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I believe you. I am a homeschool mom and I quit using the public library years ago when we found a book in the juvenile section about witches and it showed them in all sorts of sexual positions and how to cast spells and things that I am ashamed to say. I put it down after 3 pages and came home and washed my hands. We do have a large number of people out there who do worship satan. We do not like to think so. Our governments and all arenas have been infiltrated with them . We never use the library.There are also a large amount of lesbians there. We call it the withch house.

Catholic, my group is attempting to get public libraries to comply with existing law. We expose all kinds of things about libraries. We expose outrageous statements by library leaders. But I can say that so long as you review each book to be read by the child, remain with your child 100% of the time, even in the bathrooms, go during peak hours -- not late at night around closing time, and stay away from the Internet computers and printers, there is an almost 100% chance that you can appropriately protect your own child in your own way while still enjoying your public library.

And not all libraries are so bad as you say. Look around and find ones that are interested in protecting children instead of protecting the ALA. There are some, and my group congratulates them when we find out about them.

Basically, look at your library's policies. If they follow the ALA Library Bill of Rights, then you better raise your deflector shields really high around your children. If, on the other hand, all computers are filtered, adult and children, and all filters are used in accordance with the law, not automatically disabled in accordance with the ALA's efforts to defy the law, then you can lower your defense shields somewhat.

I see you are unusually protective of your child. That's fine. But if you maintain your unusual protectiveness in a public library that complies with the law or that filters all computers even if they do not have to comply with the law, you and your child should still be able to benefit from the public library experience.

Honestly, even in the very worst libraries, bad things happening to children are relatively rare, but they happen often enough that people had to make a law and the US Supreme Court had to decide a case to protect children in public libraries. Just go to a library like I described and keep your eagle eye open for anything and you should be relatively okay.

Go ahead, go back into a public library with your child and see if I am right. Let us all know here what you found out.