A local church is urging its members to permanently remove books from the Shelby County Public Library by checking them out and never returning them. The books portray gay characters and historical figures or explore LGBTQ+ themes.

Pamela Wilson Federspiel, who has been director of the library in downtown Shelbyville for 34 years, says the action is tantamount to “stealing.”

But three leaders of the Reformation Church of Shelbyville defend what they call an “act of civil disobedience.”

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      21 days ago

      Gideons actually encourages people to take those bibles, giving away Bibles is kind of their whole schtick.

      Sure, if enough people do it, maybe eventually the idiots donating to it will run out of money, but more likely they’d just think that what they’re doing is working really well and use brag about it to get even more people to donate to them.