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December 09, 2005

PLANET MORONIA: Backward as Leningrad

 

 

Remember the American Library Association’s mantra that they were really all about free speech when asked to place filters to block offensive content on computers accessed by children?

 

Well, a local library near Memphis forced a private display of a manger scene to remove its figurines of Jesus, Joseph, Mary and wise men, leaving only the farm animals and a shepherd because the library commissariat officials adjudged the figurines to be offensive.

 

So, as far as one can tell, the American library system is now on record stating that:

    1. Free speech should be curtailed at times to avoid causing gross offense.
    2. Pornography available to minors (which, by the way is criminal) does not cause gross offense.
    3. Religious holiday displays cause gross offense.

 

Fortunately, the library backed down after considerable public pressure. But I think this displays yet another example of the fact the library system’s talk of free speech is vapid.

 

What those who partake in the leftward bent of library policies around the country are often too cowardly to admit is that they feel it is their job to be "change-agents" (a term used by leftwing educrat types in their own writings). It is, they feel, a duty of theirs to remove the corrupting influence of religious values imposed by parents on their children. A powerful tool to this end is to expose children to anything morally destabilizing while removing anything which might mitigate that destabilization, say for example a religious display reminding children of their roots (or in another set of cases, removing the Bible or published fiction by famed literary icon C.S. Lewis).

 

The double standard really is glaringly endemic particularly in leftwing academia, but also throughout the left as a whole. This is partly because the left knows that unless it continues to add to its numbers Americans who ascribe to their ideals by first separating Americans from their contrarian religious history, it will lose ground. The easiest (and most cowardly) way to do that of course is to warp young minds (one must break a few eggs to make an omelet). So this should really come as no surprise for any of us who happen to run in to one of these secularist-Puritans.

 

Posted by Martin at December 9, 2005 04:25 PM

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