Texas state education leaders voted 13-1 on Wednesday to keep “sexually explicit” books out of school libraries.
According to the Dallas Morning News, the Texas Board of Education approved guidelines requiring school libraries to implement policies prohibiting inappropriate books. The rule requires local libraries to recognize parents as the “primary decision makers regarding their student’s access to library material” and bar the “possession, acquisition, and purchase of harmful material” such as “sexually explicit” content.
“It was a work of deep value and importance to bring the library standards to fruition,” said Audrey Young, a member of the Texas Board of Education. “In Texas, parents have been identifying this issue to schools without the necessary support of law.”
In August, the Texas State Library & Archives Commission (TSLAC) cut ties with the American Library Association (ALA) over the group’s aggressive far-left agenda. Republican State Rep. Brian Harrison called on his state’s Library and Archives Commission to join other states disassociating from the ALA in July over its “Marxist ideology.” In April last year, the ALA elected a self-professed “Marxist lesbian” as the association’s new president.
“The ALA works against parents by fighting to keep pornographic materials in public libraries under the guise of opposing ‘censorship,’” Harrison wrote this summer. “The ALA’s ‘Office for Intellectual Freedom,’ states that libraries can’t remove inappropriate books because ‘children and teens have the right to find the information they choose’ and ‘no one has the right to make rules restricting what other people use, or to
