Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Is Your Public Library Pushing an Agenda Contrary to the Local Citizen’s Convictions?


Residents of a Texas city are waiting to see if the local public library truly listened to their concerns regarding the promotion of the homosexual agenda.

After parents discovered that the public library in Temple, TX had set up a pro-LGBTQ lifestyle display in the children’s section, local resident – Joe Goodson of Concerned Christian Citizens (CCC) – met with library officials.  He posed that if they were going to promote that lifestyle, then they should also have a display of books that might help individuals leave that lifestyle behind.

At the quarterly board meeting of CCC, 40-50 residents showed up, and 80% of them delivered a message: “That is a political agenda that doesn’t apply to our town, and we really don’t want you to do this again,” Goodson reports.

Library officials say the program is one promoted by the American Library Association (ALA), which is known to be extremely liberal and fails to consider the beliefs of people whom the libraries serve.

So CCC is asking for the local public library to reconsider.  “They are rewriting their policy, or perhaps even just writing their policy now, and we really believe that could go either way,” Goodson told OneNewsNow.  “What we want when it comes to books in a library – that’s one thing.  But when it comes to taking a non-neutral advocacy position … they need to stand back from our children.”

Concerned residents of Temple, TX appear to have the library officials’ attention and have made it clear that they will not tolerate the promotion of an immoral lifestyle that does not reflect the view of most of the town’s residents.

In light of this evidence of the ALA influence on local public libraries, perhaps you ought to visit your own community library and see what (if any) non-biblical worldview is being promoted in recommended reading or display.

Rev. Dr. Kenneth L. Beale, Jr.
Chaplain (Colonel-Ret), U.S. Army
Pastor, Ft. Snelling Memorial Chapel

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