Only 8 DAYS remain to send your letter to the Alabama Public Library Service to oppose the amendment to ban positive depictions of transgender people in Alabama libraries. Use our online letter here and share with friends! www.readfreelyalabama.org/apls_oct2025...
Extremists are now demanding that books discussing sexual orientation be banned from Alabama libraries.‼️This would mean books such as “Heather Has Two Mommies,”would be BANNED by forbidding their purchase.‼️ Send your letter to APLS today w this link: www.readfreelyalabama.org/apls_oct2025...
"A belief system that cannot withstand questions, that must silence difficult stories rather than engage with them, is a belief system built on fear. If faith is real—if it is strong—then it should be able to hold its own in conversation with literature." nonprofitquarterly.org/madeleine-le...
📢We’ve shared before that Moms for Liberty, Eagle Forum, and Alabama Policy Institute are all official 2025 Coalition Partners. 📢
‼️Now, a leaked database shows how prominent leaders in these organization strongly encouraged supporters to apply to be a part of Project 2025. ‼️https://bit.ly/4l2bL5o
It’s not just concerned parents… 72% of book censorship efforts come from pressure groups and government officials. Only 16% come from parents, and 12% from others like teachers or library users.
We find it unacceptable that extremists like Ms. Minton can weaponize APLS Executive Board against librarians and library boards who have their community’s best interests in mind.
It appears Minton and Moms For Liberty would prefer that teens, who would be considered by the state mature enough to give birth and be parents, are not considered mature enough to access basic sex education and biology materials.
We find it troubling that Ms. Minton is intent on keeping teens ignorant of factual information about sex and reproduction, including restricting education on how to protect themselves and how to make informed decisions.
Minton singles out a sex education book for teens titled “Doing It’, which gives frank and honest information to teens. The Fairhope Public Library Board found it to be age-appropriate for the young adult section.
APLS Board Member and Moms For Liberty supporter Amy Dozier Minton, who challenged 30 inclusive books in her own local library, is demanding that the library move all fifteen of the targeted books despite the local board’s decision.
Of the fifteen books, the Board made the decision to relocate 5 to the adult section, while the rest remain in the Young Adult section of the library. This demonstrates how the review process for challenged books is meant to be conducted, but it seems the goalpost has been moved once again.
Last night, the Fairhope Public Library Board met to discuss their decision on the books challenged by local Moms for Liberty extremists that resulted in the library being stripped of its state funding. www.al.com/news/2025/06...
Read Freely Alabama encourages Alabama librarians to seek legal advice if any Alabama government official uses this case to justify removing books outside of a courtroom.
