Citizens in a town in Michigan voted against a millage that would have funded a local library after it displayed LGBT literature.
The vote in Jamestown Township, a small town located outside Grand Rapids, Michigan, was 1,905 votes opposed to the millage and 1,142 votes for the millage, according to an ABC affiliate in Grand Rapids. The millages for funding roads and fire departments passed.
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A group called Jamestown Conservatives organized the effort to get the Patmos Library defunded, taking issue with books such as Gender Queer: A Memoir being promoted by the library and accusing the library of grooming children through the books.
Officials say that, due to the lack of funding, the library is in danger of closing unless it can get another millage passed to help with money.
“I wasn’t expecting anything like this. The library is the center of the community. For individuals to be short-sighted to close that down over opposing LGBTQ is very disappointing,” Walton said to Bridge Michigan.
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The defunding of the Patmos Library is the latest in a series of parent-organized actions against LGBT content in schools and libraries. Last month in Arizona, a parent group took issue with the state Department of Education using COVID-19 funds to buy LGBT books.
