Conservative Group Launches "Hide the Pride" to Remove Books From Library Pride Displays

[Nevilledog]

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"Hide the Pride" seeks to to "empty libraries of LGBTQ content aimed at kids" by checking out and hiding LGBTQ books on library Pride displays.

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Conservative Group Launches "Hide the Pride" to Remove Books From Library Pride Displays
The movement aims to "empty libraries of LGBTQ content aimed at kids" by checking out and hiding all LGBTQ books on library displays.
6:45 AM · Jun 6, 2022

https://bookriot.com/hide-the-pride/

CatholicVote, which calls itself “America’s top Catholic advocacy organization,” has launched a “parent-led movement” called Hide the Pride to “empty libraries of LGBTQ content aimed at kids.” It encourages members of the public to first collect signatures protesting library Pride displays containing children’s books, then to check out all of the books on display.

They recommend bringing a friend to have multiple library cards at the ready. After the titles are checked out, they then advise to “place the Pride books on a shelf out of reach of children” and email or mail the signatures to the library. They also note: “Most of all, it is not a debate. You don’t have to make your case or get into arguments. If questioned, you might simply say you are local residents with library cards checking out books. That’s your right.”

Earlier this month, a conservative school board candidate in Maryland did the same thing, though she didn’t stop at kids’ books. Heather Fletcher checked out all the LGBTQ books on the library Pride display in the Brunswick Public Library lobby as well as taking a cup of pronoun pins.

She claimed, “This has nothing to do with the gay community. It has to do with the preservation of innocence” and that she was “concerned the display would lead to age-inappropriate questions from children,” especially in seeing the word “queer.”

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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. Fucking cowards

Hide the pride, and pass out the pistols.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. If books were that dangerous they could change MAGA to Antifa

and I don't see that happening anywhere

[tenderfoot]

3. Who's funding these assholes?

eom

[Gore1FL]

4. Like they are going to go to a library... nt

[Nevilledog]

6. It's not like they're going to read, but to be cruel? Yes they will.

[SeattleVet]

5. And when they check out all the books, it shows that there's a demand for these books...

and many libraries will stock up on more copies.

Sort of a self-defeating protest, all the while demonstrating how big an a-hole they are.

Proceed, please!

[keithbvadu2]

7. Did they put this much effort against pedophile priests?

Did they put this much effort against pedophile priests?

Or was that OK?

[Cracklin Charlie]

8. Ya know who else wanted to remove people from existence?

Nazis.

[NCLefty]

9. Catholic group, eh? Well, they ARE experts at hiding things...

https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/study-identifies-16-child-sex-abuse-rings-in-victorian-catholic-church-20200215-p54158.html

[gratuitous]

10. And this isn't cancel culture because, uhm . . . .

It isn't, so just shut up! And stop saying that.