Cross Post: A Prayer to St. Dudash-Buskirk, Patron Saint of Rhetoric and BDSM (Satire)

An Intercessory Appeal to the Only One With Power to Actually Help In the name of the ALA, and of EveryLibrary, and of the Holy Institutional Backing, Amen.

By David Rice

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 St. Dudash-Buskirk, PhD in Rhetoric, Professor at Missouri State University, backed by the American Library Association and EveryLibrary, hear my prayer.

I come before you as a supplicant, a lone citizen without credentials, without institutional backing, without the organizational power that you wield so effortlessly. I have already prayed to St. Michael the Archangel at a library board meeting (at the 4:00 minute mark) and you found that offensive. But I understand now my mistake.

 St. Michael cannot help me with earthly institutions. He has no PhD. He holds no university position. He commands no professional networks. He cannot call the Attorney General or write academic papers or leverage organizational backing. He only fights as the commander of God’s angelic armies, so it’s not real power.

But you have real power and you can help me.

So I pray to you instead, O Patron Saint of Rhetoric and Institutional Power, that you might intercede on behalf of the marginalized—a role you claim as your sacred calling.

First Petition: For Sight to See Who is Marginalized

St. Dudash-Buskirk, grant me understanding of your Critical Theory of Power.

You teach that we must identify who holds power and who is powerless. You proclaim the importance of protecting marginalized voices against institutional authority. You celebrate speaking truth to power and challenging entrenched systems.

So I ask: Why do you not intercede on my behalf?

What you claim to value:

• Speaking truth to power

• Challenging entrenched institutions

• Protecting marginalized voices

• Exposing institutional corruption

• Resisting institutional authority

What I actually do:

• Expose institutional corruption (staff illegally suing the board)

• Challenge entrenched power (administration covering up violations)

• Speak truth to power (one citizen vs. PhDs, ALA, MSU, EveryLibrary)

• Protect citizens from institutional overreach (BDSM instructions for teenagers)

• Resist institutional authority (refuse to be “handled” by administrators)

Your institutional backing:

• PhD in Rhetoric from a major university

• Teaching position at Missouri State University

• American Library Association

• EveryLibrary (national lobbying organization)

• Professional credentials and networks

• Executive Director Will Blydenburgh (your ally)

• Media sympathy

• Friends who rally around you

• Career advancement opportunities

My backing:

• A library book

• A prayer you found offensive

• No credentials

• No organization

• No church support (they reject this fight)

• No professional network

• Lost friends

• Increasing isolation

Under your own framework, I am the marginalized voice. You are the institutional power.

Yet you defend the institution and attack me.

St. Dudash-Buskirk, intercede that I might understand this mystery.

Second Petition: For the Contradiction of Words

Holy Mother of Relativism, you teach that all truth is constructed, that moral claims are mere power plays.

Yet you called my reading “salacious.”

If the book isn’t salacious on the shelf for teenagers, why is it salacious when I quote it?

The content didn’t change. The speaker changed.

You cannot claim both that books are neutral information AND that my speech is harmful. If words have no meaning, then “salacious” is meaningless, your objection is meaningless, your entire Facebook post is meaningless.

But if words have power—if language shapes reality—then my prayer has power (that’s why you objected), my reading has power (that’s why you called it salacious), and the book’s content has power (that’s why it matters what’s in the library).

You use language to convey meaning while teaching that meaning doesn’t exist.

The word “salacious” has no place in your worldview. But you used it anyway, because you know words carry moral weight. You just don’t want to admit that truth applies to the books you defend.

St. Dudash-Buskirk, intercede that you might recognize the contradiction you embody.

Is it wrong for adults to participate in BDSM or Kink? If so, why? If not, why not?

You won’t answer. You deflect to authorities (ALA, Freedom to Read), make pop culture references, claim I violated decorum.

But here’s the simplest question: Why should strangers instruct children in sexual practices?

This isn’t a parent answering their child’s questions. This is institutional strangers giving sexual values to children as if values don’t exist.

If sex has no value, then rape is not a crime.

Answer the question or admit words mean something.

St. Dudash-Buskirk, intercede that you might answer what you refuse to address.

Third Petition: For Justice in the Matter of the Edited Video

O Defender of Institutional Prerogatives, I bring before you a documented case of public records destruction.

The public meeting video was edited to remove Tory Pegram’s challenge to the board’s oversight authority. This is a Sunshine Law violation—the destruction and alteration of public records to hide inconvenient challenges to institutional power.

Read the rest here.

Jacob Marley's Lesson

Fred Barnard

By Gretchen Garrity

 

  "I wear the chain I forged in life. I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?” Jacob Marley's Ghost in A Christmas Carol

MSU Professor Elizabeth Dudash-Buskirk's eternal soul is in trouble. While she claims to be a Christian, she nevertheless promotes salacious (her own term) books for minors in the Christian County Library. One such book was quoted from at the December board of trustees meeting: Sex Plus. Here is a review of the book: Sex Plus is a Youth Book in Nixa by David Rice--but before you visit the review, here is what Dudash-Buskirk said about it in a recent Facebook post:

"First, we had David Rice who first prayed, then read law, then engaged a salacious YA book that described pretty accurately the common teen experience of masturbation, questions about sexual guidelines or what is normal."

Now, try to square that with the book review by Rice. The book contains subheadings like "Strap-ons," "Cleaning Sex Toys," "Prostate Massager," "Butt Plugs and Anal Beads,"Vibrators," "Visiting the Sex Shop," and more than you can imagine.

Now according to the Catholic Church, of which Dudash-Buskirk claims to be a member, masturbation is a sin against the Sixth Commandment. Protestants of different types are on the fence, but in general, masturbation is frowned upon. Viewing pornography is almost a given with masturbation.

Promoting books like Sex Plus (which is written for ages 12-17), is a sin against God and an attack on children. Claiming to be a Christian as a way of virtue signaling while violating its precepts is also a sin.

Professor Dudash-Buskirk also claims to be a free speech advocate. But if it is speech she personally objects to, her thought is that it must be controlled, suppressed, and censored. In her own words (click on the image for clarity):

One can see the confusion, which is a hallmark of the demonic. I wrote about it HERE. Professor Dudash-Buskirk does not want books like Sex Plus exposed to the public. It makes her job of interpreting "free speech" rights look downright satanic (and it is). According to her, quoting salacious books in a public library meeting is unacceptable, as is prayer speech. But one must never question a child's "freedom to read" a salacious book that some book publisher or librarian or the American Library Assocation has deemed acceptable.

Enough.

Beginning around the 3:20 minute mark (it should be prompted), you can listen to Rice's comments and then Professor Dudash-Buskirk. Listen for yourself and decide which individual is seeking to protect children and preserve parental rights.

The chains one forges in life will continue afterwards. Ebenezer Scrooge saw the light before it was too late, unlike his business associate Jacob Marley. My prayer is that those who support exposing children to highly-charged sexualization will see the light before they too are weighed down with the chains of sin un-confessed and un-forsaken.

ΨΥΧΗΣ ΙΑΤΡΕΙΟΝ

 

The Abbey library of St Gall is one of the oldest monastic libraries in the world

Above the entrance door is a Greek inscription, ΨΥΧΗΣ ΙΑΤΡΕΙΟΝ (psukhēs iatreion), which translates to “healing place for the soul.” This wording is inspired by an inscription found at the Library… pic.twitter.com/m5mqxbBhd5

— James Lucas (@JamesLucasIT) December 4, 2025

 

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