Citizens for Decency actively engages in advocacy efforts to protect families, defend religious liberty, and influence public policy in alignment with biblical values.
One of our most urgent initiatives has been exposing explicit and sexually inappropriate content found in public and school libraries. Through extensive research and documentation efforts, we identified numerous titles in school libraries containing graphic sexual material and adult themes inappropriate for minors.
Investigations into the Daviess County Public Library collections revealed books containing explicit sexual content, graphic nudity, abusive sexual acts, and other mature themes that are inappropriate for children and teens. A list of books, with links to evidence, can be found here. The Library is currently conducting their own audit and most of these titles should be moved to the Adult Section. Unfortunately they continue to add new, equally inappropriate titles to the Teen Section.
These discoveries became a defining turning point for our organization and directly inspired the creation of BookLens, and the Weekly Publishers Sweep and New Release Summary. Families needed tools that could quickly identify harmful content and provide trustworthy, values-aligned insight.
As our advocacy efforts gained attention, local media outlets and activist groups frequently mischaracterized our mission and positions. In response, our website became a critical hub for transparency, documentation, and direct rebuttal of misinformation.
Our Media Response section has become one of the most visited areas of our website because it provides citizens with original source material, detailed responses to public claims, policy analysis, and documented evidence connected to our advocacy work.
Rather than allowing false narratives to stand unchallenged, Citizens for Decency documents claims, publishes source-backed responses, and encourages citizens to examine the evidence for themselves.
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