{"id":2029127,"date":"2023-09-12T12:08:01","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/library-exodus-public-officials-are-right-to-leave-the-american-library-association\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T12:09:43","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T16:09:43","slug":"library-exodus-public-officials-are-right-to-leave-the-american-library-association","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/library-exodus-public-officials-are-right-to-leave-the-american-library-association\/","title":{"rendered":"Public officials are justified in leaving the American Library Association."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><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%2Flibrary-exodus-public-officials-are-right-to-leave-the-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=2029127&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--><h2>Are \u2063Public Libraries Being Used\u2063 to Promote Ideology?<\/h2>\n<p>Quick quiz: Do you think public libraries should promote socialism? Do you think\u200b they should <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/library-exodus-public-officials-are-right-to-leave-the-american-library-association\/\" title=\"Public officials are justified in leaving the American Library Association.\">host\u2062 drag queen story time<\/a> for children? And do\u200c you\u2063 think they should be allowed to discriminate \u200bagainst Christians? If you answered \u201cno\u201d to these questions, the Left-wing media likely thinks you\u2019re a fascist.<\/p>\n<p>The truth, of course, is a lot \u2064less sensational and a lot\u200b more straightforward. Simply put, progressive activists\u2063 are using \u200dpositions of influence and government resources to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/marxist-lesbian-president-of-american-library-association-doubles-down-on-agenda-for-a-better-world\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">push\u2064 their ideology<\/a> on the American people. This is especially \u2062apparent at\u200d the \u2064American Library Association (ALA), whose self-described \u201cMarxist\u201d president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtontimes.com\/news\/2023\/aug\/30\/american-library-association-faces-backlash-over-m\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wants<\/a> to turn libraries into spaces of \u201cqueerness \u2064and difference rather \u200cthan democracy and \u2064citizenship.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As normal and sane \u200bpeople have noticed this trend,\u200d they have begun to push back, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/library-book-ban-association-withdraw-7f5743a9e464433a745697f9111d7f6b\">resulting<\/a> in a slew of withdrawals\u200d from the ALA. This \u201cexodus\u201d\u2062 isn\u2019t about a \u201cconservative book ban,\u201d no matter what the Associated Press claims.\u200c This is \u2062about Americans not wanting themselves \u2014 or their \u2064children \u2014 to be subjected to Left-wing propaganda.<\/p>\n<p>Critic Dan Kleinman puts it well <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SexHarassed\">when he says<\/a> \u200cthe problem with the ALA is that it has \u201cchanged from an organization that helped communities and used common sense into one that just promotes \u200da view.\u201d\u2064 Similarly, Commissioner Diana\u200d Finegan of Florida\u2019s Citrus County <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicleonline.com\/news\/local\/county-cuts-funding-to-american-library-association\/article_d7211d47-7266-5a9b-b100-97808b237d68.html\">states<\/a>, \u201c[l]ibraries should be educating the \u2063public, not indoctrinating.\u201d She explains\u200d that the county removed \u2064the\u2064 ALA\u2019s annual\u200c fee from its budget because the government \u201cdoes not need to\u2062 give \u2026 tax\u200b dollars\u200b to any organization run by a Marxist.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>And there is little doubt that the ALA is using <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/study-taxpayer-funded-abortion-seekers-are-often-repeat-customers\/\" title=\"Study: Taxpayer-Funded Abortion Seekers Are Often Repeat Customers\">federal tax dollars<\/a> to do its dirty work. Earlier \u2064this year, the organization <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/kirk-cameron-american-library-association-cancel-storytime-event\">issued guidance<\/a> to prevent the Christian publishing company Brave Books from hosting events at public libraries. In response, Senators Mike Braun (R-IN), Kevin Cramer\u2063 (R-N.D.),\u200b and\u200c I sent a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rubio.senate.gov\/rubioalaletterreligiousdiscrimination\/\">letter<\/a> to the Institute\u2062 of Museum and Library Services demanding an investigation into the ALA\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/supreme-court-ruling-proves-once-again-that-religion-and-education-are-inseparable\/\" title=\"Supreme Court Ruling Proves Once Again That Religion And Education Are Inseparable\">blatant religious discrimination<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, scandals continue to flow from ALA leadership. On September \u20622, 2023, President Emily Drabinski <a href=\"https:\/\/karlyn.substack.com\/p\/exclusive-recording-american-library\">attended<\/a> a socialist presentation on \u201cfugitive pedagogy,\u201d or \u201chow to smuggle socialist ideas like Critical Race Theory into the classroom even when \u200bthe law outlaws\u2064 it.\u201d Afterward, Drabinski said that libraries \u201cneed \u2026 to be a site of socialist organizing.\u201d\u200d This is insane, even for a progressive organization.<\/p>\n<p>The\u200d ALA\u2019s defenders argue\u200d that\u2064 those who leave the organization threaten \u201cfree access to ideas.\u201d They also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicleonline.com\/news\/local\/it-is-wrong-it-is-so-wrong\/article_3a739647-2e12-55cf-a1c5-66c916267b1f.html#:~:text=County%20cuts%20funding%20to%20American,on%20LGBTQ%20materials%2C%20drag%20que%E2%80%A6\">call<\/a> those \u2064pushing back on the ALA\u200b \u201cNazis\u201d and warn \u201cthat\u2019s exactly how Hitler came to power.\u201d It\u2019s ironic, because the ALA is\u2062 the censor, and it\u2019s\u200c painfully obvious that the movement to abandon it is motivated by\u2064 a \u200cdesire for more freedom, not \u2063less.<\/p>\n<p>Americans shouldn\u2019t \u2064have toxic ideology pushed on them in\u200c libraries,\u2064 just as they\u2063 shouldn\u2019t have it pushed on them in schools. Unless the ALA apologizes for its appalling behavior \u2064and corrects its course immediately, withholding membership dues is probably the sanest thing public officials can do.<\/p>\n<p><em>Senator Marco Rubio represents the state of Florida and sits on the \u2062Senate Foreign Relations Committee.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>The \u200dviews expressed in this piece are those of the author and do not necessarily\u200b represent those\u200c of The Daily \u200cWire. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Quick quiz: Should public libraries promote socialism, host drag queen story time, and discriminate against Christians? If you answered &#8220;no,&#8221; the Left-wing media may label you a fascist. 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