I Won't Now, Nor Will I Ever Vote for a Book-Burner

quoth Time Magazine (via Boing Boing):

Time Magazine says that when Sarah Palin took office as mayor, she approached the town librarian and asked how to go about banning books from the town library:

[Former Wasilla mayor] Stein says that as mayor, Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. “She asked the library how she could go about banning books,” he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. “The librarian was aghast.” The librarian, Mary Ellen Baker, couldn’t be reached for comment, but news reports from the time show that Palin had threatened to fire her for not giving “full support” to the mayor.

Even if you take out every other philosophical difference between the Republican ticket's platform (and the individual platforms of their presidential and vice-presidential candidates) and my own thoughts about what's best for the country, this alone is enough to put me off them for good. I will never, never, ever vote for a book-burner.

So here's your chance. If you can show me any time (reputable sources please, FoxNews doesn't count) that Obama or Biden has led some sort of book-banning campaign (I'm not holding my breath) then I guess I won't have anyone to vote for in November, and I'll have to stay home and knit.

I despise censorship and the tiny little minds behind it in any arena. There are amendments to the U.S. Constitution other than the second, notably the first, the fourth, and the sixth. (Cheat Sheet) I really wish that it seemed like some of our politicians would fight just as hard to uphold the entire document as they do to argue for the amendments that speak to them the loudest, or, more likely, are more attractive to their constituency.