A local church is urging its members to permanently remove books from the Shelby County Public Library by checking them out and never returning them. The books portray gay characters and historical figures or explore LGBTQ+ themes.
Pamela Wilson Federspiel, who has been director of the library in downtown Shelbyville for 34 years, says the action is tantamount to “stealing.”
But three leaders of the Reformation Church of Shelbyville defend what they call an “act of civil disobedience.”
I’ve worked in libraries and this isn’t a new tactic. The funny thing to me is that the library will almost always rebuy the missing book unless they were planning on removing it anyway, so the net result is a signal to the publishers to print more LGBTQ books.
This is the butterfly flutter that brings about the first trans president and cements the USA as the queerest place on Earth, a country so gay that none dare challenge us.
please dear God I’ve never asked you for anything before and I’ll never ask for anything again but
I’ve worked in libraries
I hadn’t but it’s accurate. Weeding it’s essential to a good collection. Librarians do not want to keep copies of all books. We aren’t archivists.
So much for “Thou shalt not steal.”
But then, the most ardent believers do the most cherry picking with The Bible.
Even if they followed JESUS himself, they’d love God and then treat everyone else the way they would want to be treated.
Fake Christians, imho
(I’m an atheist)
Fake Christians, imho
Nah, these are real Christians. Don’t make their fallacious arguments for them.
Nope definitely fake. Take your anti-theisitic edgelord nonsense back to r/atheism if you wanna paint people with a broad brush
They need to change the name of the “no true Scotsman” fallacy to “no true Christian” as it makes a lot more sense these days…
You do realize that extremists are louder than the majority of the group right?
I was raised in the group, I am intimately aware of what they believe.
Again. I don’t care that you had a wacko creationist church when you were a kid. That’s not what most Christians believe
Source: Was also raised Christian and so were most people in Western Countries
I wonder how long it would take for them to cry foul if a group did the same thing for all of the Christian-themed books in the libraries…
Only one way to find out.
