Imagine for a moment that you are a God-fearing, Christian citizen of the United States. You have brainwashed your children with fantastical stories of floods and genocide, horrified them from a young age with the promise of eternal damnation if they don’t believe you, and instilled in them your bigoted and hateful view of the world. As teenagers, your two children are browsing the library for books on military academies and stumble upon a text of quite a different sort, titled “The Whole Lesbian Sex Book.” What would you do?
Well, if your answer is that you would raise holy hell and sue the city for $20,000, then either you think like Earl Adams or you’ve already read about him. ‘Tis true — Mr. Adams says that the city of Bentonville, Arkansas should pay each of his sons $10K, which is “the maximum allowed under the Arkansas obscenity law.” His basis for the suit is this:
Earl Adams said his 14- and 16-year-old sons were “greatly disturbed”
after finding the book, titled “The Whole Lesbian Sex Book.” Adams said
the book caused “many sleepless nights in our house.”
Not knowing the full story, we can only guess what really happened. If we are to believe Mr. Adams, then not only is he a Moron, he’s also an abusive parent. If the two lads really were so deeply disturbed at finding a book on lesbian sex, so much so that they lost sleep over several nights, one can only blame their father for foisting his twisted view of the world upon their impressionable minds. Someone should challenge his fitness for fatherhood on the grounds that he has been mentally abusing his children.
I’m more inclined to believe that while searching for books on military academies, the two hormonally-charged boys took a detour to another section of the library to find something a bit more stimulating. Their narrow-minded, hate-blinded father caught them with the “patently offensive” text and immediately sought a scapegoat (as many American parents tend to do these days). In this case, the city was the most obvious target. Right now, he’s probably wishing he could have worked video games into it somehow so that he could sue for more money.
As for the book in question:
The book, by Felice Newman, is a sex guide deemed suitable for all
public libraries, according to the Library Journal, which the
Bentonville library uses to decide what to place on its shelves.
While he apparently won’t be getting any money, the ruckus he caused did result in the library’s advisory board voting to remove the book from circulation. They said they would replace it with one that takes a “more sensitive, more clinical approach.” And Adams vowed to ensure the book never makes it back on the shelf again:
He said he would fight any effort to put the book back on shelves.
“Any effort to reinstate the book will be met with legal action and protests
from the Christian community,” Adams wrote in the e-mail.
So I name Earl Adams the seventh Moron of the Week. It’s not enough for him to force his antiquated view of the world on his own children, he has to force it on others as well. Of course, the advisory board of the Bentonville library deserve their share of criticism for giving in to a cretin like Adams. It’s little victories like that which embolden these nutjobs to continue their delusional crusade to reverse 2000 years of social progress.
If the world is able to survive religious stupidity, morons like Earl Adams will eventually become a footnote in history. Their actions will be the mistakes that future generations will learn not to repeat.
Congratulations, Earl!
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