Sean Prophet writes about a local woman getting the WPB school board to ban books that she’s never read based on her own personal beliefs. That’s right, beliefs. She’s on public record as having never read any of the books cover-to-cover but I’m going to guess it’s more than that, she’s probably never read any of them at all. She pretty much proves this when she met with the school board’s superintendent about it and couldn’t recite blasphemous passages or page numbers even though she’s required to provide sufficient proof to back up the complaint.
She wants 80 books on topics such as homosexuality, atheism, abortions, and even a book about Richard the Lionheart pulled from the shelves. Yep, she wants a book based on the trials of a noble and respected king, who also happened to be deeply pious, to be banned because she’s not even read the thing. I can imagine that right now, this woman is the laughing stock of her subdivision because she’s clearly displayed her own ineptitude and lack of sense in a very public way. Funny how I bet she skipped over all the books on demonology or the shady past of the Vatican because they have some religious roots. Next week will she want newspapers running recent stories of pastors charged with sodomizing and molesting children pulled from local newsstands because it casts a negative light on her fellow Christians in their time of backsliding. Or what about pastors that fraud and steal from generous contributors?
Not one to aid in his mother’s misguided plight is her atheist son whom she conjectures that he think she’s “pretty stupid.” I’m guessing he isn’t the only one based on this aberrant display of public foolishness. I don’t go to libraries and complain that they have Bibles, Korans, or Torahs on the shelves and demand they be pulled because I’m not the arbiter and controller of knowledge and feel that people are free to read whatever they want. Maybe that’s something she’ll learn too. But somehow, you know, I really doubt that. She’ll probably try and take this to the local court.
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