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.”

  • billwashere@lemmy.world
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    1 day ago

    Stealing from a library should be a deadly sin like kicking a puppy or pineapple on a pizza.

    • Jerkface (any/all)@lemmy.ca
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      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.

      • outhouseperilous@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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        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.