No charges for Wyoming librarians over sex ed, LGBTQ books

[Omaha Steve]

Source: AP

By MEAD GRUVER

CHEYENNE, Wyo. (AP) — A prosecutor won’t charge library employees for making sex education and LGBTQ-themed books available to young people in a deeply conservative city in Wyoming coal-mining country, saying he wouldn’t have a case.

The three books in the teenager section and one in the children’s section are among dozens contested at the library in Gillette in recent weeks. Library officials have been reviewing the complaints.

One couple went further, bringing five books to the attention of the Campbell County Sheriff’s Office in September. Sheriff’s officials referred the matter to county prosecutors, who asked a prosecutor in a neighboring county to handle the matter to avoid a potential conflict of interest with fellow county officials at the library.

The books are “This Book is Gay” by Juno Dawson, “How Do You Make a Baby” by Anna Fiske, “Doing It” by Hannah Witton, “Sex is a Funny Word” by Cory Silverberg, and “Dating and Sex: A Guide for the 21st Century Teen Boy” by Andrew P. Smiler.



A shirt makes a political statement in a storefront in Gillette, Wyo. on Tuesday, Sept. 21, 2021. Prosecutors said they were considering possible criminal charges against Campbell County Public Library officials after some locals complained to police that books about sex and how to have a baby were in the children's and teenage sections. (AP Photo/Mead Gruver)


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[Drunken Irishman]

1. Ironic that for the last few years the right has railed against safe spaces & it's now them doing it

[Thomas Hurt]

2. The moral scolds don't have to check them out, which means this isn't about what...

them or their children might read but about what other people's children might read and that is none of their fn business.

[bucolic_frolic]

3. The publishers and the rest of society don't seem to have any problem with these books

I'd call the hyper-prudes but it's really about running other people's lives

[keithbvadu2]

4. There are always republican family values shown by Congresswoman Boebert's husband exposing himself

There are always republican family values shown by Congresswoman Boebert's husband exposing himself to children.

[Crowman2009]

5. I think dying in a coal mining accident would be of more concern than worrying about education books

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

7. It's the 21st century not the 9th century for God's sakes.

[Farmer-Rick]

8. Really, they have a law to jail librarians for having books in a library?

Next up let's jail a filthy rich person for being rich.