Christian group sues for right to burn gay teen novel

Odd, I found this through a series of clicks and it happened to be from you, Jeff. This is non-sense, utter non-sense. Suing them for exposure in a display case????? Narrow-minded Christian hubris at its best. If I sued [and won] for every undesirable thing I saw or heard on a daily basis I'd be on yacht somewhere by now.

Ok - There are trillions of stars in our galaxy. There are over a hundred billion galaxies that we can see.

THIS is the flesh of God.

You are unimportant. All that stuff that is taught in church is simply untrue. No reality to it. zip. Period. That's it.

Life is short - Stand back and take a sober assessment. Stop throwing your life away. Do something worthwhile. Amount to your potential. Have that shinning life you should have.
You have no time to waste. None at all.

You either WILL be everything you should be - or you will not.

This is the best advice you will ever receive in your whole life.

http://current.com/items/90219775_same-sex-behavior-found-in-nearly-all-animals....

Looks like God intended it after all...

hehehe

Their suit claims that "the plaintiffs, all of whom are elderly, claim their mental and emotional well-being was damaged by this book at the library."

What about books on killing whole races, abusing and torturing people, bombing whole towns unsuspected, use of poisonous gas in showers? Oh wait, there are books on World War 2... Although it did make for an interesting conversational scene in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade.

Oh, don't burn books, bad for the environment.

You're either gonna get smart before you die - or not.

@revia on twitter says "Dear (fightforyourrightobookburn) Christian Civil Liberties Union, whatever side you're on, I am now on the other one:"

@jasonpinter on twitter says "Is there really still book burning going on? Are we in the Middle Ages? Why not bring back dowries and prima nocta?"

What did F. Murry Abrams say in Amadeus?

The hate of God and Christians in these comments is disturbing, are you guys reading what you are spewing.
I have never heard such hate toward another group as the hate you have for God and Christians.
Nothing any Christian has commented on any post regarding Gays is as hateful and disturbing as this.
Have any of you read the original article, this is a publicity stunt and nothing more.
No one cares what books are in a library, no one visits a library.
You are using any excuses to express hatred for God and his chosen.

I feel terrible that God has forsaken you and I can only pray that he will see something hidden deep within your soul worth saving.
However it seems you have closed the door on God.
So live your few years in peace and find happiness. Don’t waste it on hate for God and his people. Life is too short to live it hating. As you have rejected God and Christ, this is all you will have ,so live a happy and fulfilling life. Enjoy this beautiful earth God gave us and this existence that allows us to experience this existance. There is nothing like it in the universe . Christ died to abate Gods wrath and give you this wonderful gift to live out your years. enjoy it

The hate of God and Christians in these comments is disturbing, are you guys reading what you are spewing.
I have never heard such hate toward another group as the hate you have for God and Christians.
Nothing any Christian has commented on any post regarding Gays is as hateful and disturbing as this.
Have any of you read the original article, this is a publicity stunt and nothing more.
No one cares what books are in a library, no one visits a library.
You are using any excuses to express hatred for God and his chosen.

I feel terrible that God has forsaken you and I can only pray that he will see something hidden deep within your soul worth saving.
However it seems you have closed the door on God.
So live your few years in peace and find happiness. Don’t waste it on hate for God and his people. Life is too short to live it hating. As you have rejected God and Haven, this is all you will have ,so live a happy and fulfilling life. Enjoy this beautiful earth God gave us that allows us to experience this existance. There is nothing like it in the universe . Christ died to abate Gods wrath and give you this wonderful gift to live out your years. enjoy it.

People still check out books from a library?
Sounds to me like a publicity stunt by the publisher.

Boy, belief in the Lord, or Allah, or whatever name you care to apply is sure a fiery topic isn't it?

Now why would that be? 83 responses I see to this - so far. Some have expressed a belief in the Lord, others are busy trying to smack it down. And we go merrily along fighting amongst ourselves - everyone convinced they have the right of it.

Why is this such an emotional topic? You either have a belief or you don't. This requires fired up? All religions have rules that are supposed to direct you how to live your life. But this is America. You can give credence to it, or no. Your choice - no penalty. At least not an earthly one; depending on how you look at it.

For myself I have a belief in the Lord, although I can't really call myself a Christian. My belief is personal but it works for me. And what I think is real easy to say. You can believe in the Lord or not as it suits you. But I think the Lord believes in you. Your opinion of it not withstanding. What's there to fight about? I'll be me - you be you. We've got a life here to live and I'm sure we'll all do the best with it we can manage.

