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.”
That’s actually really funny.
I can’t believe what goes through these people’s minds.
Charge them for the full replacement value of the book, and then replace the book with 3 copies.
I didn’t really read this, but it might not be that simple.
Most libraries will actually let you check out books “indefinitely,” as long as you come back and renew every once in awhile.
If this church is splitting up checking out these books among different members, then it would be very difficult for a library to properly detect and enforce restrictions on them.
Even if the library could identify these people and put methods in place to stop them from what they’re doing, it would still be a hassle and the church could be happy with just inconveniencing the ‘liberal’ library.
Don’t forget the late fees. So late fees + full replacement value, to easily fund the 3 copies.
Nuke the nazis from orbit
It’s the only way to be sure.
Wow these LGBT books are flying off the shelves! We should buy a lot more of them!
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.
Go to their church, and borrow money from the collection tray without returning it
There’s a nice wall over there perhaps some of these people would like to lean on it. And then I have these exciting pieces of lead I wish to introduce them to
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.
Uncivil disobedience
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.
The religious… Always willing to break the law
And always willing to punosh others with it.
Typical Shelbyville.
This is what inbred cousin marriage does to a town.
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?
Replied to wrong comment?
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.
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.
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.
