The debate over whether to pull $27,000 worth of funding from the Lancaster Public Library comes after a planned Drag Queen Story Hour.
Supervisors in a Lancaster County township are expected to talk about whether to pull funding from the Lancaster Public Library.The discussion will happen during an East Hempfield Township meeting on Wednesday evening.The debate over whether to pull $27,000 worth of funding from the library comes after a planned Drag Queen Story Hour.Republican supervisors have said it's inappropriate for taxpayer dollars to go toward politics.
'If we hear from them that they understand this is a political issue, that they shouldn't have weighed in on it and that they're going to remain politically neutral, non-partisan, apolitcal, I think we can have a discussion about funding them,' supervisor Scott Wiglesworth said.'It seems like this whole topic started over a disagreement over one specific reading at the library.
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