The State - News from Feb. 7, 1986

The Alameda County Library Commission has overwhelmingly rejected a fundamentalist minister’s demand to remove from library shelves copies of “Show Me,” a sex education book he claims includes “explicit” child pornography. The commission, in turning down the Rev. Eric Smith of Dublin, reasserted a library policy giving children access to all books. An advisory body to the Alameda County Board of Supervisors, the commission voted 14 to 1 to spurn the censorship move and ask the board to endorse a “library bill of rights.” Smith, 22, said the book shows naked minors, some of whom “engage in sexual conduct.”