Parents in southern Manitoba are advocating for the funding to public libraries in seven municipalities to be cut if they will not remove books written for children and youth that contain explicit sexual content from the shelves in South Central regional libraries.
Parent David Wall gave a presentation at the City of Winkler Council Meeting on Dec. 13, reading excerpts “taken from juvenile books available at local libraries.”
He said that books being labelled by libraries and media as “sex education” books are catalogued by their publishers as “sex instruction.”
Wall said, “The difference: sex education focuses on basic anatomy and the biology of sex. These books, however, are instructing our children on how to commit various sexual acts.”…