Tag: book bans

Learn about the alarming increase in library bans and the threat they pose to intellectual freedom and democracy.

Lately, the mothers group dominating media attention is Moms for Liberty, self-described “joyful warriors … stok[ing] the fires of liberty” with the slogan “We Don’t Co-Parent with the Government.”

Deborah Caldwell-Stone spoke to Whitworth audience about public libraries under siege and the threat to the First Amendment’s right to intellectual freedom, which is key to democracy.

Groups claiming to celebrate "liberty" are calling for book bans. That’s un-American and wrong.

Clearly the Bible needs to removed from our schools and libraries lest it corrupt our youth or make them feel guilty or cause them to question traditional American capitalism, individualism and nuclear family values. And of course this is just the beginning of a necessary purge. We need to remove all encyclopedias and histories that give us the low down on the human experience, all art books that depict the human figure and computers that give access to all of the above.

Most of my friends were outraged that book banning still occurs on such a significant scale, and urged their friends to buy and read banned books...Until recently, I reserved my concern for the right