“The idea of a library banning books based on a specific organization’s opinions is antithetical to the idea of our library being one of those spaces.”
A couple dozen people attended the Monday, Oct. 16, 2023, Fairhope Library Board meeting to discuss books that were challenged due to themes of sexuality and LGBTQ topics.Several dozen people attended a Fairhope Library Board meeting Monday afternoon after months of conflict over books with LGBTQ themes and their place in the library’s catalog.
Rev. Jenny Allen, a retired United Methodist minister, spoke in support of the library and “letting people be the parents of their children,” rather than relying on the library to make decisions on what its patrons read. Many of the people who attended that council meeting showed up at the library board on Monday, including Brian A. Dasinger, a local attorney and representative of the Faith Family Freedom Coalition of Baldwin County, a chapter of
Dasinger referenced Miller v. California, a 1973 Supreme Court case that established how obscenity is determined in state and federal law based on a triple pronged test, as a mechanism for the library to consider books. Tamara Dean, the library’s director, listed 33 books that are in the process of being reviewed. The location in the library is being reconsidered for some of those books, and some books are being challenged altogether, according to Andy Parvin, the board’s vice chairman.obtained a copy of the list of books submitted for review.
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