One of the more stunning bits of recent bureaucratic mismanagement at the Federal level is how they have decided they will provide lists of books addressing religious subjects that will be allowed in prison libraries. All other religious books will be removed. (No word on what happens to them, yet. Anyone think matches will be involved?)
There are no Unitarian Universalist titles. No doubt because UUs don’t go to prison… Yeah. Sure… (Sorry for the tone. I guess this puts me in a bad mood…) I looked at the Buddhist bibliography and thought it wasn’t bad. But, my goodness, what are they thinking. Hasn’t anyone in the Federal Government read the Bill of Rights recently?
Philocrites provided links to New York Times leaked bibliographies by category: Bahai, Buddhist, Catholic, General Spirituality, Hindu, Islam, Jehovah’s Witnesses, Judaism, Messianic, Mormon, Nation of Islam, Native American, Orthodox, Other Religions (a list featuring only two books, both Christian Science-related), Pagan, Protestant (titled “Christian” on the document itself),Rastafarian, Sikh, and Yoruba.
Last I heard they’ve postponed enforcing the removal of books not on these lists (or lists very similar). But the Administration that allows this isn’t going away for way too long. (Don’t forget if we get to impeach, go for the Vice-President first…)
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