The bill will jail any librarian who hosts drag queen story hours or allows children to check out books featuring LGBTQ or explicitly sexual topics for up to a year.
a large rally at Missouri's state capitol on March 7 in protest of a bill proposed by a state representative who wants to jail librarians who choose to host drag queen story hours—or allow children to take lgbtq-themed books out of the library.
"That's where in a public space, our kids could be exposed to something that's age-inappropriate. That's what I'm trying to tackle," he said to theUnder the Parental Oversight of Public Libraries Act, books with"age-inappropriate sexual material" would be moved to an age-restricted area of the library, and no child would be able to check them out.
"The main thing that I've heard is that I want to ban books or ban content or censor content, and that's not the case. I just think that there's a line between what is open and available access for our children," Baker told KOAM-TV."If the adult wanted to, and said I'm okay with my child reading this or looking at this, then they could check that out, and have that available for their child.
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