Current Events > Damaged in the head religious nutcase burns LGBT books from library and posts...

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https://www.macon.com/news/nation-world/national/article220462715.html

An Iowa man posted video on Facebook Friday as he tossed childrens and young adult library books with LGBTQ themes into a fire.

You wont be peddling this one anymore, Paul Dorr said in the 30-minute video, as he tossed a picture book into the fire. You should all be ashamed of yourselves and repent.

Dorr said he burned the books in part as a response to the second-annual LGBTQ pride festival in Orange City, Iowa, over the weekend, the Sioux City Journal reports. Dorr is director of Rescue the Perishing, a pro-life and anti-gay group in northwest Iowa, according to the newspaper. Dorr also said he was upset about classroom sex talk an apparent reference to sexual education in schools as well as churches that embrace homosexuality.

Orange Citys library said its looking into potential legal action following the incident, the Des Moines Register reports.

Frankly, I found it disgusting. We are disturbed to see this, said Mark Stringer, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Iowa, according to the Register. Burning books from a public library is a clear attempt to shut down the open sharing and discussion of ideas. Its one person, or maybe a group, deciding that theyre the gatekeeper of ideas for the rest of the public.

Dorr tossed four Orange City Public Library books into the flames, according to the Sioux City Journal: Two Boys Kissing, This Day in June, Morris Micklewhite and the Tangerine Dress and Families, Families, Families!

For most of the video, Dorr explains his opposition to the sexual revolution, to homosexuality and to abortion. Hes sitting next a fire pit on a sunny day with a body of water behind him. At times, Dorrs voice is barely audible over the wind.

But about 25 minutes into the video, Dorr starts to pull out the books hes apparently checked out from the library, and explains why he thinks theyre inappropriate.

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He's sure doing a lot. Burning books from the library. That'll destroy history for sure.
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He's gonna have to pay to replace them lolol
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which CEmen is this?
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Damaged in the head religious nutcase

This is massively redundant
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Don't burn books. And it's especially gross when people do it for bigotry reasons.

I'll bet he knows and loves gay people who are afraid to share that part of themselves with him because they don't know if his love for them can overcome his homophobia. Most of us know someone. When he does this, it's a glowing indicator to that person that he or she can never be themselves around him and that they either have to stay in the closet or cut him out of their lives.
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dj1200 posted...

He's sure doing a lot. Burning books from the library. That'll destroy history for sure.

Right? The guy is an idiot if he actually believes burning a couple books is somehow going to erase gay people.

Space_Man posted...

He's gonna have to pay to replace them lolol

That he is.
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Space_Man posted...

He's gonna have to pay to replace them lolol

Yeah wtf was the point of that

hollow_shrine posted...

Don't burn books. And it's especially gross when people do it for bigotry reasons.

I'll bet he knows and loves gay people who are afraid to share that part of themselves with him because they don't know if his love for them can overcome his homophobia. Most of us know someone. When he does this, it's a glowing indicator to that person that he or she can never be themselves around him and that they either have to stay in the closet or cut him out of their lives.

Yup.
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Did he burn copies of @Renault 's favorite manga
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Burning his own money.
I'm sure that library would get a shit load of donations if they wanted to make it into an issue.
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Fucking lunatic
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Who the fuck does this bitch think he is? How dare he check out books from a public library and destroy them. I'm fucking pissed. I want him hung upside down by his toes and beaten with high school textbooks from Mississippi.
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Zach_is_back posted...

Fucking lunatic

he's an Xtian, personified
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Insane
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But conservatives that complain that tearing down statues is "destroying history" are okay with this.
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