A mom’s campaign to ban library books divided a Texas town — and her own family
Weston Brown had given up challenging his mother’s anti-LGBTQ beliefs. But that was before she started coming after library books.
GRANBURY, Texas — Weston Brown was scrolling through Twitter last month when he came across a video that made his chest tighten. It showed a woman at a school board meeting in North Texas, calling on district leaders to ask for forgiveness.
“Repentance is the word that’s on my heart,” she said near the start of the video.
For months, the woman in the clip had been demanding that the Granbury Independent School District ban from its libraries dozens of books that contained descriptions of sex or LGBTQ themes — books that she believed could be damaging to the hearts and minds of students. Unsatisfied after a district committee that she served on voted to remove only a handful of titles, the woman filed a police report in May accusing school employees of providing pornography to children, triggering a criminal investigation by Hood County.
Now, in the video that Weston found online, she was telling the school board that a local Christian pastor, rather than librarians, should decide which books should be allowed on public school shelves. “He would never steer you wrong,” she said.
The clip ended with the woman striding away from the lectern, and the audience showering her with applause.
Weston, 28, said his heart was racing as he watched and rewatched the video — and not only because he opposes censorship. He’d instantly recognized the speaker.
It was his mother, Monica Brown.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 14, 2022 8:12 PM
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[quote]the woman filed a police report in May accusing school employees of providing pornography to children, triggering a criminal investigation by Hood County.
If this turns out to be a lie - which it likely is - this woman needs to go to jail for this
| by Anonymous | reply 1 | August 11, 2022 1:42 PM
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Vote for Beto, those who can.
| by Anonymous | reply 2 | August 11, 2022 1:48 PM
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Poor guy, I hope he’s found a supportive circle of friends. His mother is mentally ill.
I’ve been through Granbury several times when I was younger, had some relatives buried in a cemetery in the 70’s. I remember they had an opera house that had some regard, which was an odd choice for a small town.
| by Anonymous | reply 3 | August 11, 2022 2:03 PM
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"Mom, if you keep up with this shit, you'll never even see — let alone meet — your grandchildren."
| by Anonymous | reply 5 | August 11, 2022 2:45 PM
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Lol, no gay man in his twenties opposes censorship. Cynical asshole that I may be, I think Weston takes after his Mama.
| by Anonymous | reply 6 | August 11, 2022 3:05 PM
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She seems like a massive cunt. You're better off without her
| by Anonymous | reply 7 | August 11, 2022 5:42 PM
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That same day, Monica sent him a message on Facebook to say that she was praying for dark forces to be cast out of him.
“I specifically come against evil that has entered you from the movie ‘It,’” she wrote, referring to the time when Weston, at around age 10, had watched part of the Stephen King mini-series about a murderous clown. “Clown demons have to go in the mighty name of Jesus.”
She ended the message, “I love you, Mom.”
Even if you weren't gay, who wants to deal with that level of insanity?
| by Anonymous | reply 8 | August 11, 2022 5:44 PM
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Anyone has any idea what oddball at r6 is trying to say? I missed all the times gay men in their 20s campaigned to have literature banned from the public lubrary.
| by Anonymous | reply 9 | August 11, 2022 5:47 PM
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Why is someone who has homeschooled her children allowed to have say on the public schools? Fuck outta here, bitch
| by Anonymous | reply 10 | August 11, 2022 5:51 PM
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They've always hated us. It's not "only about the trans" and never has been.
She got a fucking round of applause for what she said??? Take that in, fellow gays. Understand it.
THEY'VE ALWAYS BEEN PLANNING ON TRYING TO ERASE US GAYS. And now they're going for it more openly. They've always hated us, yet a bunch of you gay dipshits join in their scrum because you hate trans and think these bigots will treat you as "one of the good ones" when you're seen just as much as a disgusting sub-human pervert as they see the rest of us. You're helping them with their agenda, idiots.
| by Anonymous | reply 11 | August 11, 2022 5:56 PM
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Narcissistic parents enrage me.
“His love was abundant when it came to himself, but for his children it was limited.” That says it all.
| by Anonymous | reply 12 | August 11, 2022 6:00 PM
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This guy is sexy. Poor thing. Hateful mother.
| by Anonymous | reply 14 | August 14, 2022 7:36 PM
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He wants to feel me inside of him.
| by Anonymous | reply 15 | August 14, 2022 8:12 PM
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