Right wing couple: We are being HARMED by thinking we don't agree with

[ck4829]

Ginny and Jim Maziarka of West Bend earlier this year asked the community board to remove books that the couple considers to be obscene or child pornography from a section of the library designated "Young Adults." The couple formed an organization, West Bend Citizens for Safe Libraries, to promote their views.

Now the American Library Association reports that the board is facing a lawsuit seeking $120,000 in damages from people claiming to have been personally harmed by the fact that the books are in the library and who are demanding the right to burn said books:

Board members were made cognizant that same evening that another material challenge waited in the wings: Milwaukee-area citizen Robert C. Braun of the Christian Civil Liberties Union (CCLU) distributed at the meeting copies of a claim for damages he and three other plaintiffs filed April 28 with the city; the complainants seek the right to publicly burn or destroy by another means the library’s copy of Baby Be-Bop. The claim also demands $120,000 in compensatory damages ($30,000 per plaintiff) for being exposed to the book in a library display, and the resignation of West Bend Mayor Kristine Deiss for “allow(ing) this book to be viewed by the public.”

http://rightwingwatch.org/content/were-offended-so-give-us-120000-and-right-burn-books

[HughBeaumont]

1. This is the sort of thing Talibornagains worry about.

If only we could all be so lucky or have that much time on our hands. For such important things. Really.

[sharp_stick]

2. I will burn one copy of the bible

for every one of these that get taken out of the library. Because I may not be allowed to burn it in front of my house without getting into trouble with the fire department I'll be drinking a lot of beer that night just in case I'm forced to put the fire out.

[Mari333]

16. adding to that....theres rape, incest, adultery, polygamy in the bible

someone needs to point that out to these people...they probably never actually READ the bible of course

if they had they would be burning that too

the judge will throw this out faster then you can say jesus h christ

[havocmom]

3. Unless the books hit them on the head, how were they harmed by them?

Dear fundies and right wing hooligans: not being able to control what the rest of America reads, thinks, legally does, or who they choose to marry DOES NOT DAMAGE YOU in any way.

:banghead:

[madeline_con]

33. Harmed by thinking they don't agree with.

Maybe I'll sue Flush Limpballs...

[Sebastian Doyle]

36. Not a bad idea

It would be easy to make the case of how 20 years of that drug-addled pedophile piece of shit being on the radio has damaged this country.

[EFerrari]

4. I didn't know libraries were supposed to be safe.

These people are the intellectual equivalent of those con artists that "slip and fall" in grocery stores.

[havocmom]

7. They want their offspring to be able to go anywhere and have their home rules operate

That way, they don't have to actually supervise their kids or teach them how to deal with reality. We are supposed to provide them with THEIR idea of utopia while denying our own liberties.

If they want that level of control over society, there ARE a few countries that provide it. They can move. x(

[Veruca Salt]

5. This is bullshit and should be thrown out of court as frivolous

WTF are they thinking?! The book burning fascists that is.

[havocmom]

11. Then, they will be screaming about 'activist judges' who won't promote policy THEY want

They are NOT playing with full decks and/or they do NOT believe in the principles this nation was founded upon.

[Veruca Salt]

25. I know, and it enrages me so much I see red

you have summed up their game and what they are beautifully. :thumbsup:

[juno jones]

6. Buy your own copy to burn, capitalist pigs.

The other copy was paid for by the state. It belongs to everybody, and not everybody wants to burn it.


Tough titty.

[TZ]

8. When did this meme of it being harmful to be exposed to dissenting opinions start?

I'm serious. I knew some fundies growing up and as much as I disagreed with them..they weren't like this....

[JHB]

21. Oh, it started ages ago...

Google "Mel and Norma Gabler" sometime, and read up on the influence they had on the Texas State Textbook Committee from the 70's to only a few years ago.

The 70's is probably the turning point you're looking for. There are still fundies around like the ones you grew up with, but the kind that needs to engage in "scent marking for Jayzus" over everything have been emboldened to pull this crap every few years for the last generation.

[Cheap_Trick]

9. What, no abortion clinics close enough to bomb? nt

[sinkingfeeling]

10. Man, these people should at least keep up. The three books were published in 1997, 1999, and 2003.

I swear if I lived there, I'd wander through the library's religion/theology section, and then file a multi-thousand dollar lawsuit because I was offended and 'harmed' by the books being there.

The Geography Circle - 2003
The Perks of Being a Wallflower - 1999
Baby Be-Bop - 1997

[Vickers]

12. "demanding the right to burn said books"

*performs a quick scan of The Bill Of Rights*

Holy shit, that really is in there!!!

:wow:

[gratuitous]

13. Ohmigosh!

Dearie, dearie me! I hope nobody tells Mr. and Mrs. Maziarka about everybody they see being nekkid as jaybirds underneath their clothes! There'd be another lawsuit for sure.

I'm guessing that the Maziarkas won't be the subject of any of those phony national chamber of commerce ads about the faces of lawsuit abuse.

[peacetalksforall]

14. I'll tell you what is damaging my 'mental and emotional well-being'

Car advertisements with shiny armor speeding down highways. Let's see what these mentally and emotionally anquished people think about the influential damage to the young who believe they will live to an old age and never kill anyone with their car or a car stolen for the thrill.

[omega minimo]

15. It's harmful knowing that people like this exist

outside of Orwell and Bradbury

[moggie]

17. They're just harmed by thinking, period

Thinking is hard. They'd prefer it if they and their kids didn't have to do it, and they're prepared to limit your civil liberties to achieve that goal.

[Hepburn]

18. Take a look at these two....

That's Jim and Ginny!

[Vickers]

19. Looks like she's being harmed by HFCS, and he's being harmed

by a barber with a mixing bowl.

[Mari333]

23. LOL you are bad

[Hepburn]

30. Latte spew....

...:rofl:

[Mari333]

20. just as I thought..check this out..the AFA is behind this shit

this is the blog Ginny Maziarka uses to censor books
the American Family Association is behind this shit

http://wissup.blogspot.com/

[LostinVA]

22. I was wondering about that == good find!

[Toucano]

28. That's a fun read.

They find the line, "...over the summer, she grew breasts..." to be harmful.

Lunatics.

[Hepburn]

31. Well, yeah....

...breasts on a female are ONLY sexual objects, right?

:sarcasm:

[peacetalksforall]

24. It's time to resurrect my proposal - this country should split up - let the

abortion lovers, skin color hatera. war lovers, and righteous religious use their children to fight their own wars and let them believe that they will be safe if they have the Ten Commandments in their Court Rooms. Let them steal their own votes and have their own wall street schemes. And hopefully they will build the world's tallest and thickest wall to separate us from them. I am really angry this week. The news has all been down hill for the country.

[okieinpain]

35. they would want there own army and bombs, and you know who

would be there first target.

[sarcasmo]

26. Christian Taliban at it again, Abortion, Books, if they don't like it you don't need it.

[havocmom]

27. Don't forget all the pharmacists who are SO hurt if they have to dispense birth control pills

I really feel some of them just went into pharmacy work so they could complain they were being persecuted if expected to do their damned job. They don't like birth control so they go into a field to interfere with people getting legitimate prescriptions filled.

[sarcasmo]

29. I forgot about the Pharmacist who tries to push his views

[havocmom]

32. Don't let ANYONE forget the pharmacists! They show the lie of 'pro-life' groups. Really ANTI-choice

anti-women, anti-health, anti-civil rights, anti-Ameircan!

[NC_Nurse]

34. They should just shorten it to: We are being harmed by thinking." It obviously

makes their brains hurt.