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JAMESTOWN TOWNSHIP, Michigan (LifeSiteNews) – Voters in a Michigan township were fed-up with the LGBT propaganda pushed in their local library, so after getting nowhere in convincing the library to remove inappropriate books, they defunded it.

Jamestown Township voters rejected a property tax renewal for the Patmos Library. Since 84 percent of the funds for its operations comes from taxation this means that the library will likely run out money in 2023, according to Bridge Michigan. Locals objected to graphic pro-LGBT and transgender books being on display, including one which has illustrated sex acts in its pages.

The local news site reported:

As many as 50 people attended several library board meetings this spring, meetings that typically draw only a handful of residents. At those meetings, residents demanded the book be pulled from the shelves. The library board moved the book behind the counter, where children couldn’t happen upon it by accident.

Complaints were filed about several other books, including “Spinning,” a graphic novel about a teen girl and her attraction to other girls, and “Kiss Number 8,” a graphic novel with similar themes. Those books remain on the shelves of the young adult (high-school age) graphic novels section.

Two consecutive library directors resigned after facing pushback for putting inappropriate materials on the shelves.

Voters explained their opposition.

“We don’t need to see those books out front,” Sarah Johnson told Bridge Michigan. “We’re all for the library. I use it. We want to make a statement that we want some say in the books (chosen to be in the collection).”

An organizer with the Jamestown Conservatives group, which organized opposition, accused the library of trying to groom children. “They are trying to groom our children to believe that it’s OK to have these sinful desires,” Amanda Ensing said. “It’s not a political issue, it’s a Biblical issue.”

But the library board president Larry Walton made statements indicating he will dig his heels in over the issue of LGBT books — which the library maintains amounts to 90 out of 67,000.

For those 90 books, Walton, it seems, will let the library close.

“A wake-up call to what? To take LGBTQ books off the shelf and then they will give us money? What do you call that? Ransom?” he said, according to Bridge Michigan. “We stand behind the fact that our community is made up of a very diverse group of individuals, and we as a library cater to the diversity of our community,” he said.

A “new business item” for the upcoming August 8 library board meeting includes “library future operations.”

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