I love libraries. As a child, I looked forward to summer trips to the library, bringing home as many books as I was allowed, reading them all, and then waiting impatiently for the next week’s trip to town for more. Reading opened the world to me.
Now Idaho is making libraries off-limits to kids. A new censorship law threatens to fine individual librarians if minors are “exposed” to books that are deemed objectionable. That’s just about the opposite of common sense. Still, it’s hard to argue with individual librarians who fear being charged and fined if someone under 18 manages to get their hands on a book that the self-styled guardians of public morals condemn.
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Mary Turck