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Hope they enjoy their item replacement fees and collection agency reports, and not being able to use the library at all 'til all of that is resolved (no matter how much a fit they throw when they can't use the printers.) They'll still pay for the material with their taxes. They're paying for public unbiased access to information either way. We'll serve LGBTQIA+ books the same way we serve faith books the same way we serve Bill O'Reilly's slop and tomes of questionable fad diets and endless ghostwritten hackjob murder mysteries. For free. For everyone.

Their loss if they wanna stay dumb and mad.

Pretty sure God's not big on stealing stuff that ain't yours, too. These "churches" are cults of lost, confused, angry children, and I pray they find their brains somewhere along the way.

Thanks for supporting your local libraries, especially as we're under siege from so many angles every single day.

---With love, a library employee (also a Christian)

Sue the church for damages, both physical and mental. It should cost them a lot to promote bigotry and hate.

These dumbfucks need real hobbies.

Yeah, so when you take something that isn't yours and don't give it back. That's theft.

Of course religious freaks are going to create their own reality in which theft isn't theft. They're pros at creating alternate realities when it benefits them.

These are criminals not only committing theft, but also a hate crime.

So if I steal a song book from a church that is okay with them. Right?

Uhh so if somebody did the same for books about conversion therapy? Would they still consider it civil disobedience or does that become an attack on "freedom of religion."

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.

I've worked in libraries and this isn't a new tactic. The funny thing to me is that the library will almost always rebuy the missing book unless they were planning on removing it anyway, so the net result is a signal to the publishers to print more LGBTQ books.

This ultimately just leads to more sales of the book they hate when the library has to replace it.

Imagine doing shit like this and thinking history will remember you fondly.

“Are we the baddies?”

I wonder how long it would take for them to cry foul if a group did the same thing for all of the Christian-themed books in the libraries...

It’s not civil disobedience if the root of the action is hate. It’s just expressions of hate and repression

So much for “Thou shalt not steal.”

But then, the most ardent believers do the most cherry picking with The Bible.