Parents were outraged when they learned their library in Batavia, Ill., links its computers to Planned Parenthood's teen Web site. They have formed a coalition and are calling for the link to be removed.
Parent Kerry Knott complained to the library director after discovering the link.
“This is horrible stuff," she said. "It promotes birth control, sexual activity (and) makes a joke of abstinence. It mocks parents and makes us out to be idiots."
She and about 60 other parents took their case to the library board recently. Knott claims they were cut off early by the board.
“We the people, the taxpayers who fund the libraries, are no longer in control of the libraries," Knott said.
LeAnna Benn, an abstinence instructor and executive director of Teen Aid, said: "When I read about the case, I was not surprised because the American Library Association has teamed up with Planned Parenthood on a regular basis to promote 'comprehensive' sex education.”
She said "comprehensive" sex education really should be called "condom-promotion education."
“The premise is that everyone is sexually active and needs to have access to services," she said, "regardless of what their values are, regardless of what their parents believe.”
The Batavia Library Board continued the public hearing on the issue to its next board meeting July 15.
