The wife of a Republican state lawmaker in Arkansas has made herself the unofficial monitor of her neighbors’ Little Free Libraries.
Arkansas Times reports that Jennifer Meeks, the wife of Arkansas State Rep. Stephen Meeks, posted on Facebook recently about her efforts to remove “terrible books” from local Little Free Libraries and replace them with Bibles.
“I have been swapping out books in little free libraries for awhile,” she wrote in a Facebook post earlier this month. “I have seen good books, terrible books… Recently I have been picking up free Bibles at flea markets and thrift stores. Sometimes I find good devotion books or kids’ Bible stories at a good price to add. Or just great books, and a gospel tract is a nice idea too.”
Meeks said she was inspired to do this after seeing a lot of LGBTQ Pride-themed books in the libraries.
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“From what I have seen a lot of these books and other things don’t align with Christian values,” she wrote. “Today, I saw a bunch of Pride stuff in one. There’s a group of leftists, especially in Conway, who are very active in keeping little libraries well stocked.”
Meeks has since either deleted the Facebook post or made it private, although the local progressive organization Faulkner County Coalition for Social Justice said that her efforts would not stop people in the area from stocking libraries with quality reading material.
“Keep removing them, Jennifer,” they said. “We won’t stop.”
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I don’t get why they don’t get that, 1st, those are the property of the owners of the land where the little library is; 2d, one doesn’t take away books and not give them back; you can contribute other books, but you’re supposed to put the ones you borrow back after you’ve read them. This woman is stealing. If she’s such a Bible aficianado, well. She’s broken a commandment every time she does this. Not to mention WWJD…
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Hello Ali. It is sad but to some anything they do to further their religion or force others to follow their church doctrines is valid in the eyes of their god. The same idea that lying in the name of Jesus is OK as it is in service of god’s will. It is the same as those who claim that god’s laws (things they want because they think that their own hates and demands are the same as god’s) take priority over man’s laws. That is why preachers claimed they could keep churches open during a pandemic shutdown, and the fundamentalist religious majority on SCOTUS has agreed that what god wants comes before any laws in the country created by people. It is just an excuse to disregard any law they don’t like because they know god’s will and god says they can do so. That is why they feel and again the SCOTUS has agreed that if they think their god hates someone or something you don’t have to obey anti-discrimination laws. God’s wants which they know as a religious person, gives them complete authority to refuse to treat others equally and instead can clearly promote the superiority of their version of Christianity over the dirty heathen masses. Hugs
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