It's for the children...

 Another book in the Christian County Library system that seeks to influence your children. All access for all ages. That's the library's policy.

Trans Teen Survival Guide by David Rice

This book in the Youth Collection in Ozark in the Christian County Library. It's for teens as young as 12. Maybe even for preteens the way it reads.

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Twelve Stones Podcast: Ep. 2, Pastor Reggie Micham

Pastor Reggie Micham describes the battle to provide a safe environment for children in our local library. Reggie's determination to do something about the sexually explicit and age-inappropriate books was one of the sparks that ignited citizen involvement in Christian County.

Queer Equals Marxist

 

 

 By Gretchen Garrity 

Gays Against Groomers interviewed James Lindsay about the underlying meaning of Queer--one of the letters in the LGBTQA+ acronym. Lindsay has co-authored a book, "The Queering of the American Child," that explains the political goals of Queer Theory. Early in the interview, Lindsay tells us that the Q letter in LGBTQA+ is "hiding behind the other letters...and is using the LGBT (but not Transgender) as human shields." Fascinating information, and important to know as our local library has numerous books (see them below the videos) that push this indoctrination on children.

 

Incidentally, the American Library Association's former president, Emily Drabinski, wrote an academic paper titled, "Queering the Catalog: Queer Theory and the Politics of Correction." 

Queer equals Marxist. It is revolution in our libraries to destabilize families, the better to overcome our culture, and ultimately our nation. Watch below:

Doing a keyword search for "queer," the following books pop up in the Christian County Library system.

Queer ducks (and other animals) : the natural world of animal sexuality

Queen's English (Young Readers' adaptation)

Ash's Cabin

Icarus

Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales

Love that story : observations from a gorgeously queer life

Gender Queer

Real queer America : LGBT stories from red states

Queer : the ultimate LGBT guide for teens

The New Queer Conscience

The Queer Bible: Essays

Queer and fearless

 

Your Local Library Pushes Gender Ideology on Kids

 

"I had a colo-vaginoplasty back in 2012 or 13... and a year after that, my deeply-held belief that living and passing as the opposite sex would make me happier melted away." Detransitioned man @Sackless_Jack gives wise advice to those questioning their gender or considering… pic.twitter.com/38uxKUYqHi

— Transition Justice (@TransJusticeOrg) September 27, 2024

 Lots of gender ideology books in the Christian County Library are noted HERE. There are many people in Christian County who are fighting this pernicious ideology...everyday citizens and elected officials are making a stand. Do not let your public institutions fall to the death cult.

 

 

 

Why are we doing transgender “period parties” for elementary school kids in public libraries?? There’s no justification for this insanity. https://t.co/l2BwbmivC3

— Chloe Cole ⭐️ (@ChoooCole) September 27, 2024

 

 

Library Board Minutes Tell a Story

Board Minutes of July 26, 2021

By Gretchen Garrity

The attorney for the Christian County Library Board of Trustees has sued the Board for allegedly violating its bylaws for election of officers at the August 27, 2024 meeting. See HERE. The board’s attorney, Harry Styron, is representing the board in the suit against...the board.

Although the original complaint named board Secretary Janis Hagen as the plaintiff along with the “Christian County Library District,” that has since been amended to name only the Library District, which in essence, is the governing body—the Christian County Library Board of Trustees.

While officer elections are mandated in the bylaws for December, the bylaws do not specifically prohibit officer elections at other times of the year. Indeed, when occasional vacancies and July trustee appointments occur the Board has held elections then, as recently as 2023.

It makes sense that officer elections would also occur in July since the Christian County Commission appoints library board members each year at that time, or whenever a vacancy occurs.

However, the lawsuit revolves around the attempt to prevent the newly-elected board from assuming their positions.

BACKGROUND HISTORY

At the July 26, 2021 board meeting Secretary Janis Hagen was absent, and a board vacancy prompted an election of officers that included leaving the office of President vacant until December, and to have Trustee Hagen remain in her position as board secretary.

Listed under Old Business, a vice-president and treasurer were elected, as well as a member-at-large. The minutes read exactly as follows:

“Election of Board of Trustee Officer Positions for Remainder of 2021.”

Each of five positions is then noted, with accompanying explanation. The full slate of officers (as well as the member-at-large position) was listed to be elected, although the Board decided not to elect a president due to the board vacancy. Three positions were elected and one position remained the same.

At the July 25, 2023 Board meeting, a president, vice-president, and treasurer were elected. Hagen remained as secretary. The following December meeting was a reaffirmation of the same slate.

The board attorney, therefore, has sued the board for doing what it has already been doing for several years. 

Why now?

