• @qooqie
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    10 months ago

    The bill had 22 primary sponsors, including Republican state Sen. Larry Walker, who told NPR he was upset to learn his local library worked with the ALA to increase literary representation for the LGBTQ+ and BIPOC communities.

    “I feel this is kind of being forced on our children and kind of shoved down our throat," Walker told NPR. “I’m a pretty tolerant individual, but this has gone too far.”

    Yeah I doubt that, ya big dumb bitch

    • @[email protected]
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      4010 months ago

      I’m sure he has a gay cousin he hasn’t spoken to in 30 years who he’s perfectly tolerant of.

    • Flying Squid
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      “I’m a pretty tolerant individual, but people voluntarily going to a library and voluntarily getting a book and voluntarily reading it has gone too far.”