After holding a public hearing, the Alabama Senate Children and Youth Help Committee advanced a bill on Thursday to remove the obscenity exception for public schools and libraries.
Despite mostly favorable media coverage and assistance from out-of-state entities, the group supporting sexually explicit children’s books in Alabama libraries has yet to claim a significant win.
What have we accomplished this year? Not only have we replaced every single member of the Prattville-Autauga Library Board, we have also passed every reform we asked for.
On a recent episode of “1819 News: The Podcast,”‘ Wahl spoke about how these boards can be fertile ground for “social engineering” via socialistic policies.
Alabama GOP chairman John Wahl recently responded to complaints over his involvement in a scheduled roundtable discussion over explicit library books.
The issue of sexually explicit books made available to minors in Alabama libraries has taken front and center in the state’s political landscape.
Recently Prattville Mayor Bill Gillespie announced the city budget for the 2024 fiscal year, which included $355,000 for the Prattville-Autauga Library, which has been at the center of controversy surrounding its inclusion of sexually explicit children’s books.