At the September 24, 2024 board meeting, the board voted to amend the bylaws to specifically state that officer elections can occur at any time of the year, as warranted. The annual mandated election of officers will remain as well, but in July instead of December. This affirms what has already been occurring in the last few years.

Video below, scroll to about 54 minutes in for discussion of the bylaw changes.

THE MISSOURI SUNSHINE LAW

One other issue mentioned in the lawsuit is a purported violation of the Sunshine law. Because the August agenda called for a vice-president election, and not typically “officer elections,” the lawsuit claims the public was not properly notified. The Missouri Sunshine law states, “All public governmental bodies shall give notice of the time, date, and place of each meeting, and its tentative agenda, in a manner reasonably calculated to advise the public of the matters to be considered…”

Since officer shuffles often happen, even if only one officer is slated to be elected, the library staff member who wrote the agenda would have better served the public and the Board by using the term “officer elections.” The question then, was the public “reasonably” advised of a board election?

Incidentally, the library board has often elected members to the Member-at-Large position. However, that seems to have ended with the appointments of Diana Brazeale and Echo Schneider in 2023.

The Cultural Marxists in Christian County Want Your Kids to Have Complete Access to This Book

 

Sex Plus🍑 is a Youth Book in Nixa by David Rice

Christian County Library thinks your teenager needs access to this book. No permission needed. No warning label—sexually explicit material. Why?

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The Transgender Ideology in Our Library

 

By Gretchen Garrity

Local citizens and parents may not be aware of the globalist, ideological agenda of transgenderism that is being actively pushed in our local library. In her essays, collected in her book, "Transsexual, Transgender, Transhuman," Jennifer Bilek describes the process that moves humanness toward a "differently" human future. Bilek explains:

"'Transgenderism' is a word acting as a social bridge between transsexualism and transhumanism...A transhumanist existence is one where biological reality, such as the border between male and female, would become irrelevant."

Bilek has been researching the gender industry for over a decade. She says, "It is becoming apparent to many now that medically assaulting children's reproductive organs will go down in history as one of the greatest scandals of all time. What is still escaping most people is the connection this medical assault on children's reproductive organs has to technology; how we are all being systematically, sexually traumatized, and conditioned to dissociate from ourselves by technology."

The rabbit hole goes very deep on a global level. But it has also reached our communities, impacting children and young people we may know. The Christian County Library is providing many books dedicated to the transgender agenda, from infants to teens. I looked at the Coolcat Catalog after perusing the last couple years of the  Rainbow Reading List, and while there are hundreds of books in our library, I have listed just under 30 books that deal mainly with gender ideology. 

A few deal with subjects unrelated to gender ideology, but do show the indoctrination that is occurring in our culture. I noted a few books that have appropriated classics for children, like Anne of Green Gables, and Treasure Island. There are many of those that recast stories and characters to reflect something far different than the originals.

The links take you to the online catalog of the Christian County Library. Note the ages at which gender ideology is being promoted. If you want to read a parent's perspective on gender transitioning, go HERE. It's heartrending and infuriating. And this sort of thing is IN OUR LIBRARY where vulnerable children have access.

1. The Pronoun Books, for ages 3 and under (Tags: Gender, Gender Identity, Gender studies, Diversity, Early Reader)

2. Antiracist Baby, for ages 0-4 (Tags: Social justice, activism, race relations, diversity)

3. I’m Not a Girl, for ages 3-6 years (Tags: Transgender, Gender Identity, Acceptance)

4. Books like My Fade is Fresh, for ages 3-7. (Tags: Gender non-conforming)

5. Small Knight and the Anxiety Monster for ages 4-8. (Tags: Gender non-conforming)

6. My Moms Love Me, for ages 3-5. (The baby is described as "ungendered" in a review on the Coolcat website.) Publishers Weekly, May 2, 2022

7. Julian is a Mermaid, for ages 4-8 years. (Gender non-conforming)

8. Julian at the Wedding, for ages 4-8 years. (Gender non-conforming)

9. When Aidan became a Brother, for ages 4-8 years. (Tags: Gender, Transgender)
   

10. I Am Jazz, for ages 4-8 years. (Tags: Transgender, Self-acceptance)
    

11. It Feels Good to be Yourself, for ages 4-8 years. (Tags: Gender Identity, Transgender)

12. It’s Okay to be Different, for ages 3-6 (Social Emotional Learning)

13. Racial Justice: Let us March On! For ages 4-8 years. (Social Justice)

14. I Love You Because I Love You, for ages 4-8 years (Tags: Gender Identity, Social Justice, Harmony)

15. Were I Not a Girl, for ages 4-8 years (Tags: Gender Issues, Male Impersonators, Trans)

16. The Young Activist’s Dictionary of Social Justice, for ages 7-12. (Tags: Social Justice, Gun Control, Gender Transition, Organizing, Climate Justice, Racism)

