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Library News Round-Up

Library Board Chair Makes a Tiny Compromise

Under Threat Of Takeover, Fremont County Library Changes Sex Book Policies by Clair McFarland

The Fremont County Library Board, located in Wyoming, “ approved a handful of changes Wednesday during an emergency session.”

The County Commissioners threatened to replace the Library Board Chair with the Vice-Chair because the latter refused to handle challenged books in their community.

While it’s a small win for the community, they are still demanding that the challenger read the books (there are plenty of thoroughly reviewed books that don’t need to be read to be challenged).

The Board will then decide if the book stays or goes, rather than the Library Director. This puts the weight of the decision on the Board, but if the Board cannot act in a sane manner, then what’s next? This seems like a placating step by a weak Chair rather than a true step towards meeting the community standards in Fremont County.

Dangerous Republican Opposes Drag Queens

Village Council in Illinois Votes to Remove Only Republican Library Board Member Because “His Ideas are Unsafe” by Margaret Flavin

In a liberal community, they decided that a Republican was far too dangerous to have on a Library Board. This is where we are today. Because the progressives wanted to have this fight over books that contained child pornography, they were willing to upset communities that were liberal or conservative.

Because Nienburg opposed Drag Queens, he was booted off the Board. “As reported by Dupage Policy Journal, in 2022, Nienburg was the only board member who did not support a “drag queen bingo” event for children at the library featuring a male cross-dressing stripper.”

His opposition made him Dangerous. Well, I oppose such things, too. I’m dangerous, I guess.

Serious Tone about Libraries and their Obligation to Minors

The Culture War, the Library Bill of Rights, and the Protection of Minors by Michael Dudley.

Dudley writes a serious article about how Children aren’t being protected by the ALA’s policies and their Library Bill of Rights. It’s a serious article, academic in places, and his approach is to find a nuanced, evidence-based solution.

As a recovering evidence-based professional, I worry about reducing a child to terms with their cognitive state, but I do appreciate what he is attempting to do. If I had to choose between our current approach of all the porn and grooming we can inflict upon children as possible and his approach that understands children are harmed by this material, I would go with his approach.

He also argues that children are not rational adults capable of the freedoms associated with Free Speech or the consumption of materials related to Free Speech. Anyone who has raised a child or worked with a child knows they are working towards rationality, but it is something they haven’t achieved yet.

He notes in quoting other sources, “The authors define problematic sexual behaviors as

involv[ing] behaviors indicating sexual pre-occupation (e.g., asking persistent, repeated questions about sexuality), or sexual behaviors involving much younger children [as well as] use of aggression or coercion, sexual harassment or touching oneself in public (p. 2).

The authors stress that such content is now much more likely to be online than in print, but point to a paucity of existing research concerning younger children, and admit that the mechanism linking content exposure to PSB is unknown.”

Children aren’t blank slates that you can pour any type of knowledge into without causing harm. Look at a soldier on a battlefield and the knowledge that is poured into them by their experiences and the fact of how much older they are. We don’t want children to be soldiers of war when we know how hard it is for adults to handle it. Just because sex is pleasurable doesn’t mean a child can handle that information—especially as it comes from an adult who uses the child for their pleasure and not to improve the life of the child. A child can learn killing someone is pleasurable. We don’t think this is good information for them to have.

Read his whole article. It’s well-written and well-researched. It’s a good paper. I don’t know if his conclusion at the end will speak to most people, but maybe if he were to write the conclusion with an Ozarkian flair, it might work. 🤪

Our New State Religion

The 2024 Rainbow Book List by Isaiah West

It's time to celebrate the Good News. I think. Probably not. The American Library Association, those wonderful people who think about every minority through intersectionality, race, and perversion, has published its newest Rainbow book list.

A very good local research went through the list. I can report with PRIDE that our Comrades at Christian County Library have many of the books on the list.

CCL has 27 out of the 111 books on the list:

Preschool - 1 of 8 books

Early Elementary - 0 out of 14 books

Upper Elementary- 2 out of 15 books

Middle School - 1 out of 6 books

Young Adult - 23 out of 68 books

Librarians are our new Priests, and Libraries are our new Temples. We worship ourselves and our own perversions. If you don’t understand that the Rainbow Book List is our new Religious Text and Dogma, then you are missing the point of it.

Let’s Double Down on Bad Books Because it’s the Bad People’s Fault the Books Are Bad

The Vile Arts

There’s a revolution happening in children’s publishing—you can thank the book bans By Elizabeth Segran

This article is ridiculous. The whole argument is that because parents are upset that inappropriate material is in books, publishers, authors, and illustrators need to double down and produce more of these books. I kid you not.

“Smith says he’s more motivated than ever to keep working on issues that are important to him. “It fires me up to make more books about truth and history and justice for all,” he says. “I want to live in a country where there is diversity of thought.”

Smith isn’t alone. Publishers, writers, and progressive organizations across the children’s book industry aren’t letting the book bans hold them back. Instead, they’re turning the bans into a rallying cry to publish even more diverse characters and points of view. Indeed, over the last five years, there has been a steady increase in books by and about people of color. And people are finding creative ways to ensure these books get out into the world.”

They don’t care about the quality of the books. They only care about the diversity of the opinion.

Here’s a thought for an artist. I can give you inferior materials or tools to craft your work. Maybe if you are talented enough, it will work, and you will achieve something. However, what if I gave you the best materials to craft your work?

Now, before you think I mean something, I’m not saying there are certain ideas and certain concepts that lead to higher art and literature than others. Christian ideas have a higher worldview and create great art when they have been given a chance to suffer through the creative process. Pagan art can be beautiful in some regards, but very few atheistic writers have achieved anything as moving or as thoughtful as Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings. His worldview and ideas gave birth to the seminal and, in some ways, final work of fantasy. It will stand alone in its field of study for hundreds of years while others will come and go. Not because he preaches Christ but because he understands Christ.

When you try to create art without understanding who the original creator is, you will never achieve your best creative standards. They will always be playing with inferior tools and materials. Even people who were just cultural Christians created far greater works than what we see today out of our postmodern milieu of desperate nihilism. Everything stinks and smells of self-hatred and loathing. You call books like Gender Queer literature when it’s clear the author hates herself and her body. You lift up Flamer when the author clearly was abused and hated himself, and instead of triumphing over it, he succumbed to it.

Art is meant to do more than tell us how pointless life is and why we should just accept every perversion we have ever felt. Art should lift us out of the mud and place us on a marble plinth. Art should expose the created being inside all of us—loved by a God who hates how far we have fallen and wants to restore us to an abundant life.

Stop—for your own sake—glorifying the art that demeans you and turns you into an animal to be slaughtered on a demonic altar.