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To be clear they are making some noise about how Utah's book banning laws should be expanded to include mini free "take a book/leave a book" libraries set up on private property. There is no way a law like that would be upheld in court.
I think the sad part is that any of this even exists at all. If you don't like a book, don't read it. That's all...no need to ban anything just because it offends your fragile ego.
Isn’t Utah the one where they banned their own religious texts? Hurt itself in confusion.
Their god is so weak that he needs humans to…checks notes…stop people from sharing ideas.
The Church of Latter Day Saints can't die fast enough tbh.
I think it goes by the Mormon church now
So someone could put a banned book in their neighbors little library and get them criminally charged? Like the whole point of those is so people can leave and take books.
Would be a shame if someone could just shut down neighbourhood charity like that, if this discouraged even having these libraries, if the free exchange of thoughts beyond the control of those who don't want their supremacy challenged was hamstrung like that...
Fucking assholes. This is why can't have nice things: Because someone will inevitably ruin it for others to compensate their own misery.
That's the goal. They don't want anyone to be able read, learn, see, or think about anything that is contradictes their narrative/world view. These are the death rattles of a dying ideology. (Conservative and neo-liberal)
They will become more violent and ravenous as time goes on. I just hope the science and rational thinkers win out before the conservatives and Neo-Liberals drive humanity off the cliff.
Don't worry everyone it's Utah, the LDS church will take care of everyone, after all they have a great track record of not discriminating against people /s
There is no evil like conservative ChristoFascist ideology.
I would talk to a lawyer about a message on the outside of the library, something like
“by stepping onto this property and examining the contents of this library, you and anyone you communicate the contents of this library to will automatically and irrevocably indemnify and hold blameless the maintainers of this library.”
Utah: Wear our special underwear, pay our special sky daddy his tithe, obey unquestionably, and go fuck yourselves.
Mormans are the Scientologists of the boomers.
Next up on the chopping block: joy.
just put a book of mormon in it.