17. Rainbow Revolutionaries, for ages 8-12 (Tags: Gender identity, diversity, pride activism)

18. Pride: The Story of Harvey Milk and the Rainbow Flag, for ages 5-8 years (Tags: Pride, Activism, Social Justice)

19. The Every Body Book, for ages 7-12 years, (Tags: Gender, Gender Expression, Reproductive Health, Sex)

20. Anne: An Adaptation of Anne of Green Gables (sort of), ages 8-12 years (Tags: LGBTQIA, Relationship, Graphic Novels)

21. Stand Up and Speak Out Against Racism, for ages 9-12 years (Tags: Multi-culturalism, Social issues, Race)

22. A Snake Falls to Earth, for ages 10-14 (Tags: Asexual, Climate Change, Magic, Spirits)

23. Identity: A Story of Transitioning, for ages 11 and up (Tags: Gender, Juvenile, Graphic Novel)

24. Beyond the Gender Binary, for ages 12 and up (Tags: Social justice, Gender Theory, Gender Nonconforming, Queer Studies, Gender Fluid)

25. Stay Gold, for ages 14 and up (Tags: Transgender, Coming of Age, Coming Out, Bullying)

26. I Was Born for This, for ages 14 and up (Tags: Transgender, Mental Health, Romance)

27. The Honeys, for ages 14 and up (Tags: Gender Fluid, Thriller, Horror, Paranormal)

28. The Feeling of Falling in Love, for ages 14 years and up (Tags: Transgender, Romance, Homophobia)

29. A Clash of Steel: A Treasure Island Remix, for ages 13 up (Tags: LGBTQ+, Romance, Lesbian, 19^th Century)

    

    Young girls are particular targets and victims of gender ideology
    

    Note how these books, thanks to a concerted effort on the part of book publishers, are geared toward children of every age. The above books were added by the library staff to their collections in just the last couple years. There are many, many more. My impromptu list was close to 160 books with varying themes. Parents should have the right to control access to them. These books are shelved with unfettered availability to children of every age.

    There is a monthly meeting of the Christian County Library Board of Trustees on Tuesday, Sept. 24, at 6 p.m. at the Nixa library branch. Make your voice heard.
    

     
    

Media Coverage of the Christian County Library

David Rice has a three part series about media coverage of the Christian County Library Board of Trustees:

Here are parts One and Two.

State Media Lies about the Library, Part 3 by David Rice

Springfield News-Leader is famous for writing fiction. So, to help correct their narrative, I'm giving context to their misinformation about what happened at the Christian County Library Board.

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A Billion Dollar Industry in Your Local Library

 

Image: Publishers Weekly

 

By Gretchen Garrity

 

"Attempting to disown one's sexed reality is not a human right or a lifestyle choice...It is indoctrination, being spread over technology, and through our institutions..." -- Jennifer Bilek

 

The Christian County Library's September 2024 newsletter features some titles new to the library. Among them is the graphic novel anthology "Indiginerds." Geared to children ages 12-18, the collection of stories is described in the Coolcat online catalog as "First Nations culture is living, vibrant, and evolving, and generations of Indigenous kids have grown up with pop culture creeping inexorably into our lives. From gaming to social media, pirate radio to garage bands, Star Trek to D&D, and missed connections at the pow wow, Indigenous culture is so much more than how it's usually portrayed. INDIGNERDS is here to celebrate those stories!."

The classification genres Indiginerds include "Indigenous peoples, social life and customs, comic books, juvenile literature, popular culture, identity (psychology)," and more.

From: Goodreads review

 

What you will not be informed of is the lesbianism (sapphic love), gender ideology, Two-spirit, trans-femme, queer themes, and Critical Race Theory threaded throughout the graphic novel.

From: Goodreads review

These kinds of books are being published by the hundreds every year and funneled into libraries, including the Christian County Library. In her book "Transsexual, Transgender, Transhuman," journalist Jennifer Bilek details this process. She writes:

"In less than a decade, the 'transgender human rights movement', replete with their own NGOs, has morphed from 'born in the wrong body' to 'gender identity disorder', to 'gender dysphoria', to 'gender incongruence', to 'gender identity', to 'gender expression', complete with lines of make-up, fashion and body scars."

She goes on:

"Should it be a surprise that there is now a contagion among young women wanting to have their healthy breasts amputated? Is is possible that they are absorbing the messages that promote dysphoria as progressive, cool, and edgy by media conglomerates selling this exact message?"

