Banished from a public library?

Life and Liberty Ministries ^ | 8/20/05 | Dennis Green

[BenLurkin]

"Library policy forbids soliciting, campaigning and petitioning in the Library and in and around Library entryways. No materials may be distributed to the public without the Library Director's approval."

Seem like pretty simple rules.

[clyde asbury]

You inserted materials in public library books and you're surprised they banned you?

The content of the leaflets is irrelevant.

[ClearCase_guy]

Congress shall make no law abridging the Freedom of Speech.

But we're not dealing with Congress. The Library Director is in charge. She can do what she wants. She wants books featuring graphic sex? It's her call. She wants to keep out material that is anti-abortion? It's her call.

Librarians are highly politicial. Typically, very Left. Very Gramschi. Not much you can do about it.

[DuckFan4ever]

"Library policy forbids soliciting, campaigning and petitioning in the Library and in and around Library entryways. No materials may be distributed to the public without the Library Director's approval."

If you don't like the rules, change them. Become the library director. That policy is hardly unreasonable. I don't want to be handed flier by every lefty group in the Library.

[softwarecreator]

Although your cause may be noble, do you feel like that is the right place for you to put your "information" when it is clearly stated that you cannot do so?

[patton]

Look, I am as prolife as they get - I just talked to a young mother, who I spent more than a little time convincing not to abort her kid. The baby is four, now.

But if you are hanging around leaving literature in library bathrooms, seek help.

You need it.

[cyborg]

You were wrong my friend.

[cyborg]

Some people get a little obsessed about saving people from the consequences of their choices.

[durasell]

Yes, but it's also a little weird.

[patton]

I did?

[softwarecreator]

I agree with you.  No one can debate that the guy's cause is a good one, but ...

Hanging around in library bathrooms kinda makes you a bit creepy, you know?  If I went into a bathroom and some guy, who was obviously hanging out there, came around the corner trying to "hand" me something, he would be requiring medical attention real fast.

[cyborg]

No what this freeper is trying to do.

[jude24]

Why should you have the right to distribute your fliers in library books? Should that right be extended to Planned Parenthood as well?

And, as regards internet pornography, who appointed you the judge of what others should or should not be able to access? Bearing in mind, I write this a pro-lifer who considers pornography dangerous to the mind. But neither you nor I have the authority to tell anyone else what they can research.

[softwarecreator]

Very well put.

[durasell]

There's pornography on the internet? I'm shocked!

[Paleo Conservative]

As if the libraries had infinite budgets and can buy a copy of every publication. Considering it is the taxpayers who fund the library, they ought to have a say in what publications their public libraries buy.

[muawiyah]

It's a public library. The head librarian is little more than an agent of the state. Such people are not entitled to an opinion regarding what is or is not free speech, nor may they pray on the job.

[saquin]

It's people like you who give all principled opponents of abortion a bad name.

[jude24]

No one has the right to disrupt or other library patrons. Freedom of speech means only that the Government cannot penalize you for what you say; it does not require them to provide you a forum.