"Freedom to Read" is a Fagazi 🤌
How Laws Promoting Unrestricted Library Access Undermine Parental Rights and Community Standards
“The left doesn’t want free speech if it means letting ideas they dislike compete in the marketplace. They want control over what’s said and taught.”
–Thomas Sowell
I urge you to take the time to read this post all the way through. There is a critical piece of legislation that is being presented to state legislators throughout our Nation, which without context, sounds like a reasonable bill. It even had a Delaware pastor duped.
Here is a video titled “Harriet Beecher Stowe and Censorship” to help illustrates that point:
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The “Freedom to Read” bill
It's a fugazi! 🤌
No state is immune to the insidious framework of this bill - which aims to strip local control away from parents & their local school boards, placing control into the hands of an unelected, unaccountable board. (Provisions would shield them from federal & state obscenity laws)
“The Bible doesn’t hold significant meaning for me, and given everything that has occurred in the last couple of years, the banned books, they do mean something to me at this point.”1
-Karen Smith; Central Bucks School Board President
Other states have already signed egregiously restrictive & similarly deceptive bills into law.
*Some states, like Michigan, have proposed similar legislation (e.g., the "Michigan Freedom to Read Act"), but as of June 4, 2025, it has not been passed, according to the Michigan Library Association. Rhode Island and Vermont were considered, but research indicates their proposed acts (e.g., Rhode Island SB238) are still under consideration, with no confirmation of passage by the current date. North Dakota and Georgia were mentioned in X posts, but without official legislative confirmation, they are excluded from the list.
This “Freedom to Read" template is being shopped around to every state in our Nation, including Florida!2
Delaware's HB119
Delaware's “Freedom to Read” act, House Bill 119 (HB119)3 passed out of committee on 5/22 with 27 YES votes, 18 NO votes, & 4 representatives absent. View vote roll call4
Amendments for oversight & accountability were defeated during that committee.
… a mechanism for “local education agencies” (i.e., school districts, vocational-technical schools, and charter schools) to consider objections to library materials. It also includes an appeals process conducted by local elected school officials to review these decisions. These officials are answerable to the citizens of the districts they serve…
This amendment seeks to include subsection (4) in Titles 14 and 29 cited in this bill, to clarify that the bill is not intended to restrict the removal of age-inappropriate, obscene, or pornographic material as defined under existing state and federal law.
I find Amendment HA5 to be truly disturbing, as this text was stricken from the bill, meaning it was in the original language - then removed!
This reminds me of Red Clay school district's “Transgender” policy, where in the dead of night during a short holiday school week, the board secretly met with Trans-Queer activists groups and had stricken the verbiage of “shall notify parents" from their policy!!
This amendment would make the following changes to House Bill 119: 1. Require school library materials under review to be briefly removed from student access during the review process. School staff would continue to have access during the review period. The review would be required to be completed within 30 days of the initial receipt of the objection. 2. Limit the review of any specific school library material by requiring a one-year period between the end of the review process and the filing of a new objection. This change would prevent bad actors from seeking to keep targeted material out of circulation by filing repeated challenges. 3. Expand those with standing to file an objection to school library material to include school district residents. The current language of the bill would exclude potential objections of most school district residents and taxpayers. This aspect of the amendment seeks to correct this inadvertent oversight by including these stakeholders.
Require the brief removal of public library materials under review during the review process. 2. Expand those with standing to file an objection to library material to include the taxpayers of library districts. Kent County residents pay to use libraries in certain incorporated areas, but may not be residents of these municipalities. The current language of the bill would exclude potential objections of these stakeholders. This aspect of the amendment seeks to correct this inadvertent oversight. Kent County is the only county with this hybrid financing arrangement. 3. Allow an individual to file up to five objections at one time. This change would be more efficient, preventing the need to file and review similar objections to related material in a serial fashion. 4. Limit the review of any material by requiring a one-year period between the end of the review process and the filing of a new objection. This change would prevent bad actors from seeking to keep targeted material out of circulation by filing repeated challenges. 5. Limit the review period to no longer than 30 days after the initial receipt of the objection.
