https://www.advocate.com/politics/georgia-senate-ala
"Republican state senators in Georgia on Thursday passed a bill that would
force state libraries to cut ties with the American Library Association. Senate
Bill 390 was passed by a vote of 33-20 vote with no support from Democratic
senators. The bill’s supporters cited the ALA’s progressive policies and Emily
Drabinski, the group’s lesbian president, as motivation for the legislation.
Several states including Missouri, Montana, South Carolina, and Texas have
announced or enacted some form of disassociation from the ALA, but the Georgia
bill passed by the Senate yesterday would be the first to effectively ban
nearly all association with the group.
“No county, municipality, school district, authority, division,
instrumentality, political subdivision, or public body corporate created under
the Constitution or laws of this state shall be authorized to use any taxpayer
or privately donated funds on materials, services, or operations offered by the
American Library Association or any of its affiliates,” the bill declares.
The bill had 22 primary sponsors, including Republican state Sen. Larry Walker,
who told NPR he was upset to learn his local library worked with the ALA to
increase literary representation for the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities.
“I feel this is kind of being forced on our children and kind of shoved down
our throat,” Walker told
NPR. “I'm a pretty tolerant individual, but this has
gone too far.”"
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