Hopefully, it’s at least some form of ‘common’ knowledge that the public library system – just like nearly every other taxpayer supported organization promoting the humanities – has been thoroughly corrupted by the Left. I’ve known it for many years and even written about the gross and inappropriate books school libraries carry and teachers prescribe as reading assignments for their underage charges.
Consequently it was no surprise to see our conservative state think tank address the issue with a recent blog exposing our Metropolitan Library’s celebration of Pride Month.
After reading the piece and checking out the library’s ‘links’, I texted the blog URL to a Christian Friend (CF) who sits on a Library Commission.
Following is the abridged, paraphrased transcript of the conversation which ensued after I asked, “What are your thoughts?”:
CF: This is not something I would use, but all kinds of people pay property taxes to fund the library and the library will try to be all things to all people.
J: There are more citizens in the Christian community than the LBGTQ+ community in our state, so I can’t get behind this at all.
CF: You’re describing ‘mob rule’. I may not agree with everyone who walks through the doors but it’s their library too.
J: So, having stripper hour with live strippers and a pole is ok, or teaching kids how to cook meth is ok? Or Satanist hour…etc. You seem to be arguing that if tax dollars (the government/the state) provide the service, there is no standard for service because we must cater to everyone. Isn’t that the state prescribing a lifestyle? Why don’t libraries have Christianity hour, or Republican hour?
CF: That is hyperbole but yes, Christian/Republican time would be welcome. You should go to a Library Commission meeting and make your feelings known as a taxpayer.
J: Ok, but are you calling the stripper and meth suggestions hyperbole? Twenty years ago there wouldn’t have been discussion of ‘alternative’ lifestyles in a public library, and in 20 years - at the rate we’re going - we WILL be giving stripper and meth lessons for the same exact reasons you provided for drag queen story hour. It’s simple progression.
CF: Hyperbolic because both examples are unlawful for all or at least for children.
J: Homosexuality was illegal until 2003 in our state and we’re decriminalizing drug use rapidly. Again, it’s a progression – downhill until we reach free-for-all status. I think any notion to the contrary is, I’m sorry to say, naïve.
CF: So how far up the slippery slope should we want to stay? Homosexuality illegal? Pot illegal? Jim Crow laws? Prohibition? Slavery? There have always been good laws and there have always been bad laws.
I am going to assume someone else is best able to decide their own lives. And I want that same consideration. Freedom to do as I please. To do good and even fail. As long as my choices aren’t bothering anyone else.
J: There is evidence that the drag queen lifestyle is prompting parents to allow underage children to get sex change operations and become involved in a culture they’re not old enough to understand. There is much evidence to suggest that the drag queen/lgbtqr+ pushing is confusing children and hurting their chances to become whole adults. That is bothering someone else.
In addition, in the Bible, did the Kings who loved the Lord drive out Molech worship? Yes. Why? Because it took people away from the Lord and throwing babies into a fire was horrendously damaging to society.
As Christians, we should never stand by and allow people to injure themselves – or their families – psychologically and emotionally – whether it’s through drug addiction or marriage cheating, or what have you. We don’t have to stage an intervention if we don't feel led and we shouldn't withdraw our brotherly love, but we most certainly should not in any way be supportive of a 'sinful' (damaging) life choice.
No reply followed.
I truly do love CF, wo is well-read, intelligent, witty and wry. The only problem I have with CF is one I have with numerous Christian friends – it is as though their Christianity stops at society’s door jam – as though their Christianity is compartmentalized like a toolbox and there’s nothing in there they can use for anything they tend to distastefully refer to as ‘politics’.
So long as they love Jesus, study their Bible and help those in need, all is right with the world – there’s no reason to involve themselves in matters that could be contentious and unpleasant. Live and let live is the motto here.
This one thought process is the ultimate fulcrum upon which societies fail.
Even if one doesn’t spend much time studying the Old Testament because, ‘oh my gosh God is so mad all the time’, it’s instructive in many, many ways, none the least of which to point out that societal destruction has happened countless times over the eons of human existence and recovery happens only after the elements of society pitted against God’s basic covenants are no longer allowed to continue to ‘infect’ the society to death – as in burning human babies alive to appease a foreign deity.
In the New Testament, Jesus gave the people the Great Commission; to go out and make disciples of all the world. How in the world can anyone disciple anyone else in Christianity if there are no real actions that differentiate Christians from any other group of humans in a society?
How do you say, “Hey, join us, we get to do anything we want because Jesus loves us” - and in any way resemble one of Jesus’ most famous comments;
“If you are hated by the world, keep in mind that I was hated by the world before you. If you belonged to the world, the world would love you as its own. However, I have chosen you out of the world, and you don’t belong to the world. This is why the world hates you.” (John 15:18-25).
Why would the world hate Christians if Christians are not any different than those in the world around them - if they didn’t want to improve society by helping people understand what constitutes a life worth living? It wouldn’t. Obviously, Christians were meant to follow specific tenets and if we’re not standing on those specific tenets, we’re obviously not doing something right.
Even beyond the religious, however, there is the Constitutional concept that Government should not use taxpayer dollars to establish programming having nothing to do with basic government functions.
CF says “Christian/Republican time would be welcome” at the library. Not in my experience.
For about a year, a group of us held a Conservative gathering at our local library. Staff would lock the door to the room, ostensibly just so a librarian could glare at us when she came to unlock the room - they’d also move our dates around on the schedule and be rude when we called to schedule the room. So NO; Republican time was NEVER “welcome”.
But face it, one need only perform a rudimentary internet search to find egregious examples of ways in which the Left has flooded publicly funded arts programs with sexually deviant and heretical content all in the name of ‘free speech’ and ‘education’, so this shouldn’t be a surprise.
Why does it continue? Because citizens rarely pay attention and when they do, they either believe it’s not their business to wade into the ‘culture wars’, or they don’t want to take the time and effort to fight it. Consequently, our government has become quite comfortable propagandizing its own citizens using their own money.
I for one refuse to keep putting up with it because the more we ‘put up with it’ the worse it gets.
I’ll be writing a letter to my Library Commission and sending it out, but I’m also going to write a blog about it, distribute the information and have others write letters to the library commission expressing their displeasure with taxpayer produced ‘Pride Week’ activities. I might even get a group to attend a Library Commission meeting to express their concerns.
While I imagine the Library Commission will hate me for it – at least I’ll be in good company.
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