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Rainbow-Colored Lasers @ Your Library
In these increasingly contentious times, librarians are often called to deal with complaints and/or challenges from patrons whose sensibilities have been offended by material in the library. Via Jessamyn, we learn of one librarian’s response to a challenged children’s book depicting a gay wedding:
Finally, then, I conclude that “Uncle Bobby’s Wedding” is a children’s book, appropriately categorized and shelved in our children’s picture book area. I fully appreciate that you, and some of your friends, strongly disagree with its viewpoint. But if the library is doing its job, there are lots of books in our collection that people won’t agree with; there are certainly many that I object to. Library collections don’t imply endorsement; they imply access to the many different ideas of our culture, which is precisely our purpose in public life.
Sure, this passage sounds measured, reasoned, sensible, and entirely consistent with the constitutional principles upon which this country has always operated. But we know the truth: such high minded rhetoric is merely a Trojan stalking horse for the insidious advance of The Gay Agenda, that fiendish supervillain who flies mincingly around the world in his fabulous pastel tights, zapping innocent heterosexual boys and girls with his Big Gay Laser of Gayness. One direct hit from this terrifying weapon will instantly turn the victim gayer than an Idaho Republican senator, gayer than an Oklahoma schoolgirl, gayer than a meth-smoking televangelist, gayer than the Gay Mayor of Gaytown.
Mein Gott! If we can’t count on librarians to protect our children from the Communist-inspired, objectively pro-terrorist notion that all people in this country deserve equal protection under the law, than who will?
