[Warning Graphic content. ACTION ITEMS Below]
An army of angry, clueless librarians and library trustees convinced Ohio Governor Mike DeWine to veto a protective section of the Ohio Budget (HB 96). Both the Ohio House and Senate voted to direct public libraries to place material on sexual orientation and gender identity away from patrons under 18, but DeWine thought that was too “vague.”
The librarian whining and moaning was an outrageous misuse of their public positions, sending out emails to patrons demanding calls to DeWine to stop this “unworkable” measure. They all used the same irrelevant talking points. From Pickaway County, to Cleveland Public Library, to Upper Arlington, to Westerville, to Cuyahoga Falls, to Tipp City, to Medina, and more, they wailed about Censorship! Fear of lawsuits! Overly broad! We trust parents to make these decisions! We already have policies on this!
No, you don’t or we wouldn’t have young adolescents accessing material (pushed by unprincipled publishers) describing in graphic and vulgar detail anal sex, oral sex (sometimes with drawings), who removed what clothing, what bodily fluids were exchanged, and what parents were deceived to do all this, how despicable are the parents who don’t approve of homosexuality and gender “change,” and how repugnant are Christians and people of faith who object to these behaviors.
Also, some books convince small children they could be born in the wrong sex body, how harmless and always-successful gender “transition” treatments are, how girls can use chest binders to pretend they are boys (causing permanent harm to breast tissue), sex “work” as a respectable occupation for teens, and so on. And there’s also heterosexual sex obscenity (sometimes in the same books) which should also be addressed in any library that cares about the minds and hearts of teens.
Is it any wonder that DeWine is pushing mental health services and a suicide hotline number on every student ID? These library attitudes and his accommodation to retaining porn in libraries is likely causing a rise in mental health problems among Ohio’s youth.
Here’s what one mom wrote to the Cuyahoga library board of trustees:
“Do not use my email ever again for political purposes & stop the professional librarians (strangers) from pandering adult materials to youth. Mirror parents & adults who hold common decency standards for youth rather than benchmarking with those who do not.”
Yes, give us a break. Give me five grandmas in each community and they could clean up your libraries in one morning. It’s not “unworkable,” just “unwantable.”
So DeWine agreed to the veto, calling the directive "vague” and claiming that Ohio has laws that protect juveniles from obscenity anyway. Wait, Governor, NO WE DON”T, not if that obscenity is found in a library or school. Ohio Revised Code 2907.32, passed many years ago when we could (sort of) trust libraries and schools, holds them EXEMPT from liability about obscenity. So now that publishers and the depraved “LGBTQ” community know they can get away with this (in over 40 states, not just Ohio), they deploy the corrupt American Library Association to constantly scream “free speech!” while publishers emit novel after novel that are total trash.
Time for some new personnel at our Ohio libraries, people who do not use their position to advocate for child access to porn. That is essentially what they are doing, because the titles in question (and they know EXACTLY the ones they should remove, it’s hardly ‘unworkable’) are pretty much all explicit, because that’s what the 'LGBTQ' movement loves, even in front of kids.
This was not the only problem line item veto. DeWine also vetoed an expansion of Ed Choice (vouchers) for Ohio families. And he vetoed a provision to require local school board elections to designate candidates by party. This is so important because many people don’t know candidates are affiliated with the increasingly extreme Democratic party. Local voters deserve to have all the information.
Good news—there may be a veto override vote!
TAKE ACTION:
1. Call your Ohio House representative ( find your rep HERE ) the week of July 7 and urge him/her to vote YES to override this action by DeWine. We want libraries to restrict sexual orientation and gender identity materials to only those over 18. Also, we want Ed Choice to be expanded and we want school board elections to carry party affiliation.
2. Ask your Ohio House/Senate rep if he/she would be willing to sponsor a bill prohibiting Ohio libraries from political activity as described above.
3. Ask your Ohio House/Senate rep if he/she would be willing to sponsor a long-overdue bill to repeal the obscenity exemption (Ohio Revised Code 2907.32) for libraries and schools.