From: Goodreads review

  

The media conglomerates publish and sell these books in order to spread the message that sex is on a spectrum that seems to have no end. New genders are being "discovered" every day. Whatever random thought comes into a 13-year-old kid's mind is to be capitalized upon by a billion-dollar gender industry of puberty blockers, surgeries, psychology, and more.

Bilek writes, "While the media inundates us with these messages...gender ideology activists and their NGOs supporting the construct of 'synthetic sex medical expressions' are depathologizing this monstrosity and attempting to sell the public the idea that sex exists on a spectrum, that human sexual dimorphism is a contruct..."

Finally, Bilek writes, "We must understand that this apparatus of the gender industry is being strategically driven by capital, technological developments, and the MIC [Medical Industrial Complex] through all our institutions, corporations, and governments. While we are all arguing about what identity means as it is overlaid with sex-role stereotypes, the elites are running away with human sex. They are violating the boundary between male and female, opening markets in which our essential humanity becomes a-sky-is-the-limit market to be mined."

Since there has been citizen involvement in the library regarding the many books that should not be placed in the children's or teen sections of the library, the Coolcat online catalog has gotten very cunning about how books are being described and marketed. It has become difficult to determine if a book is really just nerdy indigenous kids growing up, or characters in a billion dollar industry that operates with diabolical efficiency to affect children in communities everywhere.

From: Coolcat online catalog

Indiginerds is being placed in the Ozark branch of the CCL. Your children, ages 12-18 are being targeted. If you object to this book--and there are many more in our county library system--please let the Christian County Library Board of Trustees know your thoughts. You can contact them here: rbrumett@christiancountylibrary.org or you can attend a monthly board meeting. The next one is Tuesday, Sept. 24, 2024 at 6 p.m.

What is happening?

 

Did the former Library Board President use Police to intimidate the public? She swears she didn’t, but the police officer says her sergeant told her the President wanted the parking lot cleared. @SexHarassed @Right2WinOzarks @SafeLibraries @MOEdWatch https://t.co/HR6SMk4L7L pic.twitter.com/yzCoHSSNB9

— HickChristian (@hickchristnews) September 4, 2024

 

According to a reply by Dan Kleinman of Safe Libraries, this is a common tactic:

In Case You Haven't Seen This

Cross-posted from Hick Christian:

 

I Was There

One eyewitness shares their account of the fight in the libraries and schools.

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Christian County Library Board Meeting Tonight

 

@right2winozarks

♬ original sound - Right2WinOzarks

 

AGENDA HERE.

The Libraries are Pursuing Your Daughters

 David Rice of Hick Christian shares what our libraries are up to...as far as the continuous sexualization and demoralization of our culture. If only we could wake them up to what groups like the American Library Association and the Missouri Library Association are pushing.  The ALA and MLA are not organizations that promote actual reading skills, quality literature, and community cohesiveness. They push "literacy" in things like DEI, SEL, CRT, and so on. They push to divide us into siloed groups so they can further destroy the cohesiveness of our community's values.

The preponderance of books in many libraries are often recent fiction with little literary value. Librarians "weed" out classics that were published years ago. It deprives us our literary and cultural heritage, but that's the point.

Here you go:

Christian County Library is a threat to your Daughters by David Rice

Why Does the Christian County Library want to Empower your Daughters to be Murderers, Gay, or Overly Sexualized?

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The Irony

 Lesson  #1: Make sure your kids don't go browsing the bookshelves alone while the event is happening.

Serving Up the Public

July 23, 2024 Library Board Meeting

By Gretchen Garrity

As residents continue to pressure the Christian County Library to relocate inappropriate books from the children and teen sections of the library, the staff and some members of the board of trustees continue to resist commonsense solutions.

At the July 23, 2024 board meeting, several things occurred that point to President Allyson Tuckness as a vector for at least part of the resistance. For some months now, the library has hired off-duty police officers to attend the public board meetings and to keep the peace. This has proven wise since there was a physical outburst by a citizen who had to be removed.

In an effort to keep tight control of the public meetings, Tuckness had enforced stringent rules for the public, including limiting speakers to 10, limiting speech time to three minutes, and attempting to limit audience reactions such as clapping or holding of signs. After she was roundly admonished by Rep. Jamie Gragg she has since allowed both clapping and signs, as well as sometimes allowing for more than 10 speakers:

 

Although the Missouri Public Library Trustee Manual (from the Secretary of State) states that board meetings “generally should be completed within two hours,” most Christian County library board meetings are targeted to end within one hour. They usually end on time or nearly so.

