I find it very sad that both the library and the ACLU need to be reminded of how a representative republic (i.e. the United States) works. Congress passes a bill, the president signs the bill and the Supreme Court rules on the bill if it is controversial. In the case of library filters all three things have happened and all three branches of government have had their say. It seems to me that the will of the public has been done and yet many public libraries seem to have a problem both understanding that will as well as acting on it.
Maybe it would be simpler to make a comparison to a normal business. If a video store played a pornographic movie on its video system or a bookstore placed pornography out where anyone walking by would see it they would most certainly be sued and they would probably be ticketed by the police. Yet in the public library it is more important to allow those who would look at pornography in public (hopefully a small minority) this so-called right while denying those who came to use the library for its primary purpose (reading and research) their right to not have pornography forced upon them.
The will of the people or the public seems obvious in this case as the bill passed Congress with significant support from both sides of the political aisle and has made its way through the process as laid out in the Constitution. It is too bad that it only takes a few people in the wrong places to stop that will from being implemented.
Everett
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