Placement of Graphic Books at the Core of Texas Library Director’s Firing
Christin Bentley, a Texas Senate Republican Executive Committee member, says that the issue didn’t begin with politics. It began with parents in 2022 but was brought to the forefront due to a Tyler mayoral election.
“Parents across the country started to see that there was explicit content in their school libraries. Out here in Tyler, there was a group that had been looking,” Bentley says.
Bentley explains that this group found really explicit and inappropriate books in the children’s section of the public library.
“And when we talk about sexually explicit, we don’t mean that, in these books, there is something sexual that is being implied. We are talking about graphic, leaving nothing to your imagination,” Bentley states.
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