Parents rights group threatens people who offer banned books in free libraries [Video]

The leader of a Utah “parents’ rights” group has suggested using a state anti-pornography law to prosecute people who offer banned books in Little Free Libraries, small public collections of borrowable books. The leader’s suggestion came after a state legislator said she planned on placing recently banned books into Little Free Libraries.

In late September, Utah state Rep. Sahara Hayes (D) posted an Instagram video in which she said, in commemoration of Banned Books Week, that she would place some books banned by local school districts into Little Free Libraries around the school district.

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“In the past year, the legislature passed even more laws that make it easier to ban books in schools,” Hayes said in the video, noting that the state recently banned 13 titles from all public schools to “[protect] children from the harmful effects of illicit pornography.”

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