Town board votes to ban book-banning while slamming conservative activists

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The Wellington Board of Trustees passed a resolution on Tuesday to prevent banning books from the town’s public library.

In a 5-2 vote, the board made a strong proclamation against a group of residents, who in August had petitioned the board to ban a list of 19 books.

The resolution declares that the board may not “censor, suppress, remove, monitor or place age restrictions on ideas or information in our public library,” reports the Coloradoan.

The group trying to ban the books was led by Christine Gaiter, the wife of Board member Jon Gaiter (who voted against the resolution).  On Christine Gaiter’s list were books like Toni Morrison’s The Bluest Eye and E.L James’s Fifty Shades of Grey – and books with LGBTQ themes like Mariko Tamaki’s This One Summer and The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky – all of which she claimed were “pornographic materials.” She also said that librarians “should not endorse children to read pornography without a parent’s permission.”

The resolution against book banning was proposed by Trustee Rebekka Dailey, who called it “disgusting” to accuse library staff of providing pornography to kids.

“It’s obviously not true,” Dailey added during public comments.

While some people wanted the books completely banned, Gaiter recently told the board she merely wanted them…

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