Seriously, what year is this? It is the year of Our Lord 2018, and pastors are sending a letter to some library to remove, or "hide" if you believe their nonsense, some yuri manga from a theme book shelf. June's month? Pride, as in LGBT Pride. 

Here is the manga in question. From mangaka Nagata Kabi, "My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness". It's an autobiographical story about the mangaka's discovery of her sexuality, her mental health, as she grew up into a woman. 

Now let's tear these hateful people a new one, shall we? So what happened? Well, some pastors get together on a monthly basis and discuss which books are not suitable for the public. Man, how familiar does that sound? I bet their bonfires are truly lit. So, during their week-long get together, they discovered that a library was showing the above manga in a case for books with LGBT themes, per their June theme.

They got together and wrote a letter, seen HERE, to the library's trustees, demanding it be removed. Their justifications? “not appropriate for a public library”, “would be risque and immodest to many”, “far-left political views that see homosexuality as acceptable”. For good measure they also mention it being disrespectful to both Christian and Muslim beliefs, both of which commonly disapprove of homosexuality, and that the library should be sensitive to such religions. 

That last part is just laughable. I doubt they give two Our Father's about the Muslim religion. Now let's tear their justifications apart. First, libraries are not churches, temples, or any sort of house of religion. They are places of knowledge and wisdom beyond such things. Next, not appropriate for a public library? I wonder if they have Bram Stoker's Dracula in there. Maybe some Lord of the Flies? Risque and immodest to many? Man, I've seem some steamy covers in my time in libraries and book stores, that cover above doesn't come close to them. Political leanings and homosexuality as acceptable? First, our Constitution guarantees that religion shouldn't play into politics. Second, homosexuality is acceptable. Deal with it. Do I need to make that line bigger? I will if I have to. Fear the blog writer who controls the font size.

One of the pastors tried to cover themselves, saying “none of us that signed are interested in banning or destroying any books. I don’t know how that rumor got started”. Uh huh. Suuure. In trying to seem chill about the matter, one of them claimed they “did not want to alienate the gay community” and that it was unfortunate that the letter was somehow posted publicly.

Justice prevailed when the library decided to keep the manga up, saying “by moving that display, it would be a form of censorship that we cannot do, under any circumstance”. You go, my book worms. 

What do you make of this call back to darker days in books being banned and burned? Sound off in the comments below!