Arkansas is firing public librarians for resisting book bans

... and the fact that the Radical Right has now moved beyond school libraries to public libraries is not even the scary part of the story.

The scary part is the River Valley City Elders (better known in my mind Doddering Old Guys of the Republic of Gilead):

The problem was that Grzymala respected all library patrons, even those of the LGBTQ community so she offered books they too wanted to read. That did not go over well with the new library board chairman, Tammi Hamby, or the frankly scary River Valley City Elders, the organization with the mascot lion and a claim that the group’s “watchmen” spiritually govern the gates of the valley’s cities.

Here they are in all their glory:

Hoo boy ... We are in some deep trouble.