After the meeting on the 23rd, at least 12 or more citizens remained talking in the parking lot in small groups. The meeting ended a little later than usual, about 7:08 p.m. Distributed among those groups were current board of trustee members, as well as a citizen who is a constitutional coach with a nationally known organization.

At one point the security officer approached the citizens and requested they disperse. Citizens resisted and were told the library parking lot was private property. After assuring the officer the parking lot was public property the officer stepped away to consult a supervisor, only later to come back and again assert that because it was now a closed business, citizens were being asked to disperse and that it “was a little suspicious.”

“My sergeant said, ‘Yes it is a government building, but it is closed at this time, and that the president requested to disperse,'” the officer stated. So, Library Board President Allyson Tuckness was behind the manipulation of public peace officers to remove citizens from a taxpayer-funded library property.

After no less than three police cars converged in the Nixa library parking lot and conferred with citizens, it was agreed that all were peacefully assembling and had a right to be present in the parking lot, regardless of the time and the wishes of the library board president.

This kind of behavior on the part of the library board president is unacceptable. To get an idea of how she treats the public, watch July’s meeting as Tuckness refuses to allow board member Echo Alexzander to address allowing more than 10 citizens to comment. Her excuse was that the issue was not on the agenda. Later, she interacts with a citizen who had noted that the timekeeper, Tory Pegram, was starting the timer late with certain citizens, allowing them more time to speak. Forward to the public comment section at about 36:00 minutes. Tuckness specifically mentions “no raising of voices.” Watch her raise her voice when a speaker asks to reclaim time on the clock that had apparently been running while the board took pictures of one speaker’s sign. Timestamp: 43:42. 

To a great extent, the friction between the public and the library board and staff is due to an ongoing refusal to address concerns and to disrespect the public by ignoring questions and pleas about child safety within the library. Having made child safety a political issue, the board and staff are now having to deal with a growing number of citizens who insist the library must address relocating inappropriate books to the adult section, where parents may decide for themselves if they want their children exposed to them.

Board President Tuckness is politically motivated enough to sic the police on citizens, including other board members with whom she may disagree. It is to the police officers’ credit that they ultimately refused to go along with her dictate.

NOTE: This article is cross posted at Hick Christian's Substack.

They Just Keep Doing It

 At Tuesday night's Christian County Library Board of Trustees meeting, it was revealed that the library continues to promote sexually explicit books to minors. David Rice has a stellar article about it. Read it HERE.

The Library Bill of Rights is for Sexualizing Children by David Rice

Protecting Innocence: How Library Policies and Court Decisions Expose Children to Harmful Content, Undermining Parental Rights

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Meeting tonight in Nixa

 

Oscar Wilde: Library Saint

David Rice writes about the Christian County Library's Pride Month display, and an extended, all-ages Library Scavenger Hunt that can take "all ages" participants past the display. Interesting observations, not least of which is the elevation of author and pedophile Oscar Wilde to a position of hero in the LGBTQ movement.

Read about it here: The Library's Holy Saint: Oscar Wilde.

From his article: "Are we asked to accept that Oscar Wilde’s type of virtue is higher than all other virtues? Is this what “Queering spaces” means for our librarians? Is Pedophilia normalized even here in Christian County? If we ask about it, we’re told to “submit a request for reconsideration.” Does that sound like Librarians hold no power? Or does it sound like they are the new religion and the new power, and is it the expectation for us to get in line and offer our children up to the Oscar Wilde’s of this community?"

"You cannot be something you're not"

By Gretchen Garrity

It is imperative that children are protected, both physically and emotionally. Many children with gender dysphoria come from a history of trauma. Children, let alone traumatized children, cannot consent to making such irrevocable changes. That our culture is so bent that publishers, authors, and libraries push ideological books on children as young as toddlers, is shameful and evil. 

Listen to Sam tell his story in the video below. It is heartbreaking. And yet Sam is a testament to the resilience of a soul crying out for truth. Then decide that you will not remain silent while such books are stealthily pushed to our children in our own libraries.

This agenda has nothing to do with the "freedom to read." It is outright diabolical. And there are legions of people who would like nothing better than to get these books into the hands of children. 

Here's a reading list for children. Two titles from that list are in the Christian County Library: I Am Jazz, and The Story of Ferdinand.  Yes, this ideology has usurped a children's classic and made it about sexuality.* There's more in the CCL from another list that also targets minors: Gracefully Grayson, and Some Assembly Required.

God bless and keep Sam. His courage is inspiring.

 

 

*Inside Picture Books

Missouri Liberty Radio Tonight!

 

The subject on Sam's radio show tonight from 6-9 p.m. is censorship. Link HERE. 

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