Dear Editor,

This is in regards to the February 16 article in the Sun-Courier [and North Tama Telegraph] about the public library legislation.

By the way people talk, you would think the proposed library bill seeks to ban libraries, when it only gives city councils the *option* of exercising oversight. Why is there so much opposition to the public library being held accountable to the public? Do we forget that “public” simply means “of the people?” If the people’s library is going to take the people’s money (taxes), they should be held accountable by the people’s representatives (city council). Taxation requires representation. Who else would do it? Is a Library Director like a judge, that it needs to be above the fray of the political process? Certainly not. Perhaps there was a time when we could simply trust librarians to do the apolitical work of book curation and story-time, but if they are insistent on stocking their shelves with progressive ideology and pornography, the people have a right to take their library back.

Pastor Seth Hedman

Garwin, Iowa