The Probulator

Just in time to close out Banned Books Week a christian conservative group complains that librarians are “banning” books that present their “side” of the homosexuality “issue”.  When you look closer, you find that the librarians are evaluating all their books by certain standards and these aren’t passing.  Little things like poor scholarship, dodgey research, etc… are keeping them out of the libraries.

Since the conservative groups are buying these books and donating them, I say they should be accepted.  Please, spend all your money and donate them to every library in the country.  The message is weak and these books only preach to the choir.  Their best use is for freedom loving people (liberals) to use them as resources to discredit the faulty ideas they contain.  They won’t have to spend their own money to do this.

What can be better than for the conservatives to finance their own downfall?

Tags: Banned Books Week, Literature, Politics, Religion, censorship, conservatives by Dean
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As a prelude to Banned Books Week next month, we have the tale of a heroic librarian defending a children’s story from the wishes of a religious homophobe’s attempts to suppress it. Of course a rational defense is never the end of something like this. A second person complained and stated there are 100 more ready to stand up for censorship.

As usual, those who cannot adequately defend their position through reason must make a competing information unaccessible. Censorship is always a sign of a weak message.

Banned Books Week draws attention to those who feel it necessary to impose their views on others by making messages they disagree with unavailable. Read a banned or challenged book today!

Tags: Banned Books Week, Homophobia, censorship, public libraries by Dean
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