Libraries:

• Voluntary attendance

• No required reading lists

• Religious texts from most faiths, and books about those religions

Schools:

• Penalties for both parents and students for attendance issues

• State-mandated curriculums

• Literally just ten rules from the Old Testament

It's not a political response to anything, it's a fear-based, lizard-brain reaction to it being broadly socially acceptable for queer people to exist. Decades of hate- and fearmongering, indoctrination, and tribalism caused this, not the mere existence of queer people in public.