OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) – After a complaint about children’s books with gay and lesbian content, a library commission has decided to place youth material of a sensitive nature in a special collection in the adult section.

Members of the Metropolitan Library Commission voted 10-7 to place such “easy, easy-reader and tween” books dealing with “sensitive or controversial topics” into a special collection that only will be accessible by “adults in authority.”

In public comments before the vote, Richard Harris held open a book he said was from the library’s young adult section and displayed a page with rows of nude figures.

“Do you want your kids looking at this without you being there?” Harris said.

Mike Canfield, representing the American Civil Liberties Union, urged the commissioners to “honor the library system’s long-standing tradition of free access to knowledge.”

The commission didn’t decide at the hearing how librarians would enforce such a plan and also did not rule on which books would be in this adults-only section. Instead, they voted to form a committee to make those choices.

The policy is the commission’s response to a complaint lodged by a patron in April that young children had access to library books with gay themes.

The patron’s complaint triggered a number of petitions from community members asking that “books having homosexual and other inappropriate age-related sexual content be moved from the children’s section of the library and placed in the adult section.”

Specific books criticized were King & King, Daddy’s Roommate, The Duke Who Outlawed Jelly Beans and Heather Has Two Mommies.

Executive Director Donna Morris said the library system’s staff would do its best to comply with the commission decision.

According to the policy, selection of the books to be placed in this section will be decided by a committee of commission members using guidelines reflecting “good judgment and community standards” and input from the library’s staff.