Hernando County joins Citrus in defunding ALA

By John Labriola - Citrus County's decision to cut ties with the American Library Association (ALA) over its radical Marxist LGBT agenda has created a ripple effect that is beginning to spread to other Florida counties.  

Last week, Hernando County became the second Florida county in the past month to end taxpayer funding to the far-left organization.  

Hernando County commissioners voted unanimously to stop paying membership dues to the ALA after Citrus County parental rights advocates joined forces with the Hernando County chapter of Moms for Liberty to denounce the ALA at the commission's final budget hearing on Sept. 26. 

About a dozen speakers blasted the ALA's discriminatory efforts to block family-friendly storytelling events by Christian publisher Brave Books and author/actor Kirk Cameron while promoting "drag queen story hours" and explicit LGBT materials to twist children's minds and make them easy prey for sexual predators. 

Several residents cited statements by the ALA’s self-proclaimed “Marxist lesbian” president Emily Drabinski, who told attendees at last month’s Socialism 2023 conference in Chicago that libraries “need to be a site of socialist organizing.”

“The ALA should be defunded not only because of Drabinski, but because it's been a corrupt far-left organization for decades with ties to the UN,” said Kim Winker of Brooksville, a Moms for Liberty member. “The ALA is one of the main reasons we have pornographic books in the schools and drag queen story hours.”

Commissioners also had passionate words about the ALA, which some admitted learning about only recently after residents brought the issue to their attention.

"It's ironic that this organization is called the American Library Association [because] this country was founded on Judeo-Christian values and principles, and these are the same religious freedoms they are looking to eliminate," said Hernando County Commissioner Jerry Campbell before joining all four of his colleagues in voting to defund the ALA. 

The vote came just weeks after the Citrus County Library Advisory Board (LAB) recommended cancelling membership dues to the ALA after dozens of Citrus residents spoke out at the LAB's Aug. 22 budget review meeting to demand an end to ALA funding. 

Following Citrus County commissioners' decision to uphold the LAB's recommendation, the Citrus Crusader decided to look into whether Hernando County also was paying ALA membership dues. After learning through sources within the county that Hernando's proposed 2023-24 budget did include ALA dues, the Crusader alerted the Hernando County chapter of Moms for Liberty, which mobilized its members to email commissioners and attend last week's budget hearing to urge them to remove ALA funding from the budget.

Hernando County Commissioner Brian Hawkins said he was amazed to see how openly the ALA flaunts its agenda on its website, where it celebrates books that promote homosexual pedophilia and dedicates an entire page to resources and tips on hosting drag queen story hours for children. 

Hawkins encouraged pro-family residents to "continue to fight the good fight" against the ALA's loathsome agenda. 

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