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Public libraries are intended to be taxpayer-sponsored facilities for the education of our citizens—children as well as adults: a place for reflection and for gaining knowledge.  
At least, that's the way they were when I was growing up.
Maybe not so much anymore. Lately, they seem to have been commandeered for other purposes.
That was the conclusion I drew from an email I received from Aaron Miller of Columbia, Tennessee, a city of about 40,000 people that’s slightly over an hour south of Nashville. 
It’s largely farm country and would seem to be in the American heartland, where traditional values reign. But Miller—a county commissioner (Columbia is the seat of Maury County) and an Air Force veteran who served in Afghanistan—was telling me something quite the contrary....