Conservatives join liberals in 'quiet and polite' Idaho protest to protect their library from book-banners
Bonners Ferry, Idaho (CNN)A couple of dozen men, women and children are silently reading books in the shade of apple trees one sunny morning in beautiful little Bonners Ferry, Idaho. But this is a protest.
"We're having a read-in in support of the library," explains Billie Jo Klaniecki, a spry 70-something wearing a broad brimmed sun hat and a careworn white shirt buttoned at the cuffs. "We're here being very quiet and very polite."
And why does the library need their support? Because the trustees are facing a recall, because the library's director just resigned under the pressure, and because a vocal group of activists is demanding the banning of more than 400 books from the library's shelves. Many of the targeted books are about gender or sexuality. And currently, the library does not stock any of them.
"They've come into our community with their standards and their agenda and they're determined they're going to force it on us," says Klaniecki. "They carry guns to library board meetings and school board meetings. Carry guns! We don't need that. This country doesn't need that."
http://www.cnn.com/2022/09/05/us/idaho-bonners-ferry-library-books/index.html
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