Just yesterday I was reading a news story about a public library that put warning labels on certain of their books. Many people in the town attended library board meeting to complain. They told the board that it was nonsense that books that contained gay or trans characters had big, bright 'sexually explicit content' stickers on them, especially books that contain no sexual content at all, let alone explicit.

The board didn't even listen to them, according to the reporter who attended the meeting and wrote up the story. Instead of listening, they were talking among themselves and reading budget material in preparation for the next agenda item.

A board member later stood up and told them that the board was representing the "majority of decent people" who did not come to the meeting but who do not approve of "sexualized books" in their public library.

So, in that town, books with any queer characters will continue to have big bright warning labels on them, including a nonfiction book about a gay couple adopting and raising several children with disabilities, a book that contains no passages about people having sex — gay, straight, or otherwise.

But the Bible, which as you and several of the people with that meeting pointed out, contains plenty of accounts of rape and incest, carries no such label. Neither do many other books in that library, like steamy straight romance pulps.

One of the meeting attendees even read a passage out from one of those romances, which featured the woman narrator describing how she "got wet" looking at a man's muscular waxed chest.

That book doesn't get a warning label, but a story about two gay men raising a kid to overcome cerebral palsy — that's indecent and sexualized, deserving of a big bright label to stigmatize whoever might dare check it out.

And so it goes.