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.