One of the inevitable side effects of political division that currently poisons the bloodstream of a beautiful country is the inability to resist generalization when pillorying divergent positions and opinions.

A classic example of this is the tendency of Citizens for a New Louisiana, its leader, Michael Lunsford and its adherents to openly express their aim to restructure every single public library in every single parish in Louisiana to conform to the image of their constricted sense of values and morals.

So, rather than suggest that something nefarious might be afoot, I am willing to hypothesize that Lunsford’s lurking in the children’s sections of public libraries is for the purpose of researching for objectionable and inappropriate material, nothing else. That hasn’t always been the case as evidenced by numerous online comments about his furtive, creepy skulking:

What was hate group leader Michael Lunsford doing in the kids’ section of Barnes and Noble today?

Or:

Michael Lunsford is hoarding Lafayette Parish Library books in his office

Or maybe:

Michael Lunsford and Jamie Pope attack conservative military supporter, philanthropist, and owner of Grand Theatre over enforcing mask mandates. This is why good folks don’t want to stay in Louisiana. Grifting over morals.

Or perhaps:

Michael Lunsford and Citizens for a New Louisiana hates Cajun and Creole culture and doesn’t think Acadiana’s unique culture should be celebrated by its institutions.

I happen to subscribe to the philosophy that it’s wrong to toss a blanket characterization over any group. Like when the former guy, after that 2017 white nationalist protest in CHARLOTTESVILLE, said it included “some very fine people on both sides.”

The inconvenient fact that I’ve personally been unable to find any “very fine people” among the white nationalists should not preclude the fact that there may have been one.

Nor would it be fair to suggest that Lunsford may harbor certain latent tendencies of his own considering his long-time involvement with the BOY SCOUTS. He has, by his own assertion, after all, been “happily married” to his wife of 26 years. So, why should he be unnecessarily and unfairly tainted by a SEX SCANDAL that could date all the way back to 1910, the year Boy Scouts of America was founded by the MORMON CHURCH? Shoot, Lunsford probably isn’t even Mormon.

But then the CATHOLIC and BAPTIST churches have their own issues with sexual abuse scandals, so there’s that.

Of course, it’s wrong to paint an entire group with the same broad brush.

But that’s precisely what Citizens for a New Louisiana is doing. Openly PROCLAIMING its intent to impose its standards on libraries in all 64 parishes while launching personal attacks on any librarian or any other citizen who dares resist those efforts.

We would never stoop so low as to make any inference about Lunsford’s proclivity for children’s books, pornography and the Boy Scouts.

That just wouldn’t be right.

(Ordinarily, I would remind readers that this was written tongue-in-cheek, but I’m afraid even that might overload the moral sensibilities of Lunsford and Citizens for a New Louisiana.)