There have been a number of posts that actually hit on the topic. And the topic, it seems to me, is we have a group of folks that want to restrict libraries. I'm sorry; that doesn't fly with me. Information, on any and every topic, should be available to anyone that wants to read it. period. You have problems with your kids? Well, you're the parent - deal with it. This is hard?

I think more conservative members is a good thing.

All the people on this site are not Liberal or Atheist...

@ all but particularly GodsnLibs

I think there is a major misconception going on here:

It IS legal to burn things. If these people wanted to burn this book according to their civil rights, they could buy a copy and, in accordance with their area's laws, burn away. No one is arguing against that right.

The reason these people have a lawsuit in place seems to be because they either want to burn the library's book or receive some kind of special permission to burn the book publicly.

From the article:
"a legal claim demanding the right to publicly burn a copy of a book for teenagers which they deem to be "explicitly vulgar, racial [sic], and anti-Christian"

"the plaintiffs, all of whom are elderly, claim their mental and emotional well-being was damaged by this book at the library," and that it contains derogatory language that could "put one's life in possible jeopardy, adults and children alike."

"The word 'faggot' is very derogatory and slanderous to all males," the suit continues. "Using the word 'Nigger' is dangerously offensive, disrespectful to all people. These words can permeate violence." The suit also claims that the book "constitutes a hate crime, and that it degrades the community".

(I think it's weird that the book is stated to be for Teenagers but the people suing are stated to be Elderly...)

Anyway, we can not censor a book simply because it contains things we don't like. These people could easily burn their copy of this book without any need for a lawsuit, but they are ALSO looking for $120,000.

No one's "rights" are at stake here (only common sense and sanity.)

Not all atheists are liberals.

come on guys..LEARN TO ROLL WITH THE PUNCHES..of all people athiest should be aware that protesting and 'burning things" is pretty much a right bestowed to others..NOT ONLY LIBERALS AND ATHIEST can act stupid..

liberals will protect your freedom even if it means taking it away..gotta love how liberalism had been highjacked by wackos more dangerous than the pope..

learn the true meaning of liberalism and athiesm..

Don't burn the books, what trees have you wasted!

Hands off the library books ! Burn your own ! (You realize this will increase sales of even a badly written book ?) Delia is right , nobody made them read it - they'll have to punish themselves for that ! Have sense !

I say let them burn as many copies of the book as they want to BUY. Then, make sure that there are counter protestors on hand who can burn a copy of the bible for every copy of the book these clowns want to burn. See how they like the tit-for-tat of that scenario.

Book burning is for simpletons and hatemongers. Also known as LOSERS.

God is love. Christians are misled believing in the bloodthirsty desert god of the Hebrews is the same god of Jesus. That is why they are capable of such terrors against homosexuals. They deny that Jesus never condemned homosexuality.

Belief in hell has got to be grounds for having someone committed to a mental institution.

These so called Christians are nothing like Christ at all... Maybe they could try not reading books such as this if it offends them so much... no one made them read it so what are they complaining about? Maybe they should try suing themselves for reading the damn thing in the first place...

They have a rlght to burn books if they want to. We may not like it, but it's their right. Keep in mind that we also have a right to protest their book burnings.

And, I don't support burning Bibles like some people suggested. Not only is it an insult to all Christians, rather than just those burning books - it is also essentially us becoming them - bigots.

If we're against hate, we should not commit hate.

Just want to laugh at those Christians:
~Christians have to make up their Holidays, while Gays gets a whole month to themselves...!

I used to read Block's books in middle school! sigh... I guess the book burning list will never end

This is down right stupid. Although I don't agree with their actions, if they want to burn the book, go ahead.

But they are sueing the library association demanding money because they library was founded by a Christian group?

If the Christian group had a problem, then they should ban the freaking book. And is the library a CHRISTIAN library? If it's a PUBLIC library they have NO RIGHT to ban ANY book.

