Go to their church, and borrow money from the collection tray without returning it

Bill them fees. Then take them to court when they don't pay and if they do pay use the money to buy more of the books. These are fools that are used to being milked like cattle...use it for good.

There are two groups here. One wants to be allowed to live their lives in peace and one wants to control you. The press and the ones that want to control you you have twisted it and it’s infuriating.

The religious.... Always willing to break the law

Wow these LGBT books are flying off the shelves! We should buy a lot more of them!

Typical Shelbyville.

This is what inbred cousin marriage does to a town.

Stealing from a library should be a deadly sin like kicking a puppy or pineapple on a pizza.

I've worked in libraries and this isn't a new tactic. The funny thing to me is that the library will almost always rebuy the missing book unless they were planning on removing it anyway, so the net result is a signal to the publishers to print more LGBTQ books.

Theft, plain and simple. The only hope is that they actually read those books and learn something.

Maybe the library should raise and enforce their late-return-fees...

The way to fight this is easy. Offer to buy new library copies. Eventually they'll run out of people without overdue books.

Burning or disposing of the books will also generate bad press because it associates them with their kindred spirits: Nazis and church censors.

I wonder how long it would take for them to cry foul if a group did the same thing for all of the Christian-themed books in the libraries...

Civil disobedience often comes with the cost of breaking the law and enduring the consequences.

You may not agree with their non violent protest but as long as they suffer the consequences, I'm okay with it.

Just tell me where to donate to replace the books so they can accrue more punishment.

Sue the church for damages, both physical and mental. It should cost them a lot to promote bigotry and hate.

Yeah, so when you take something that isn't yours and don't give it back. That's theft.

Of course religious freaks are going to create their own reality in which theft isn't theft. They're pros at creating alternate realities when it benefits them.

These are criminals not only committing theft, but also a hate crime.

Uncivil disobedience

Hope they enjoy their item replacement fees and collection agency reports, and not being able to use the library at all 'til all of that is resolved (no matter how much a fit they throw when they can't use the printers.) They'll still pay for the material with their taxes. They're paying for public unbiased access to information either way. We'll serve LGBTQIA+ books the same way we serve faith books the same way we serve Bill O'Reilly's slop and tomes of questionable fad diets and endless ghostwritten hackjob murder mysteries. For free. For everyone.

Their loss if they wanna stay dumb and mad.

Pretty sure God's not big on stealing stuff that ain't yours, too. These "churches" are cults of lost, confused, angry children, and I pray they find their brains somewhere along the way.

Thanks for supporting your local libraries, especially as we're under siege from so many angles every single day.

---With love, a library employee (also a Christian)

So much for “Thou shalt not steal.”

But then, the most ardent believers do the most cherry picking with The Bible.

Charge them for the full replacement value of the book, and then replace the book with 3 copies.

So if I steal a song book from a church that is okay with them. Right?

Imagine doing shit like this and thinking history will remember you fondly.

“Are we the baddies?”

Civil disobedience and "petty crime" aren't mutually exclusive. It is integral to civil disobedience that laws are broken. Also there is probably a difficulty and lots of legal debate about when violating a civil contract, borrowing an item for a specified time, becomes theft of the item by not returning it.

I think non of these should be the question here though. It is simply a dick move.

I'd say it's both, but for a hateful and regressive cause that I despise.

Steal the bibles from their pews. Steal the after-service refreshments and give them to the homeless.

This ultimately just leads to more sales of the book they hate when the library has to replace it.

There's a nice wall over there perhaps some of these people would like to lean on it. And then I have these exciting pieces of lead I wish to introduce them to

Looks like those topics are incredibly popular! Replace the missing volumes and expand the section!

Uhh so if somebody did the same for books about conversion therapy? Would they still consider it civil disobedience or does that become an attack on "freedom of religion."

These dumbfucks need real hobbies.

That's actually really funny.

I can't believe what goes through these people's minds.

This is the Reformation Church of Shelbyville, KY.

It sure would be a shame if the bibles they leave out every day went missing.

Can't it be both? No one ever said that civil disobedience is without consequences. The consequences here are that the people who stole the books have to pay for a new one and aren't able to check out any more books. All they managed to do is take it out of the library's collection for a little bit and increase the book's sales by one.