Saturday, March 11, 2006

TCCL speaks out on HB 2158

Your one-stop site for everything relating to the Oklahoma House bill that is set to cause us all such headaches is now at the Tulsa City-County Library's website. In addition to the full text of the latest version of the bill and the referenced section on "sexual conduct", it includes a link to the library's policy statement and this marvelous quote from the chairman of the Tulsa City-County Library Commission:
The public library distributes books and other media which are broadly representative of human thought. In a diverse, pluralistic democracy not everyone will believe or like what they read. Library materials are representative of all social, political, religious and cultural points of views. Homosexuality is a reality. What would prevent other topics of reality from becoming off limits to young people who are free citizens entitled to free exercise of speech and thought?

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