Two protesters offended by a Pride exhibit at the Rancho Peñasquitos Library have checked out nearly all the books in the display and vowed to keep them until the library eliminates what they call “inappropriate content” for children.
The anti-gay protest is the latest example of a growing national backlash against Pride exhibits, which experts say has been fueled by debates over how schools and healthcare systems should handle transgender minors.
The Rancho Peñasquitos protest ratchets up the usual backlash San Diego library branches experience when they create Pride exhibits or host events like drag queen story times, said head librarian Misty Jones.
“It’s gotten progressively worse in the last five years,” Jones said Wednesday. “This is definitely a new one for us.”
The protesters, Peñasquitos residents Amy Vance and Martha Martin, said libraries are open, public spaces for children that should be free of references to gender identity and how adults experience sexual attraction….
Councilmember Marni von Wilpert, whose district includes Rancho Peñasquitos, said she is working with nonprofit and civic groups to raise enough money to quickly replace the 14 books the protesters checked out.
They include The New Queer Conscience by Adam Eli, Rainbow Parade by Emily Neilson, Gay Rights by Tina Kafka, Goldenboy by Michael Nava, Wild Things by Karin Kallmaker and Pride: An Inspirational History of the LGBTQ+ Movement by Stella Caldwell.
From the San Diego Union-Tribune
There’s an all out war against the innocence of children! Pray the Rosary each day as families to protect our children.
A nice book burning is in order.
And that’s how you do that. Power to the parents!
Stealing is a sin. We cannot support that.
It is no sin to disarm an unjust agressor.
If you are just doing it to steal the gun, it is.
If an unjust aggressor is pointing a gun at you, taking it away is for safety and life, not theft. And, that would be better than using one’s lawfully owned firearm with lethal force.
“Try that in a small town. I recommend you don’t.”
Jason, the good ol boys love your little hoop earrings.
Nobody who wrote that song is from a small town and it shows.
Neither is Jason Aldean.
But it kind of fits with city slickers fantasies of what small town America is like.
Maybe not but it is a sin to bear false witness.
It’s not stealing. It’s checking out a book and holding onto it past the due date, incurring fines along the way.
Where do people learn their morals?
Well, there’s some kids who are not going to learn from evil books.
You haven’t proven your assertion that what they are doing is stealing. The library exists so that patrons may borrow books. They borrowed books. They are holding them past the due date. As long as they pay the fines they incur for returning the books late, they are not sinning nor stealing since they are abiding by the terms of the contract. If they destroyed or defaced the books, that would be sinful. They are not committing sin because they are acting in accord with the contract between library and patron. Jesus called it being as shrewd as a serpent.
They have returned the books so that is good.
Borrowing something with no intention to return it or with an intention to return it only if the person does X, Y ,Z is not a moral behavior. You may bicker over whether it is stealing.
It is dishonest.
Yes, like a serpent.
“You may bicker over whether it is stealing.
It is dishonest.
Yes, like a serpent.”….is stealing worse or better than corrupting youth?
Checking books out at a library is not a sin. YFC, how is it “bearing false witness?”
Checking a book out is not stealing. Not returning it is. If you can keep the book checked out indefinitely by having other people check it out when it’s returned, that is not stealjng, either.
It’s gotten to the point where I assume someone wearing a gay rainbow logo is either mentally ill or evil.
It does not mean you are mentally ill, evil or even gay.
It used to be anybody with a Rosary was Catholic. Not anymore.
Things spread and people who like them, use them.
Some people call it cultural appropriation and complain.
Or both!
Abuse the dog relentlessly and then whine and yelp when it finally bites…spare us…
Oh, Oh, the happy faces, and the rainbow colors on the children’s gay literature. And the reality: (from CDC)
CDC recommends sexually active gay and bisexual men get tested for:
HIV at least once a year;
Syphilis;
Hepatitis B;
Hepatitis C based on risk factors;
Chlamydia and gonorrhea of the rectum if you’ve had receptive anal sex (been a “bottom”) in the past year;
Chlamydia and gonorrhea of the penis if you have had insertive anal sex (been a “top”) or received oral sex in the past year;
Gonorrhea of the throat if you’ve performed oral sex (i.e., your mouth on your partner’s penis, vagina, or anus) in the past year;
Sometimes, your healthcare provider may suggest a herpes test.
