RandomDent

I can appreciate that they're in a somewhat difficult position, with the law on one side and what's morally right on the other side, but also this is exactly the sort of scenario where everyone needs to band together to demonstrate that an unjust law won't fly, and IMO trying to weasel out of it with a half-measure is just appeasing the wrong side.

In an ideal world all the libraries, schools and publishing companies would just ignore this and carry whatever books they see fit, and give the legislators a choice to either back off or go after them all at the same time.

It really is a "give an inch, take a mile" kind of thing. Like as a society we're already ridiculously generous to religious people - every city has multiple, un-taxed, absurdly opulent buildings for them to use as much as they want to do whatever they like in, plus there are huge networks of religious schools that get tax-payer funding as well, and they're still out in the streets preaching and interfering with almost every other aspect of existence - shutting down libraries, getting films banned or altered, messing with politics etc. It's ludicrous IMO.

I actually had no idea because I always bring things back on time because I'm a square lol, but I looked it up and apparently they got rid of them during the pandemic.