An Alabama lawmaker wants to ban all books, fiction and nonfiction, that depict homosexuality as anything other than an abomination.

You get one guess if he's a Republican or a Democrat.

The highlights:

"Our culture, how we know it today, is under attack from every angle," Allen said in a press conference Tuesday.

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.

"It sounds like Nazi book burning to me," said [Southern Poverty Law Center] spokesman Mark Potok.

When asked about Tennessee Williams' southern classic "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof," Allen said the play probably couldn't be performed by university theater groups.

"Half the books in the library could end up being banned. It's all based on how one interprets the material," [Jaunita Owes, director of the Montgomery City-County Library] said.

The lawmaker is stupid, but his party allegiance has hardly anything to do with the matter.

It's not as if Democrats never want to ban certain books.

is there an implication here that there is no democrat against homosexuality??

Is there an implication here that all democrats have the exact way of thinking and all republicans have the exact way of thinking and their parts cannot cross?

Why is it republicans always have to counterattack with something "democrats do too?"

Where did you run too?

Why is it republicans always have to counterattack with something "democrats do too?"

no where. I just find it odd how every matter must be tied in with people's political agenda ..... ever considered people being anti-gay just because they are .... and not having anything to do with the fact that theyre republicans or democrats or cats or wooden tables

I see you still enjoy coming up with those strawmen.

no where. I just find it odd how every matter must be tied in with people's political agenda ..... ever considered people being anti-gay just because they are .... and not having anything to do with the fact that theyre republicans or democrats or cats or wooden tables

You're right. It's not because of their political party. It's because their hateful bigots.

I see you continue to use a flimsy "nickname," whenever some points out something wrong with your party :wink:

I think what he meant was, on average majorty of republicans are conservative...most conservatives are "anti-gay"

I think what he meant was, on average majorty of republicans are conservative...most conservatives are "anti-gay"

Of course this lawmaker is stupid, but I don't find this to be "book burning" or censorship.

Great logic. You should take over Maureen Dowd's spot, once she retires from NY Times.

True,
I still cannot believe in this day and age, our society still has this....phobia...hate for gay people. It's disgusting

yes i understood that ... my point being ... its almost deliberate to start up a debate on it ... its a cheap pot shot towards people who associate with a certain thing ..... this is about a guy who doesn't like gay people ... not about a guy who doesn't like gay people cause hes republicans.

It's not as if Democrats never want to ban certain books.

not really a phobia .... its an unacceptance.