A group of Michigan parents are currently winning in a fight to defund their local library over LGBTQ books. This is a huge answered prayer!
From CBN News. In a direct response to their local library’s acquiring and prominently displaying LGBTQ books and other materials, the citizens of Jamestown, Michigan, recently voted to defund the library.
The township’s Patmos Library will lose 84% of its annual $245,000 budget after more than 62% of voters just refused to approve an annual property tax millage renewal for 2023. A millage is a percentage tax on property at its assessed value. The current millage is set to expire at the end of this year.
There was never any question on what the vote was about, local resident Jesse Dillman told MLive.
“I never saw any opposition to the actual dollar amount or taxes,” said Dillman, who has started a campaign to fund the library. “It was 100% about the cultural issue of having LGBT material in the library.”
Parents and other concerned residents began a campaign to stop the millage proposal after the library featured LGBTQ books as part of a Pride display during June. One of the books on display was the sexually explicit Gender Queer: A Memoir, a graphic novel explaining what it means to be nonbinary and asexual, according to WZZM-TV.
The conservative citizens claim the book, along with a few other LGBTQ+ themed books, were “grooming children for sexual exploitation,” since they were easily available to kids.
The group asked the library staff to remove the books and the library’s board refused. So, the group mounted a campaign against the millage in order to stop funding the library with taxpayer money….
According to Bridge Michigan, the library board decided Monday night to ask voters for funding for the second time in November.
If the millage request is defeated again in November, the library will likely close sometime in 2023, the outlet reported….
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