GOP gubernatorial candidate says Satan is sitting in libraries

[Celerity]

He described efforts to ban LGBTQ+ books as “an absolute battle between good and evil.”

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2023/02/gop-gubernatorial-candidate-says-satan-is-sitting-in-libraries/



Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry (R) described efforts to ban what he has characterized as “sexually explicit” books from public libraries as “an absolute battle between good and evil.” The Republican who is running for governor and has spearheaded efforts to ban books in the state spoke last Friday at a gathering of pastors hosted by Tony Perkins, president of the anti-LGBTQ+ Family Research Council, in Baton Rouge.

“Our libraries are not a place for Satan to sit,” Landry said, according to an email from Perkins about the event. “Those libraries belong to you.” Landry asserted that while the First Amendment protects the availability of books on library shelves, those books should not be available to everyone. He also claimed that “evil and the devil doubled down,” following the Supreme Court’s decision to strike down Roe v. Wade, comparing aborting a fetus to letting a child see books he thinks are inappropriate. “Now that [the Left] can’t stain those children before they’re born… they’re working on them while they’re alive.”

Earlier this month, Landry released a report that included a list of books that his office characterized as “sexually explicit” or inappropriate for children. The list included The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison, Maia Kobabe’s Gender Queer, Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home, The Lawn Boy by Jonathan Evison, and other books by LGBTQ+ authors and writers of color.

Landry has claimed that his efforts, including setting up a tip line for people to report books, are not about banning books or targeting specific groups. Instead, he claims he wants libraries to institute policies so that parents have more control over the books their children can access, according to the Lafayette Daily Advertiser.

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[Ocelot II]

1. When are they going to start burning books for real?

[roamer65]

2. Very soon.

[Johnny2X2X]

11. They literally already are

There have been many book burning events throughout the South over the last year or 2.

[alfredo]

3. As long as he is quiet and obeys library rules, I have no objections

[DBoon]

5. if the library does not smell of brimstone, I'm OK

Satan has the bath regularly, the smell of burning sulfur m,ay get to some people

[alfredo]

8. Better than the old man funk that follows trump around

[dweller]

4. . . .

"Wherever they burn books, in the end will also burn human beings." -
Heinrich Heine



✌🏻

[3Hotdogs]

6. I bet he jerked off to Tammy Faye

when he was a kid.

[Timeflyer]

9. This is an "educated" adult in the USA 2023???

The Inquisition was so much fun, let's do it again! OK, Savonarola? You in, Torquemada? Hitler's ghost, I know you want a piece of this action. Let's burn librarians!

[MagickMuffin]

10. That's a lot of Satans! That'd be an Army of Satans

Hey Jeff,

Why you be so obsessed with sex? Are you hiding a very deep and dark secret?

Do you share those very deep dark secrets with Tony?

Books have less rights than guns! Books educate, Guns kills all those little children who could have been reading a book!


I have a suggestion, you don’t need to worry your little ol head on what others are doing. Let parents control their kids, it IS NOT UP TO YOU.

The libraries belong to everyone. It is not your job to be the morality police!

[Retrograde]

12. My library lets anyone sit in it

as long as they don't disturb the other patrons too much (and the library's open, of course). But then I live in godless liberal California.