A Kansas town has renewed the lease for its public library after months of debate over LGBTQ materials. The City Commission in St. Marys, northwest of Topeka, has voted to extend the lease for its Regional Library for another year.
City leaders had threatened not to renew the lease unless the library removed all LGBTQ, or socially divisive books, from its shelves. One commissioner had also proposed removing any book dealing with critical race theory. Commissioners said an outpouring of community support for the library prompted them to extend the lease.