In keeping with Delaware bill-drafting standards, in subsections (2) and (3), this amendment seeks to replace the term "should" with the term "may". It also clarifies that nothing in this section is intended to override or negate any provision of state law relating to material that is in violation of Title 11, Chapter 5, Subchapter 7, Subpart C.
Under the bill, individuals could file no more than one challenge at a time. Materials under review would be required to remain in circulation. Library employees and contractors would be generally protected for appropriately maintaining collections.
A removal decision could be appealed, but the bill explicitly gives the state librarian—an appointed position in Delaware—the final say on the matter.
🚨🚨🚨This bill has since passed out of the Senate on 6/18, and voted out of Senate chambers on 6/30, awaiting the Governor’s signature.
Lead sponsor of the bill, State Rep. Krista Griffith (D-Fairfax), made comments during the House action that seemed to concede that the bill’s intent was to disengage libraries from the public influence, placing that authority in the hands of people who are “more qualified for the responsibility.”
“It’s an important protection of our libraries,” Rep. Griffith said of the bill. “What it does is it entrusts the experts with the collection and curation of the libraries. Those who have the master’s degrees in library science, who know how to collect books and how to remove books. You can hear [state librarian] Dr. Norman talk about when she goes into libraries, the titles she is able to find that should have been removed decades ago, from the 1950s, 40s, 30s, 20s, that should no longer be on the shelf. She and her other colleagues are curating that library, making sure that it is up to date, making sure they are following the principles and protocols that they have in place to make sure that library material is correct.”A Parent's Plea of Public Opposition to the “Freedom to Read" act
Partially speed-read at the Senate hearing when public comment was shortened to only one minute:
Good evening, honorable Senators and Delawareans. As a parent of a school-age child in Delaware, I urge you, as Democrats who champion local control and child safety, to vote against House Bill 119, misleadingly named the “Freedom to Read” Act.
HB119 undermines community governance by stripping elected school boards of final authority over library materials, handing appeals to an unelected Review Committee. Worse, it requires schools to keep challenged materials available during review, with no exemption for obscene content. House Amendment No. 5 would have allowed removing age-inappropriate, obscene, or pornographic material under state and federal law, including Delaware’s §1365 on harmful content. Shockingly, this safeguard was stricken in the House, exposing the bill’s troubling intent to protect explicit materials over our children’s well-being.
As a parent, I support diverse ideas, but not graphic content in our schools. Better Nate Than Ever, in Appoquinimink’s Oliver B. Loss Elementary, uses terms like “fag,” “boobs,” and “stripper,” with references to drugs and suicide. This Book Is Gay, accessible via Delaware state-funded SORA catalog in Caesar Rodney School District, promotes websites for sexual meetups. The Kite Runner, in Red Clay’s Richardson Park Elementary, depicts graphic sexual violence, profanity and gore. “I knew your mother… I took her from behind by that creek.” These excerpts, too graphic for this hearing, can be provided privately. Such content has no place in Delaware libraries.
HB119’s supporters claim it protects “banned books,” but this is deception. “Banned books” displays feature controversial titles, but never Uncle Tom’s Cabin, Harriet Beecher Stowe’s abolitionist classic, historically banned for challenging slavery. These displays aren’t about censorship—they promote certain narratives while ignoring true literary history. If a book is available to borrow or buy, it’s not banned; it’s restricted to protect our children.
HB119 betrays parents by sidelining our voices and shielding inappropriate materials. Reject HB119, uphold local control, and protect our children’s innocence. Thank you.
Meet Sora - Delaware’s online library catalog, with minimal oversight!
Every Public School Student Now Has Digital Access To Books6
June 28, 2021 | Delaware.gov
A Coordinated Campaign to Force Obscenity
These Marx aligned Librarians wish to promote anti-American, anti-family, sexually deviant literature to young, impressionable students. They speak in euphemisms preying upon teachers, parents, students, & politicians emotions & ignorance. Thankfully, you 🫵 hold the antidote - knowledge!
Librarians, teachers and others plan day of action to fight book bans and preserve history7
Across the country, librarians, teachers, bookstore owners, civil rights activists and others plan to hold as many as 100 events June 7 as part of Teach Truth Day of Action. The national campaign aims to support the teaching of unvarnished history and to encourage people to read more, including banned books.
