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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    Even if they followed JESUS himself, they’d love God and then treat everyone else the way they would want to be treated.

    Fake Christians, imho

    (I’m an atheist)

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      As an imperfect, trying-my-best Christian, thank you for sticking up for us, outnumbered and doing our best in this dark world whilst getting false-flagged by hate-cults since the beginning.

      It’s safe to say we genuinely love you for it. <3

      Take good care. :)

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      Fake Christians, imho

      Nah, these are real Christians. Don’t make their fallacious arguments for them.

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        I know a (very) few who walk the walk.

        This are the only ones I would give the benefit of the doubt to

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          I know a (very) few who walk the walk.

          Right. Exactly. When the majority of the people of a religion behave a certain way, that’s common trait of the religion. “Not walking the walk” is about as Christian as it gets.

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            American Evangelicals are not the majority of Christians, even though American exceptionalism makes them view themselves as such

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          They need to change the name of the “no true Scotsman” fallacy to “no true Christian” as it makes a lot more sense these days…

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                Again. I don’t care that you had a wacko creationist church when you were a kid. That’s not what most Christians believe

                Source: Was also raised Christian and so were most people in Western Countries

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                    1. I’m not a Christian, but thanks for revealing your bigotry against Christians.
                    2. The slavery being condoned was an Old Testament thing, Jesus said those rules didn’t matter anymore