Book challenge history.

Ran across this in an article about a controversial pastor who is up for promotion in Dallas:

Under continued pressure from Jeffress and his followers, the council passed an ordinance in February of 1999 that allowed a group of library patrons numbering at least 300 to petition for books they found objectionable to be removed from the children’s area and placed in the adult section.

Critics of the ordinance noted that 300 people were being allowed to decide what was in the best interest of the city’s 100,000 residents.

The books that caused all the squawking?  Heather Has Two Mommies and Daddy's Roommate.

The next year, the ordinance was struck down as unconstitutional.