Prosecutor threatens to throw librarian in jail for stocking this book

The librarian isn’t afraid and invited the prosecutor to arrest her.

Amy Churchill, director of the Lapeer District Library, is facing the possibility of criminal charges from a conservative county prosecutor in a fight over an LGBTQ-themed book.
Photo: courtesy bridgemi.com

A Michigan county prosecutor has threatened to file criminal charges against public library workers for allowing minors to check out an LGBTQ-themed graphic novel that contains, in the prosecutor’s words, “child sexual abusive material.” The county’s library director has said the prosecutor is welcome to arrest her whenever he likes.

Lapeer County Prosecutor John Miller (R) says the book, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer: A Memoir, “borders on … child sexual abusive material,” according to Bridge Michigan because it allegedly contains “drawings of sex acts [that] appeared to involve ‘prepubescent boys.’” He said he began investigating the book after several county commissioners approached him about it.

Miller says the book’s presence in the county’s eight public libraries may violate a law against enticing anyone under 16 “to…

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