Residents demand change on Library Advisory Board

By John Labriola - 

As Citrus County's elected leaders begin reviewing applications from an unprecedented 39 candidates for the Library Advisory Board (LAB), residents are urging county commissioners to appoint citizens who will respect community values and parental rights.

About 20 people showed up at this Tuesday's commission meeting to call for a major shakeup of the LAB when commissioners meet on April 26 in their capacity as the governing body for the county library system to decide whether to reappoint or replace five members of the nine-member advisory board. The meeting will take place at 1 p.m. on Tuesday, April 26, in the Citrus County Courthouse, 110 N. Apopka Ave, Inverness, FL 34450.  

"I'm asking you to make sure that when you pick the library advisory group, that those five people are going to represent 'We the People,'" said Cheryl Cushman, a child advocate from Citrus Springs.

The leftist-dominated LAB voted 7-2 on March 22 to allow the library system's "LGBT Pride Month" displays to continue unchallenged, despite pleas from dozens of residents who showed up at the meeting and many hundreds more who signed a petition to end the displays. However, Library Director Eric Head last week announced a "cooling off period" in reaction to the firestorm of controversy surrounding the issue, with no LGBT displays planned for this June. But on Tuesday, residents demanded a permanent solution beginning with the appointment of new LAB members. 

"It's just a delaying tactic," Tracy Edgmon of Hernando complained. "Stop sexualizing the children. Stop turning them into this situation that predators feed on."

Some residents pointed out that Florida's new Parental Rights in Education Act, signed last month by Gov. Ron DeSantis, bans schools from engaging in the kind of LGBT grooming represented by last June's library displays, which featured rainbow flags, slogans and books promoting homosexuality and transgenderism to children. 

"It's grooming the children, it's pedophilia, it's indoctrination," said Gill Phelan of Lecanto. 

Although parental rights advocates outnumbered opponents by a better than 5 to 1 margin at Tuesday's meeting, Commissioners Holly Davis and Ruthie Schlabach singled out two militant lesbian activists for special praise: Deb Spence of Crystal River, who has spoken at multiple commission meetings to demand the continuation of the LGBT propaganda displays that target children, and Marti Little of Hernando, who started out arguing for a new animal shelter but then suddenly shifted gears by proudly declaring herself "one of those Disney perverts" and angrily exclaiming: "You ought to take the Bibles out of school because I don't want children learning this hate!" (View video compilation HERE.)

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