Last week, McMinn County made news when the school board voted to ban beloved graphic novel Maus — a Holocaust story told with anthropomorphic mice and cats — due to instances of swear words and nudity. While the vote happened in early January, it went viral following a report from TN Holler.
Last night, Mt. Juliet pastor and pro-Trump conspiracy theorist Greg Locke decided to turn it up a notch by organizing an old-fashioned book burning. The books included millennial staples like Harry Potter and Twilight — hits of the early Aughts that were targeted by Christian book burnings back in the day.
In a sermon preceding the bonfire, Locke described beefing with "Free Mason devils" and said "I ain't gonna be 'suiciding myself' no time soon." Locke also said people aren't mad that they were burning books, but mad because of the books they were burning — implying that his critics, even other pastors, were devil and witchcraft supporters.
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I guess I could use some rearranging
Yep, our once treasured reputation for having some progressive ideas has been thoroughly trashed.
NC will never live down Jesse Helms.
I would like to quote capitalist Ringo Starr’s cheeky rejoinder to Beatle-record burners in all the usual confederate backwaters way back when (“They’ll just have to go out and buy the records again, so it’s a win-win for us” , is a paraphrase), but the infestation of the conservative movement Confederacy seems to have gone national now, so humoring them is no longer a choice in preserving America.
Their bonfires deserve a national conflagration.