lmao she’s a legislator’s wife!

Legislator says wife’s post about Little Free Libraries was misconstrued

State Rep. Stephen Meeks said today that his wife’s Facebook post about swapping Little Free Library books was misconstrued and “blown completely out of proportion. She’s not removing books that she disagrees with and does not advocate … that anybody else do that,” Meeks, a Republican from Greenbrier, said. We reported Monday that Jennifer Meeks had posted on Facebook recently that she was replacing books that don’t match her own religious values. According to Stephen Meeks, though, that’s not true.

Meeks said his wife’s Facebook post was misconstrued by “a leftist, activist group” and resulted in “a complete lie” that’s now “going all over Facebook.” Meeks said his wife has not been taking LGBTQ Pride material and “is not advocating that anybody take any of the Pride material unless they want to” and then “not for nefarious reasons.”

Rather, Meeks said, his wife is adding Christian-related books as well as history, science and other books. Sometimes, she will remove a worn-out history book, for example, and replace it with one in better condition, he said. “The point that she was trying to make is that she saw the Pride material in there. As Christians, it would be a good opportunity that we too should be stocking those resources with Bibles, devotionals, things like that,” Meeks said. “In other words, we want to give people more choice, and I think everybody would agree that having more choice is a good thing.”

Meeks said his wife did not want to discuss the matter. The Faulkner County Coalition for Social Justice recently took Jennifer Meeks to task for her Facebook comments and reposted a screenshot of her post along with its own statement. (The original Facebook post is not public due to privacy settings.) You can read the coalition’s post, which includes Jennifer Meeks’ original comments below.