Library Books in Maine Stuffed
with “Jesus” Dollars
At Colby College in Waterville, Maine, campus security pulled thousands of fake $100 bills with Christian religious messages from hundreds of library books after students alerted officials that they had found the bills in the gay and lesbian literature section and suspected they targeted homosexuals.
However, the phony bills have been found everywhere in the stacks for the past five years, library Director Suanne Muehlner told American Libraries. Staff only have time to pull the bills out of books when they’re shelved or checked out, Muehlner noted. “I don’t have the staff to run around pulling them” out of books on the shelves, she said.
“I have no idea who is doing this,” Muehlner said in the October 28 Waterville Morning Sentinel. “I assume it is the work of religious zealots who do not have the sense to realize how counterproductive this vandalism is.”
Muehlner said that staff at nearby Bates College, Bowdoin College, and the Waterville Public Library had reported finding similar bills. The latest version features a portrait of Al Gore and reads, “This is counterfeit but Jesus is the real thing.”
Posted November 4, 2002.
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