If you are sexually active (and non-exclusive) you and your partners need to get tested for these things as your frequency of contact and behavior indicate.
STDs are rising at a phenomenal rate.
Many people have no symptoms.
Women who have more than one partner are told by good healthcare providers to get pap smears for cancer and STD tests more often too, as promiscuous men and women are more likely to get every kind of STD. Heterosexuals were less likely to get anal and colon cancer but that has probably gone up now with all the decadence.
Amy Vance and Martha Martin should sue for damages. Their privacy was violated by the Misty Jones librarian.
Did you know that now there’s Gay Water that you can buy and drink?
And, we already had a trans beer.
It would be better for them to be thrown into the sea with a millstone tied around their neck than to cause one of these little ones to stumble.
And, Jesus was quite serious when He said that.
May they repent before it’s too late.
Many translations of the Bible say “put a stumbling block.” Some say lead astray.
It was the verse I was thinking of when we were talking about Outreach.
It is possible for one person to cause another to stumble by being too lenient and another by being too strict.
Best to stick with the Church and not go off on our own on these things.
Treat all people with respect and love.
If God wants you to help them spiritually, He will prompt you.
This story is a month old.
Here is the results of their actions:
“Stacks” of Amazon boxes began to pour into the building as people from around the nation replaced the stolen books – including ones that the system didn’t have already. Thousands of dollars in donations were raised for the library, and the city pitched in with an extra $30,000 to help expand the offerings and programming further – including the drag queen story hour, a particular target for rightwing prudes.
After public condemnation and realizing their plan had backfired, the two women returned the books to the library. They’re currently avoiding the media and have no comment on how their plan blew up in their faces.
This is from LGBTQnation but there is a story on NYTimes that I cannot get to on it as well.
In all people donated $45,000 to support library’s LGBTQ offerings.
That’s a lot of gay books. Maybe they’ll start piping gay water into the drinking fountains too.
No one believes your inflated figures. The left is notorious for lying about such things.
From a source named boingboing which quotes yahoonews quoting the New York Times:
Roughly 180 people, mostly San Diegans, gave more than $15,000 to the library system, which after a city match will provide more than $30,000 toward more LGBTQ-themed materials and programming, including an expansion of the system’s already popular drag queen story hours.
So it may be that the number $45,000 was inflated. Only $30,000 can I verify.
The poster named OH WELL posted by far the best most useful comment on this thread. Often we conservatives like to cheer and even gloat when we discover a tactic such as the people did in checking out the books indefinitely, etc. but folks that are pro-gay and have a strong hatred for the conservative movement here in America won’t hesitate to use their intelligence to launch a counterattack such as this that just makes us conservatives look REALLY stupid. And the pro-gay crowd isn’t just made up of persons with homosexual attractions; they have the support of thousands and thousands straight liberals. Am I suggesting the folks who checked out the books indefinitely are in the wrong? Not at all! But we can’t let our pride get to us and think such actions are magic bullets.
Social conservatives are viewed as controlling, unkind, intolerant, power hungry, meddling, crazy, violent, dishonest and stupid.
Not fiscal conservatives who were always viewed as uncaring.
When people accept things that you do not accept, you are viewed as backwards.
I am a Catholic who uses the Bible and Church teaching to make decisions and choices in life. I am tolerated by my family, but I know they talk behind my back.
I have a family member who drops hints like “I know someone who is so Catholic that they’re weird.”
I don’t care if they think I’m weird. I do what I want and I want to follow Christ.
Some other followers of Christ do not agree with me, either. Most have never read the Bible. Most do not care what the Church says.
Some may be wiser than I so I always listen. Very few people, myself included, are entirely conformed to Christ.