We now have to pass laws to protect freedoms we thought we had
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Story by Petula Dvorak (19 Feb 2024)
One of the most disquieting pieces of legislation hit the Maryland General Assembly last month.
It's House Bill 785 — the Freedom to Read Act.
"A library should not exclude material from its catalogue because of the origin, background or views of a person who created the material," it says.
"A library should not prohibit or remove material from its catalogue because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval."
And the gut punch is about the librarians themselves. They shall not be "dismissed, demoted, suspended, disciplined, reassigned, transferred or otherwise retaliated against," the bill states.
"I have had library workers come to me and say, 'I'm scared to recommend books to young people,'" said Tiffany Sutherland, president of the Maryland Library Association and a librarian in Calvert County.
We can thank the Moms for Liberty — a name as oxymoronic as "down escalator" — for helping to fuel this assault on a freedom we all thought was part of life in the United States.
You can't claim freedom and liberty and then decide what books other people can read. You can't object to the government, then ask the government to do your parenting for you by banning the books you don't want your kids to read.