It's highly unlikely any of these “BaNnEd BoOk" activists will recommend reading “Uncle Tom's Cabin", the poster child of Banned Books.
In fact, when a bookstore in the south carried “Uncle Tom's Cabin”, it wasn't on a display where you can purchase it. It was usually found in the pile of burnt rubble after the democrat KKK burned it down!! 🔥
I have yet to see Harriet Beecher Stowe’s historic ant-slavery, abolitionist view spreading book on any “BaNnEd BoOk" display, but I have seen innocuous books such as “Hop on Pop" & '“A Light in the Attic” next to abhorrent books which speak of pedophelia,8 graphic scenes of rape,9 & instruct the reader of a multitude of sexual acts, up to & including how to use online hookup sites for “coffee, dinner or sometimes plain, old- fashioned sex.”.10 Mind you, some of these books mentioned are available in Delaware elementary schools!11
A recent Supreme Court victory deals a major blow to trans-queer programming through storybooks! A case brought to the court by a coalition of Maryland Muslim, Jewish & Christian parents. 🤝
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🗽Freedom is where true Unity lies!
Watch the video above as the host reads from the books cited in the Mahmoud v. Taylor lawsuit.
The case, Mahmoud v. Taylor, was brought by a diverse group of religious parents – including Muslims, Jews and Christians, who objected to Montgomery County Public Schools’ decision to force children as young as 3 to engage with LGBT books in its curriculum. The books included terms such as “drag queen,” “queer farmers,” “intersex flag” and “pride puppy,” and discussed “gender-neutral pronouns” such as ze/zir and ey/em.
Supreme Court sides with parents who want to opt kids out of LGBT school books12
The Marxist Underbelly of the American Library Association
Everything you have read above has been a carefully planned & coordinate assault on the family & American values. At the core of the “Freedom to Read" act, and the infusion of this abhorrent material pouring into our libraries is the American Library Association (ALA).13
“By electing a declared Marxist as their President, the ALA has not only turned its back on families, parental rights, and American values — it has turned its back on America itself.”
-Elsie Arntzen, Montana Superintendent of Public Instruction
Outspoken critic of critical theory, author, and
founder James Lindsay has an excellent podcast episode titled “The American Library Association is Queering the Catalog” you must listen to if you are to fully understand the insidious, Marxist influence of the ALA!The American Library Association (ALA) is a fully captured institution headed by a Queer Marxist organizer named Emily Drabinski. That means it is time to do what we should have done a long time ago: break away from the American Library Association. The state of Montana has already done this at the state level, and other states should follow. Some already are. Local municipalities and districts, including school districts, should do so as well, as soon as possible. In this episode of the New Discourses Podcast, host James Lindsay makes it more clear why. He takes you through an academic paper by Drabinski titled "Queering the Catalog" from 2013, showing you exactly how Drabinski intends to use her American Library Association to make libraries sites of Queer Marxist grooming. Join him and start pushing everywhere for a breakup from the American Library Association.14
Note: Emily Drabinski's reign has come to an end, ushering in a new era of indoctrination, swearing in ALA's newest “non-binary" they/them president .
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Legislators In Four More States Prepare To Ditch American Library Association15
July 21, 2023 | The Federalist
Thankfully, alternatives to the (un)American Library Association do exist.
Dan Kleinman, a man who has spent decades exposing teachers & librarians that intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly expose children to harmful content has founded the World Library Association, a nationwide library association and competitor to the ALA.
New National Association Launched To Compete With American Library Association16
July 24, 2023 | Daily Caller
Dan has been under legal attack by the ALA. Please help if you're able to.
✰ My Proclamation to Parents ✰
Parents, now is the time to rise with courage and conviction to defend the values that shape our children’s future. Stand firm in demanding integrity from our institutions, and fearlessly engage in open, value-driven conversations about what truly belongs in school libraries. Shatter the stigma of “banned books,” a phrase twisted by insidious Marxist rhetoric to silence dissent. Once we cut through this distortion, free thought will triumph, and together, we’ll reclaim the soul of education for our children. Let’s act boldly—our values, our kids, and our future depend on it.
eg Oryx & Crake, Lawn Boy
eg Lucky, All Boys are Blue
