A troubled library in western Michigan that was targeted by residents who don’t like LGBTQ material on its shelves has been shut down after the failure to renew a property tax millage.
After Tuesday’s general elections, the millage renewal vote that defeated Patmos Library in Jamestown Township near Grand Rapids resulted in the loss of 84% from its annual budget of $245,000 to Patmos Library.
The Ottawa County Clerk’s Office has not yet released official results but they indicate that 55.8% of voters opposed the 10-year millage proposal.
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It was also defeated in August’s primary due to a campaign against LGBTQ materials stored in the library’s stacks.
After Tuesday’s general elections, most of the funding for a Michigan library was cut. Jamestown Conservatives is a conservative Christian group that tried to persuade residents to vote “no” on the library’s millage, as the library has LGBTQ books.
Larry Walton, President of Patmos Library Board of Trustees, stated that 90 of the 67,000 materials in circulation could be “relative to LGBTQ.”
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Jamestown Conservatives, a conservative Christian group, asked residents to vote no on the millage. They cited concerns that the library was “grooming children” with explicit material that contained LGBTQ themes.
Others supported the library’s millage.
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“We are very upset that the community doesn’t want support the library. We’re Americans. Jay Milkamp, a retired school teacher and library patron Jay Milkamp said that they recognize freedom of speech. I have read 67,000 books from this library. Ninety percent of these books are objectionable. That’s not a reason to vote against the millage, I believe.”
