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.”

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    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.

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    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.

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      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.

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    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

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

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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.

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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.

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    That’s theft. There’s nothing CIVIL about trying to erase the presence of a particular group of people from society …

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    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…

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    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.

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    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