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TexasTowelie

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Sun Aug 14, 2022, 09:30 AM Aug 2022

An Anti-LGBTQ Texas Mom Out to Ban Library Books Gets Pushback from Her Gay Son [View all]

Weston Brown saw a video of his mom speaking at a school board meeting and decided to speak up.


Weston Brown was scrolling through Twitter last month when he came across a video that made his chest tighten. It showed a woman at a school board meeting in North Texas, calling on district leaders to ask for forgiveness.

“Repentance is the word that’s on my heart,” she said near the start of the video.

For months, the woman in the clip had been demanding that the Granbury Independent School District ban from its libraries dozens of books that contained descriptions of sex or LGBTQ themes — books that she believed could be damaging to the hearts and minds of students. Unsatisfied after a district committee that she served on voted to remove only a handful of titles, the woman filed a police report in May accusing school employees of providing pornography to children, triggering a criminal investigation by Hood County.

Now, in the video that Weston found online, she was telling the school board that a local Christian pastor, rather than librarians, should decide which books should be allowed on public school shelves. “He would never steer you wrong,” she said.

The clip ended with the woman striding away from the lectern, and the audience showering her with applause.

Read more: http://www.outsmartmagazine.com/2022/08/an-anti-lgbtq-texas-mom-out-to-ban-library-books-gets-pushback-from-her-gay-son/
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