Mr. Falun — the First Amendment limits government’s power to ban books entirely, whether arbitrarily or under cover of a juiced-up cancel culture moral panic about “protecting children.”
While libraries cannot afford to stock all books and, therefore, choices must be made, that doesn’t then give government the power to make lists of books to be shunned based on their supposed brain-warping traits.
All persons — including children — have the right to free speech, which includes the right to access speech that others would deny to them. In a free society, we resolve any conflicts about kids read and view by letting parents determine what is suitable for their children. What we don’t do and what the First Amendment to the US Constitution and Art I, Sec. 5 of the Washington Constitution forbids includes conscripting the public library system into fighting the war on ideas that some people don’t like.
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