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.”
Bill them fees. Then take them to court when they don’t pay and if they do pay use the money to buy more of the books. These are fools that are used to being milked like cattle…use it for good.
Not if. Heil hydra, replace each stolen copy with two more.
The religious… Always willing to break the law
And always willing to punosh others with it.
There are two groups here. One wants to be allowed to live their lives in peace and one wants to control you. The press and the ones that want to control you you have twisted it and it’s infuriating.
Cause the press is afraid of not being able to talk to the ones that want to control you, So they double up by covering up/slanting stories that are critical of the controllers while punching down at everyone else…
Then, like good dogs, they look up at the controllers, panting and satisfied with themselves, begging for masters affection.
That’s theft. There’s nothing CIVIL about trying to erase the presence of a particular group of people from society …
No theft is cool. This is religious censorship and the precursor to an extermination campaign. They’ll kill us if we dont stop them.
How is theft from public institutions, which keep getting funding cuts, considered cool?
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Nope.
It’s a direct response to what you said. Not sure why you would think otherwise.
It does not seem to follow or engage with what i was saying.
You: No theft is cool.
Me: How is theft cool?
You: how is this related to what I said?
Are you illiterate?
I was ae&<ing that this is not th… Never mind, sure, yes, i hate libraries and kittens.
Wow these LGBT books are flying off the shelves! We should buy a lot more of them!
The way to fight this is easy. Offer to buy new library copies. Eventually they’ll run out of people without overdue books.
Burning or disposing of the books will also generate bad press because it associates them with their kindred spirits: Nazis and church censors.
I was gonna say start taking pews out of their church until the books come back, but buying new books works, too.
Or just hang around till the offering plate comes by and then help yourself to money to rebuy books.
Civil disobedience often comes with the cost of breaking the law and enduring the consequences.
You may not agree with their non violent protest but as long as they suffer the consequences, I’m okay with it.
Just tell me where to donate to replace the books so they can accrue more punishment.
Typical Shelbyville.
This is what inbred cousin marriage does to a town.
If it’s religious, yeah, it’s theft. These assholes happily break every commandments they have “in the name of Christ”
Why is it always always the religious that really truly fuck everyone else over?
I’m at the point where if someone claims to be religious that I’m just assuming they’ll rape their children because chances are big that they do.
It takes religion to make a good man do terrible deeds.
Mankind will never be free until the last politician is strangled with the robes of the last priest
Mankind will never be free until the last politician is strangled with the
robesentrails of the last priestYou’re right, I went from memory and got it wrong
I figured you just saw some sanitized version somewhere. I remember getting called psychotic for posting that quote in the other place.
I should put that on a tshirt.
Hope they enjoy their item replacement fees and collection agency reports, and not being able to use the library at all 'til all of that is resolved (no matter how much a fit they throw when they can’t use the printers.) They’ll still pay for the material with their taxes. They’re paying for public unbiased access to information either way. We’ll serve LGBTQIA+ books the same way we serve faith books the same way we serve Bill O’Reilly’s slop and tomes of questionable fad diets and endless ghostwritten hackjob murder mysteries. For free. For everyone.
Their loss if they wanna stay dumb and mad.
Pretty sure God’s not big on stealing stuff that ain’t yours, too. These “churches” are cults of lost, confused, angry children, and I pray they find their brains somewhere along the way.
Thanks for supporting your local libraries, especially as we’re under siege from so many angles every single day.
—With love, a library employee (also a Christian)
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Shame on you.
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Yes, I can tell you don’t value them, or the hard work of librarians and enrichment of other readers.
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Chill yourself. A stranger online disapproves of your actions and said something to try and get you to change your behavior. Take the L and give their books back.
Return them. Give someone else the chance to enjoy them too.
My library doesn’t charge late fees for children’s books, but does for other books.
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Bruh.
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So if I steal a song book from a church that is okay with them. Right?
Uhh so if somebody did the same for books about conversion therapy? Would they still consider it civil disobedience or does that become an attack on “freedom of religion.”
I think it would be funnier to checkout copies of the bible and highlight ezekiel 23:20 before returning it.
These dumbfucks need real hobbies.
Too many people don’t have a life. I keep getting stalked by a neighbor because I smoke weed when I walk the dog at night. I got the weed 5 minutes away from home at a new dispensary… they don’t have a personality besides oppressing others.
Civil disobedience and “petty crime” aren’t mutually exclusive. It is integral to civil disobedience that laws are broken. Also there is probably a difficulty and lots of legal debate about when violating a civil contract, borrowing an item for a specified time, becomes theft of the item by not returning it.
I think non of these should be the question here though. It is simply a dick move.
That’s actually really funny.
I can’t believe what goes through these people’s minds.
