Legislature in Idaho wants to jail librarians...........

This is ridiculous. You should be able to take out any book you want at a library. Books should not be banned or censored. Librarians do not even check out books to patrons, the circulation staff does (who should not be jailed either).

This infuriates me. If parents want to censor what their own children read, that’s fine. But it absolutely crosses the line when they try to censor what is available for other kids read. Absolutely unacceptable for them to impose their beliefs on other children, other families. And what qualifications do parents or politicians have to make educational decisions? Do they have a degree in library science or a teaching certificate? I guess when some people decided their own “research” online is the equivalent of the education, training, research and experience of epidemiologists and doctors, they decided we don’t need experts like teachers and librarians to make educational decisions either.

oh ffs

Counting this as three tick marks in the con side of my Boise pro and con list.

What the hell is going on in this country? Why do we continue to go backwards instead of forward?

I saw this last night, and thought of you librarylady.

But I just couldn't post it. It's just too sad that this is who we are as in 2022 (at least in some states).

Idaho is trying to outdo FL and TX apparently, because the House just passed HB 675, too. Make sure you're sitting before you read some of it.

OMFG. That is near demented.

Because they want subservient women/girls, barefoot and pregnant in the kitchen and bedroom pleasing their and their friend's fantasies.

(Think Falwell OBSERVING his wife and her lover)

I picture librarians everywhere beating these dimwits with the biggest bible they can pull off the shelves.

The 8 kinkiest passages of the Bible
Dildos, dongs and a near-endless supply of boobs. The Good Book is a whole lot naughtier than we give it credit

www.salon.com/2015/04/06/the_8_kinkiest_passages_of_the_bible_partner/

A sampling:

"1. Dildos and dil-don’ts

One of the weirder books in the Bible (and we say that with a pillar of salt) is Ezekiel, who is a visionary and possibly God’s first experiment with LSD. In Ezekiel, God is pissed about Israel’s idolatry and immorality, such as all the jewelry that Judah (the town, who is described as an adulterous wife-prostitute for some reason) is turning into dildos.

“You also took the fine jewelry I gave you, the jewelry made of my gold and silver, and you made for yourself male idols and engaged in prostitution with them.” (Ezekiel 16:17)

Wives! So inconsiderate, amirite? You take the time and money to give some nice bling to your doting lady, and she goes and turns them into dongs and whores herself out with them. Next time, you should probably go with flowers, Zeke.

2. Women are the worst, part two

Deuteronomy is basically a big, weird pep talk from Moses where he explains God’s rules, such as when to marry your sister-in-law (if you’re confused, here’s a breakdown in Legos), when to muzzle one’s ox, and when to never seize a man’s genitals:

"If two men, a man and his countryman, are struggling together, and the wife of one comes near to deliver her husband from the hand of the one who is striking him, and puts out her hand and seizes his genitals, then you shall cut off her hand; you shall not show pity." (Deuteronomy 25:11-12)

So, wait a minute. Two bros are out fighting and then a wife comes to rescue her husband who’s getting beaten up, but then tries to initiate a menage a trois? There’s a time and a place, girlfriend! And it is not during Fight Club. There’s no orgies in fight club, as the little known third rule goes. We think, perhaps, that the real reason this gal is slated to get her hand cut off is because she caught her hubby having some gay sex with his fellow countryman and was like, “When in Israel…” and tried to join, but they were having none of that. But that’s just our guess."

These republicans creating all this bullshit legislation need to understand it’s the parents job to monitor their child’s screen time, reading, etc.

The refuglicans are only creating this legislation because they think it all the “Libs”.

I hate these republicans more and more every day.

Do they think every library staff has read every book in their library that they would know off the top of their heads what’s in each one?

A book comes across the check out desk and it’s a title/author and that it in the moment they have while checking it out.

I know our school librarians work super hard to know the books in their library, I know several and they know their stuff. If your child asks about similar books these school librarians do know their stuff, that’s the job. They read youth books all the time. One librarian I know reads most ( probably all ) of the books she purchases for her school library, but there’s books in there that were there before she began there. There’s a lot of books in there.

In the public library it is much different. 1/2 the people checking you out at our public library are volunteers and haven’t read every book and would have no idea the content of every book at check out. What an absurd idea for a law.