conservative groups penned a letter addressed to “Those With the Responsibility to Act” demanding policymakers sever ties with the identity politics-obsessed library association.
“The American Library Association (ALA) has become an organization that is undermining our country’s Constitutional rights and attacking its moral foundation, especially under its current leadership,” the coalition wrote “on behalf of the millions of Americans that our groups represent.”
The letter was signed by executives from the State Freedom Caucus Network, the American Principles Project, and AMAC Action, among others.
In April last year, the ALA elected a self-professed “Marxist lesbian” as the association’s new president.
“I just cannot believe that a Marxist lesbian who believes that collective power is possible to build and can be wielded for a better world is the president-elect,” Emily Drabinski wrote in a social media post at the time. “I am so excited for what we will do together. Solidarity!”
The association responsible for coordinating programs at local libraries across the country has become increasingly aggressive in its far-left activism under Drabinski’s tenure. In April, The Daily Signal reported on a list of 13 books the association recommended teens and young adults pick up to radically express their “freedom to read.” The ALA declared these 13 books to be the most “challenged” in the current educational environment, blaming
