The Battle Over The Meeting Room Never Ends

the portable Norm Snider
In an e-mail to Overstreet and board president Mike Fields on Jan. 24, [Norm] Snider objected to a program titled “Religions of the World,” sponsored by the Bahais of Frankfort. An item in the Library News column in the Jan. 21 State Journal, said the library was co-sponsoring the program.
The newspaper column, submitted by the library staff, said the program would be “an overview of nine world religions. Some religions being discussed will be Judaism, Islam, Bahai and other various indigenous beliefs throughout the world.

I think this means that Norm wants to burn the reference collection and the 200s. I’m not sure though. If you read the whole article you’ll find Norm a subtle and wily thinker.

Snider, in his e-mail, said it seems the Religions of the World program “is contrary to our recent regulations for the (library) meeting rooms, and is contrary to federal and state laws of separation of church and state.”
An overview of nine world religions “is the standard line of the Bahaists to bolster their claim they are a significant world religion, which they are not,” Snider said.

I think Norm’s position as Vice President of the Library Board places what is or is not a “significant” world religion out of his jurisdiction.

He believes the program is “clearly a disguised project for proselytizing for the Bahai religion. If we allow the Bahai to proselytize in a program co-sponsored by PSPL (the library), can we refuse any other religious group, such as the church of Dr. Moon, who hide their true intents behind ‘educational programs?

You know what? This is just rude. He’s so sure they’re gonna start mixing up Kool-Aid and eyein’ the womenfolk. Oh suuuuuuuuure, they’re all love and peace and learning, but oh no. Let me tell you how those theivin’, rascally Bahai get down.

“The Bahai is opposed by many other religious groups

It’s the First Church of People Who Are Norm Snider, isn’t it?

and is considered by many, including this writer (Snider), to be an offbeat cult.”

I knew it.

Better wipe that smirk off your face, Norm. The only difference between a cult and a religion is time and numbers.