Citizens in a town in Michigan voted against a millage that would have funded a local library after it displayed LGBT literature.
A group called Jamestown Conservatives organized the effort to get the Patmos Library defunded, taking issue with books such asbeing promoted by the library and accusing the library of grooming children through the books.
Officials say that, due to the lack of funding, the library is in danger of closing unless it can get another millage passed to help with money. “I wasn’t expecting anything like this. The library is the center of the community. For individuals to be short-sighted to close that down over opposing LGBTQ is very disappointing,” Walton
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