Reformation Church, a Baptist congregation near Louisville, was featured in a Christian Post article after some of its members checked out books at the Shelby County Public Library. The reason for the news story is the books were checked out with the planned intention to keep them so they never go back on the shelves.
The reason for that decision was the books, all of them children’s books, have homosexual and transgender themes that target innocent children.
Jerry Doris, an elder at Reform Church, told the Post the books, 16 titles in all, have "appalling" content. They are “sexualized, ideological propaganda placed in front of children and teens," he said.
Doris described the decision as a “grassroots” effort by some church members, who noticed the books on the shelves. Their decision to keep the books did not begin with church sermon, he pointed out, but the church has publicly defended what they did.
Dr. Alex McFarland is a Christian apologist and co-host of “Exploring the Word” on American Family Radio. Even though he himself speaks out against LGBT propaganda, McFarland says the church members were wrong to check out the books with the intention of keeping them.
“I disagree with a church having its members check out these books purposely, willfully, knowing that they're not going to return them,” he tells AFN. “There's an old saying it's not right to do wrong to do right.”
McFarland says taking the books with a plan to keep them is stealing, and stealing them is “not the way to ignite a moral reformation in our culture,” he argues.
Back in the Christian Post story, the church elder said keeping the books is not “stealing” from the library. He did say the church members were warned they must be willing to face any consequences, such as a fine, for their actions.
“So this is not ‘stealing,'” Doris insisted. “It is an act of civil disobedience against officials who are abusing public funds to groom children.”
