The heat hasn't even broken yet...

Ah, yes, back to school week. Moms cry as their little darlings go off for their first day of school, and the wingnuts come out of the woodwork, looking to ban books:

BOLIVIA, N.C. -- Brunswick County school officials will consider a procedure for students' parents to challenge books available at school libraries.

This comes one year after a public, nationwide discussion about allowing religious materials to be distributed in Brunswick County high schools.

If you look at the tit-for-tat here, it's a clear example of why these people need to be called out whenever they start. The fundigelicals want to be able to challenge books on Wicca and such because they were not allowed to distribute bibles in schools. Because they couldn't make like The Gideons and put a bible in the hands of every child, they now want to be able to pull books off of library shelves.

Apples-and-oranges. Shoot, this is Apples and dinosaurs, the two are so unrelated. The fundigelicals are clever, though. Look at this guy's statement:

Board member Jimmy Hobbs said he sees the importance of reviewing the policy.

"The issue is a valid issue," Hobbs said. "I'm not attacking Harry Potter. When the issue of Bibles in schools came up last year, the ones that raised the most opposition was the group known as Wicca. Does this policy give them a free pass to get their materials into the schools?

I'll wager that there's at least one bible on the shelf at each Brunswick Co. library location. I'll even be bold enough to suggest that a library patron can get their hands on biblical commentary works as well. The wingnut doesn't want you thinking about that, though. They want you to believe that the Godless Homos are putting evil books in the hands of your children.

Call bullshit on them, and call it loudly, when you hear someone spewing this garbage.

Banning books is one of the very few exemptions from Godwin's Law I'll allow. As soon as the wingnuts start on the subject of challenging books on library shelves, it's time to remind them of Nazi book-burnings.

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