In a fiery and at-times unruly meeting that stretched late into the night, councillors shouted and members of the public were ejected.
In a fiery and at-times unruly meeting that stretched late into Wednesday night, Cumberland City Council voted 12-2 to rescind the May 1 earlier decision to ban such titles.
"Rainbow families are part of all our communities," she said, referring to same-sex or LGBTQ-parented families. "Cumberland City Council is a very multicultural community and we deserve a voice and those residents that have come to me have come from all over," he told the meeting. Councillor Mohamad Hussein, who earlier said he would vote against the push on religious grounds, ended up supporting the change.
Life-long Cumberland resident Alexa Kapust, who said she was there representing the LGBTQI+ community, said she didn't worry about her four-year-old daughter seeing sexual content in the kids' section because the books there were age appropriate. Federal One Nation MP Craig Kelly was one of the few public speakers to voice opposition to the resolution, saying the book should be in the general section of the library.
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