'I\'d rather be fired for upholding the First Amendment instead of sued for violating it,' librarian Patty Hector said.
An Arkansas county librarian who was fired last month over her refusal to enforce a book ban is saying that those who targeted her were motivated by bigoted and fascistic viewpoints.after the Saline County Quorum Court passed a resolution to remove books deemed inappropriate from the children’s section. Hector refused to remove the books, noting that doing so would effectively “erase people of color and marginalize LGBTQ people.” In response to her stance, she was terminated.
“I’d rather be fired for upholding the First Amendment instead of sued for violating it,” she explained. “They were not library patrons who happened to find a book they didn’t like. They had lists,” Hector said. She noted that the complainers were inconsistent in their logic, seeking to ban books that had LGBTQ or racial themes over supposed sexual content, but refusing to do the same for heterocentric media.
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