{"id":1979256,"date":"2023-07-21T07:36:01","date_gmt":"2023-07-21T11:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legislators-in-four-more-states-prepare-to-ditch-american-library-association\/"},"modified":"2023-07-21T07:37:06","modified_gmt":"2023-07-21T11:37:06","slug":"legislators-in-four-more-states-prepare-to-ditch-american-library-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legislators-in-four-more-states-prepare-to-ditch-american-library-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Four more states&#8217; lawmakers ready to abandon American Library Association."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Flegislators-in-four-more-states-prepare-to-ditch-american-library-association%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1979256&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<figure>\n      <\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Conservative\u200c lawmakers in GOP state legislatures across \u2062the country have ignited a movement\u200b to disassociate \u200blocal libraries from the American Library Association (ALA).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Thursday, three more chapters of\u200c conservative state Freedom Caucuses, including <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AZFreedomCaucus\/status\/1682089597226852377?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Arizona<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SCFreedomCaucus\/status\/1682101155290296320?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">South Carolina<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PAFreedomCaucus\/status\/1682110253347815424?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Pennsylvania<\/a>, endorsed the Montana State Library\u200c Commission\u2019s move this month\u2064 to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/07\/14\/montana-state-library-commission-cuts-ties-with-american-library-association-over-new-marxist-lesbian-president\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">sever ties<\/a> with the ALA\u2063 and\u200b encouraged their own \u2062libraries \u2064to do the same. Another\u2063 prominent conservative lawmaker\u2063 in Texas <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianeharrison\/status\/1682119344002572288?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> on his state\u2019s Library and\u200c Archives Commission to follow suit after the ALA elected an avowed Marxist \u2063as president.<\/p>\n<p>The ALA has come under fire from conservative lawmakers after the \u200cassociation\u2019s election of a far-left activist to lead the organization, which now <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/legislators-in-four-more-states-prepare-to-ditch-american-library-association\/\" title=\"Four more states' lawmakers ready to abandon American Library Association.\">defends \u200dsexually explicit material<\/a> being presented to children. Emily\u200c Drabinski,\u2062 the new president of \u2062the ALA, celebrated her\u2064 election as a \u201cMarxist lesbian who believes that collective power is\u200c possible to \u2062build and can be wielded\u2063 for a better world.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am so\u2062 excited for what we will do together,\u201d Drabinski <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20220424195119\/https:\/\/twitter.com\/edrabinski\/status\/1514305183429365767\">wrote<\/a> in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/why-this-average-american-is-voting-for-donald-trump\/\" title=\"Why This Average American Is Voting for Donald Trump\">social media post<\/a> last\u200c year. \u201cSolidarity!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>More \u2064than a dozen conservative lawmakers in the Idaho\u200c legislature <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2023\/07\/19\/idaho-republicans-urge-state-libraries-to-ditch-american-library-association-after-it-promoted-porn-to-kids\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">called<\/a> on the state\u2019s\u2063 library commission to part ways with the ALA\u200b on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe \u200bhave significant concerns about the election of Emily Drabinski, a self-described \u2018Marxist-lesbian,\u2019 as the \u2064next president of \u2064the ALA,\u201d lawmakers said\u200b in a statement. \u201cHer election raises issues \u200cabout libraries\u2019 involvement in exposing children to \u200bexplicit materials and injecting hard-left politics and sexuality\u200d into publicly funded libraries.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In April, The Daily \u200bSignal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailysignal.com\/2023\/04\/26\/library-group-blames-book-challenges-on-anti-lgbt-prejudice-ignores-porn-charges\/#:~:text=The%20ALA%20encourages%20readers%20to,claimed%20to%20be%20sexually%20explicit.%E2%80%9D\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">reported<\/a> a\u2063 list\u200c of 13 books \u200dthe \u2063association recommended teens \u200cand\u2062 young adults \u2062pick up \u200din a radical\u200c expression of \u201cfreedom to\u200b read.\u201d The ALA described the 13 books as the most \u201cchallenged\u201d in the current \u200beducational environment, blaming anti-LGBT prejudice. All the books on the list, however, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/law-firm-claims-wisconsin-school-district-violated-state-law-by-providing-students-with-sexually-explicit-books\/\" title=\"Law Firm Claims Wisconsin School District Violated State Law By Providing Students With \u2018Sexually Explicit\u2019 Books\">feature sexually explicit material<\/a>, \u2062some \u2064of\u200b which is pornographic.<\/p>\n<p>The four legislatures that began preparing \u2062to terminate their state\u2019s relationship with the ALA on Thursday joined lawmakers in Idaho, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/WYFreedomCaucus\/status\/1679248724202225669?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Wyoming<\/a>, \u2062 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FreedomCaucusGA\/status\/1681257517278699522?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Georgia<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.freedomcaucus.ms\/end-funding-to-the-american-library-association\/?fbclid=IwAR3ics4k4cebl6RgLcI34OxEXzmW5HxUbygnbhj-jwqhTR6pGON3zxeAEbI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Mississippi<\/a>. A \u2063total of nine states\u200b have now joined the movement, with Montana becoming the first state to make the separation official. More\u2062 are expected \u2063to announce in the\u2064 coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe join other state Freedom Caucuses and\u200c call \u2064on the [South Carolina] \u2063 Library Association to leave the NLA,\u201d wrote the South Carolina Freedom Caucus on Twitter. \u201cIt\u2019s time to stop using taxpayer money to fund Marxist organizations corrupting our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTexas should fight Marxist ideology, not \u2062subsidize it,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/brianeharrison\/status\/1682119344002572288?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> Texas Rep. Brian Harrison.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Tristan\u200c Justice is the western correspondent for \u2064The \u2063Federalist and the author of \u200bSocial \u2064Justice Redux, a conservative newsletter on culture, health, and wellness. He has also written for \u200cThe Washington Examiner and The\u2062 Daily Signal.\u2064 His work has \u2064also been\u2063 featured in Real Clear Politics and \u2063Fox News. Tristan graduated from \u2064George Washington University where he majored in political \u200bscience and\u200b minored in journalism. Follow him on Twitter at @JusticeTristan or contact him at Tristan@thefederalist.com. Sign up for Tristan&#8217;s email newsletter <a href=\"https:\/\/socialjusticeredux.substack.com\/about\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div data-image data-amount=\"5\">\n<h2>Popular<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalist.com\/#\"><\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conservative GOP lawmakers in multiple states are pushing to separate local libraries from the American Library Association (ALA). Arizona, South Carolina, and Pennsylvania&#8217;s conservative state Freedom Caucuses recently joined Montana in endorsing the move to cut ties with the ALA. 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