Montana Leaves Marxist-Led American Library Association

Article publisher: 
Intellectual Takeout
Article date: 
27 July 2023
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National News
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The Montana State Library Commission voted to cut all ties with the American Library Association (ALA), citing as its primary concern the national body’s newly elected Marxist president.

Voting 5–1 with one member abstaining, the commission approved a letter to be sent to the ALA that states, “Our oath of office and resulting duty to the Constitution forbids association with an organization led by a Marxist.”As the oldest and largest library association

in the world with over 50,000 members, the ALA has been lurching leftward for decades, a fact no longer able to be disguised when it elected a self-described “Marxist lesbian” as its new president last April...