27 April 2014 (02:43 UTC-07 Tango)/26 Jumada t-Tania 1435/07 Ordibehesht 1393/28 Wu-Chen 4712

At the beginning of the month School District 2, the largest in Idaho, banned a fictional book about a Native American’s experience in an all white Christian environment.

A local book store, along with the publisher of the book, retaliated by crowdsourcing enough money to give away 350 copies of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian.  A high school student took some of the books to Kleiner Park in Meridian, to give them away, for free even!

Well that riled some asshole Christians who called the cops and demanded that the girl be arrested for exercising her 1st Amendment Rights!

A Boise TV station reported that Meridian cops responded to the book giveaway, but found nothing in violation of the laws!  No arrests made, and the book giveaway was not stopped.

Apparently all but 20 of the books found new homes, and the publisher plans more book giveaways in the future.