A federal lawsuit is accusing Nassau County School officials of violating the First Amendment and Florida’s Sunshine Laws by removing dozens of books from public school libraries behind closed doors last year including the book “Tango Makes Three.”
FILE - A copy of the book"And Tango Makes Three" is photographed on a bookstore shelf in Chicago, Nov. 16, 2006. Months after access to the popular children's book about a male penguin couple hatching a chick was restricted at school libraries because of Florida's so-called Don't Say Gay law, a central Florida school district says it has reversed that decision.
The suit says back in September, a local representative of a group called Citizens Defending Freedom, or CDF, sent an email to the district requesting dozens of books be removed from the shelves.Among those they wanted off the shelves in Nassau County is, “.” According to an exhibit submitted by the plaintiffs, CDF said their concern is, “This book contains assumed alternate sexuality in animals.”
was removed wasn’t because it was prohibited by law for “depict or describ sexual conduct,” as the district found other books were, but for “lack of circulation.”“Our investigation has shown, first off, that the book was being checked out by students in the district, and also that there , you know, hundreds of other books in the Nassau County public library system that have not been checked out at all, or certainly that have been checked out less than ‘Tango,’ and yet they remain.
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