hmm, deserves my copy-over again. Concerning God.
The situation - with all of us - is whether we suffer of absolute illusion. Considering, of course, that our very brains are creating the images we see of the world.
And our brains fool us, with great regularity - yes?
But we all try, - and the subject of God has total effect. Total effect on us and into society.
Is there a God? - The God that people in religions have come to be taught?
My position is, (since the otherwise taboo subject is raised on current) - there cannot be any old answer that anybody wants to come up with.
It is either true - or not.
Very few people are so wishy-washy and devoid of a spine that their beliefs and the reality of God actually don't matter to them. The question does matter.
People usually think of God as the man with a beard, who created the Universe so that those who pray to Him will be saved (be reborn again after death).
- you all know the drill.
I see enough, and I believe most people understand enough about the Universe, at this time, to know that that the particulars of that cosmological view are simply not real.
There's no man with beard hiding in the sky who made the whole of the Universe just so we humans don't have to die.
There's a famous Hubble picture of a pinpoint in the heavens, where 10,000 galaxies are seen. There's lots of pinpoints in sky. When looking up, we see a Universe of billions upon billions of galaxies expanding in all directions.
We're a little species on a little dot, in a little corner of a little galaxy.
We here, residing entirely in the last two micro-seconds on the known clock. - The dinosaurs lived 500 times longer than we.
The real directionality is straight down toward the gravitation center, but our two eyes are on the watch-out for predators. So we actually thought the world was flat.
That's the basic proclamation of religions, the world is flat, God made it for you and made all the animals for you. Does this not sound a little childish?
Then look at the composition and functions of things small - that starts looking as complex as the heavens.
You have more bugs living in you than there is you.
All of the Universe, no matter where you look, expands in substance - completely beyond the specifications proclaimed by all the religions.
So much so, that it is the Universe itself that meets all the requirements placed for the Creator.
So the creator and the Universe are one. (God is One) - That's what the original idea the one God believers told those who asked: "There's no 'Gods', there's just one big, nameless oneness. Once you put a name on it, you have created an illusion."
Of course, this got co-opted into religion by priest types who hadn't vaguest idea about God.
So the situation becomes, for our little current discussions, is faith placed into obviously illusionary beliefs, a waste of one's time? Is that faith misplaced?
Remember, one's good mind and intellect and curiosity will take that person to exactly as rich a mentality that they are capable of, whether the specifics of their understanding.
A good man will gravitate to his own good nature.
It is my feeling that we want, you and me and everyone else, and should allow ourselves to gain as much and as rich a view as possible.
That means seeing the truth, as best as one can.
While many benefits are heralded for "spirituality" where therein is the threshold that 'need for beliefs' choke off reason? Where is one's need for God, to eliminate that very understanding that is sought? Where does one get trapped by holding to an idea one found in the past?
I once said, if I pray to a bottle cap - for all my life, what an obvious waste, correct?
So it is important what the truth is, is it not?
And that's what we're here for, in this discussion, what is the truth? The real truth - not illusion.

Yep, I hope the judge makes a deal with the CCLU.

They can burn the book if someone else is allowed to burn the Bible at the same time in the same place.

Hate begets more hate.

Sometimes you have to laugh to keep from crying, so I choose to LOL over these things instead of getting pissed about it:

"$120,000 in compensatory damages for being exposed to the book." O Noez! Don't expose us to books unless it's the bible!

"we are not homophobic ... we just know whats right and wrong." Super LOLZ, because asserting moral superiority over gay people IS homophobia! FAIL!

(from the article) "You're talking about something like book burning, calling on the law to burn books." It's so American to destroy what we don't understand- and it's UBER American to do it in the name of god!

Jeez people I mean really, there are a lot of books out there that I'm not interested in or might find offensive. You know what I do?

I DON'T READ THEM! Problem solved!

This makes me wonder if I can sue for exposure to ultra-conservative nonsense.

Just like stereotyping homosexuals and all groups is wrong, please don't stereotype Christians based on this story.

go ahead and burn the BIBLE and when your done and your time on earth has ended you will also burn but you will feel yours for eternity ....its your life now!!! but your fate is in our Gods hands

There is some degree of irony when individuals who typically decry political correctness go off and sue because a book was displayed that hurt their feelings. That's just censorship disguised as moral indignation. And last time I checked, you're not allowed to burn public property. Aside from it being overtly fascist and appalling, it's illegal.

Although I would consider this hate speech, they have the right to burn the book if they buy their own copy.

I say let them go out and buy their own copy and burn it. Its their right as an american to burn their own stuff as long as they do it safely. But don't burn a library book. period. and seriously? 120k in emotional damages? what kind of drugs do they do in their state? and side note, I've read this book and I think that it was poorly written and not worth this controversy

Wow. Just...... wow.

The fact that gays have a pride month is ridiculous.
And the fact that these "Christians" are suing is just as ridiculous.

Christians are pysco. They just don't want people to find out about their gay homo Christian fuck parties. Look it up.

Thank you, homo-hating nut jobs, for keeping our Cause in the spotlight.

At any rate, I'd say let them burn the book. Then they can pay the library for damages and processing fees for buying a new book. Then they'll try to file a counter-suit after they refuse to play, citing religious reasons. And then the state justice department will shut them up, and shut them down.

And then that will be that.

Of course, it'd be much faster to just say "screw off, buy your own copy", and save everyone a whole lot of time. More time to go praise Jesus, right? Right.

The $100 grand in damages is just obvious bullshit.

How about a legal claim to burn bibles? because contains explicit violence, sexism, racism, among other things.