Is there something in the water in Alabama? (book banning)

[donsu]

http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/index.ssf?/base/news/1101896768316400.xml


Gay book ban goal of state lawmaker

An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries.

A bill by Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, would prohibit the use of public funds for "the purchase of textbooks or library materials that recognize or promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle." Allen said he filed the bill to protect children from the "homosexual agenda."

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Allen said that if his bill passes, novels with gay protagonists and college textbooks that suggest homosexuality is natural would have to be removed from library shelves and destroyed.

"I guess we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them," he said.
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would somebody tie Allen to his kitchen chair and not let him out of the house ever again.

are Alabamians that ignorant?

[sui generis]

1. why do they think being straight is a life and being gay is a lifestyle?

There's a problem right there. It is NOT a lifestyle. It's our life, same as theirs.

I am for rounding them all up and putting them in Rapture Preparation Camps somewhere out in the deep desert.

[displacedtexan]

2. The problem is that they've never been anywhere...

Their idea of European travel is the Las Vegas Strip.

They've never been exposed to anyone the slightest bit different from themselves.

[MountainLaurel]

7. How true

Though it's not just Alabama. At a party earlier this year, my BF had a discussion with some folks talking about how great the Paris Las Vegas hotel is, and how its food is just like in France.

:scared:

[Killarney]

3. Thankfully not all Alabamians are ignorant.

But unfortunately, the majority of voters in the state seem to elect people that are.

This really pisses me off. When I read articles like this (book burning, etc) I really think we're headed towards another Dark Age.

[TexasSissy]

4. This is scary. Fahrenheit 451?

[ClintonTyree]

5. Good 'ole 'Bama Baptists................

the most ignorant and bigoted "Xtians" (I will not use the word 'Christian' to describe them) on the planet. And people wonder why northerners have stereotyped them. They are walking cliches, dumber than stumps and so repelled by anything that may enlighten them. They're scared of change. They want their slaves back and a complete return to the 'old south' of the early 19th century.

[donsu]

6. had a conversation with a N.C. baptist woman - shocker

she said her religion did not allow her to look at her own naked body or in the mirror. men could, women could not. she said she had seen her naked brothers but not her ownself

how sad is that.

[MountainLaurel]

8. Holy shit

:wow:

[Done]

13. Does she take a bath?

:wow:

[genieroze]

9. Hell, why don't we just have public lynchings

That's the only way these anal retentive jerk offs can get their rocks off. That and molesting kids.

http://www.geocities.com/arthursank/sexualmorality.html

[Tweed]

10. Where's Charles Barkley when you need him?

:shrug:

[genieroze]

11. "I guess we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them,"

Someone should dig a big hole and dump and bury his retarded ass. Use a tombstone that says here lies a book burning bigot. Sig Heil

[malmapus]

12. Book Burnings to follow shortly - N/T

..

[Lisa]

14. I just heard about this from a librarian friend in Alabama

She says, "There are going to be a lot of empty shelves in this building if this whacko gets his way!"