Missouri House Republicans Vote to Defund Public Libraries After School Libraries Sue Over ‘Sexually Explicit’ Book Ban

“Library funding is guaranteed in the MO constitution. This tactic, meant to bully MLA into submission, instead directly harms public libraries who rely on those funds, especially the smaller, more rural libraries”


By -- AG American Greatness—— Bio and Archives--April 15, 2023

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Republican lawmakers in Missouri voted to defund public libraries this week, cutting all $4.5 million in state funding that libraries were slated to receive in the next fiscal year.

The Missouri state House of Representatives were following through on threats they made after state and school libraries sued to overturn a new Missouri law that banned “sexually explicit materials” in school libraries.

“Explicit sexual material” is defined in Missouri Revised Statute § 573.550 as “any pictorial, three-dimensional, or visual depiction, including any photography, film, video, picture, or computer-generated image, showing human masturbation, deviate sexual intercourse as defined in section 566.010, sexual intercourse, direct physical stimulation of genitals, sadomasochistic abuse, or emphasizing the depiction of postpubertal human genitals.” ---More...

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