Earlier this morning, I posted about Jennifer Meeks, the spouse of an Arkansas GOP Congressman, who posted to Fb that she has been “swapping out books in little free libraries for awhile,” including “From what I’ve seen, lots of these books and different issues do not align with our Christian values. As we speak I noticed a bunch of Delight stuff in a single.”
Meeks mentioned she was including Bibles, “good devotion books,” and “youngsters’ Bible tales.” She added, “a gospel tract is a pleasant thought too.” She informed one commenter on Fb, “I’ve taken out a nasty one and left a very good one as an alternative.”
Meeks has drawn fairly a little bit of criticism for her self-appointed position as an officer of the promotion of Christian advantage and prevention of Non-Christian vice squad, a lot in order that her husband, Jeff Meeks, has stepped in with a doubtful clarification. He informed The Arkansas Occasions that her assertion about “swapping out” “unhealthy” books was about changing worn-out copies of books with newer variations, not eradicating Delight books and changing them with Christian books.
He additionally complained to Newsweek that darn communists had been twisting her phrases for nefarious functions.
Meeks’ husband mentioned that her phrases had been being taken out of context and clarified that she didn’t take out any LGBTQ-related supplies in change for the bibles she has added to the libraries, nor would she advocate for others to do one thing related.
“Any individual on the left took that and interpreted it as my spouse going throughout central Arkansas, pulling Delight books out of those little libraries and changing them with bibles and nothing is farther from the reality,” Stephen Meeks informed Newsweek. “My spouse wouldn’t try this. She wouldn’t advocate for that. She can be against that.”
Above picture from Faulkner County Coalition for Social Justice.