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.”
It’s usually in the eye of the beholder I suppose. To this beholder I would say that civil disobedience implies resistance to an unjust law. Is this an unjust law? I don’t see any. I don’t even see a law they’re objecting too. I see them trying to remove books because they hate people that are different from them. They want to erase people from existence they don’t like. So no that’s not civil disobedience. That’s just the same horrendous despicable vile heinous hatred that these people do and have done for the better part of 2,000 years.
Stealing from a library should be a deadly sin like kicking a puppy or pineapple on a pizza.
It’s a fucked up state of affairs when people think putting pineapple on a pizza is worse than putting the secretions and flesh of vulnerable individuals who suffered cruelty and violence under atrocity on a pizza.
Look, if you weee to torture me for a couple years make sausage out of me then eat it, i might be annoyed.
If you were to make it trash wiyh pineapple, i would definitely be annoyed.
Copium disguised as humour.
Are you one of those people who tjinks you shouldn’t joke about horrible shit just because it’s horrible, but also cannot handle being in any way not a good person? Because im neither thing.
Theft, plain and simple. The only hope is that they actually read those books and learn something.
Maybe the library should raise and enforce their late-return-fees…
It’s also a criminal conspiracy.
We can only hope the judge sees it as such, too.
This tracks as shelbyville always advocated for cousin marriage, leading to the eventual rift with Jebediah Springfield.
Sue the church for damages, both physical and mental. It should cost them a lot to promote bigotry and hate.
Can’t it be both? No one ever said that civil disobedience is without consequences. The consequences here are that the people who stole the books have to pay for a new one and aren’t able to check out any more books. All they managed to do is take it out of the library’s collection for a little bit and increase the book’s sales by one.
So if I steal a song book from a church that is okay with them. Right?
Looks like those topics are incredibly popular! Replace the missing volumes and expand the section!
I’m not sure what the “or” is for. Acts of civil disobedience are generally illegal or close to it. This is theft and civil disobedience, though not one I agree with (nor do I think it would be particularly effective, tbh). But something being civil disobedience doesn’t make it not illegal or not wrong it’s just the reasoning behind doing it.
I think they are saying that civil disobedience is seperate from criminal disobedience. Which theft is criminal.
So protesting by standing on the sidewalk, civil disobedience; protesting in the middle of the street in a place with laws against, would be criminal disobedience.
In this case theft was clearly criminal.
Shelbyville? Seriously?
Go to their church, and borrow money from the collection tray without returning it
Just send a bill to the church for the books. If they don’t pay, you sue them.
Charge them late fees and use the funds to buy more copies. Make them required to have a debit card on file in order to check out more if they have more than 5 late books.
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.
@MicroWave The library should hit then with fines and interest for every day they aren’t returned.
Shocked by this. The pastor seems like a great guy with totally normal opinions.
Yeah… totally stable genus
What is with racists not understanding that their mixed race grandkids would probably look like their mixed race grandkids‽
Sounds like they’re this far --><-- away from honor killing their daughters.
I like how his handle is named after unstable material that is fun to watch violently explode when it’s bothered enough.
