Alarm as Tennessee libraries shut down for Republican 'book purge'

[AZJonnie]

11. How long are they shutting down for?

I mean, maybe for a few days so staff could focus on conducting an audit and doing the physical (and online) removals, but I can't imagine that shut down is synonymous with permanent closure in this context. I hope not, anyway.

Religious zealots sure are dedicated though, I'll give them that. No matter HOW MANY times their made-up-fairy-tale "beliefs" run square into the brick wall of demonstrable facts and evidence, they double-down on the illogic and stupidity

In the case at hand, such people desperately want to believe that LGTBQ+ people are somehow "created by evil elements of society", which are of course particularly prevalent in whatever era/area they currently exist within (no matter where or when that is/was). Cause, ya know, surely GAWD wouldn't have "created" the very people they're inclined to hate. They must be a creation of "corrupt, evil humans" or "Satan" or whatnot, and if we just could remove all mention of such people from writings, or adopt a position as a society that their existence is verboten, these people who's existence flies in the face of their rather arbitrarily determined "faith" would simply cease to exist.

Nevermind that there's some fairly compelling evidence that King James was homosexual, and obviously if such individuals didn't exist at the time their "holy book" was written, the idea would never be addressed even once-per-Testament (ergo they're clearly not unique to current, US society). They're happy to find any pathetic excuse to justify their hate and discrimination that "works", I suppose