A Texas public library can't remove books simply because they discuss topics like "butts and farts," a federal judge wrote last week in a majority opinion of a lawsuit over controversial library books. Because of disagreement between a panel of federal judges, however, the books will remain removed, while other challenged books on race and sexuality will be returned to library shelves.*
The case is one of the more bizarre instances of library censorship in recent years, but it nonetheless led to a decisive option from the majority, who found that it is unconstitutional to remove library books out of a "desire to limit access to ideas with which they [disagree]."
