Letter to the editor: Book ban hypocrisy

It is curious that those who are most vocal about “parents’ rights” and keeping government out of parental decisions are the ones who want to ban books. They are asking government to do their job, abdicating their own responsibilities. If they don’t want their children to read something, why do they expect government to prevent the child from doing it? Isn’t that their job?

Also what about the majority of parents who don’t have objections to the banned books? Don’t they have any rights?

If you don’t like a book, don’t read it, and make sure your kid doesn’t read it. Don’t make those decisions for the rest of us.

Mary Beth Walling

North Huntingdon