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TexasTowelie

(111,304 posts)
Tue Aug 26, 2014, 11:32 PM Aug 2014

Texas Pastor Calls For Removal of "Demonic" Twilight Books From Library

There's at least one person who's not torn between Team Jacob and Team Edward.

A Cleveland, Texas pastor has called for the removal of the popular Twilight series from the local library, claiming that the "sexual element" and "creatures that aren't human" are dangerous for young readers.

Missick also thinks teens should have parental approval to check out such books. Currently, library policy requires parental consent for minors to get a library card.

As reported by ABC 13:

Pastor Phillip Missick of King of Saints Tabernacle, a Messianic church, filed a complaint with Austin Memorial Library, Cleveland's public library, asking that many fiction books on vampires, demons and the supernatural be purged. He says he was stunned to find the young adult section full of books like "Blood Promise," "Twilight," and the "Vampire Knight" series.

"This is dark. There's a sexual element. You have creatures that aren't human. I think it's dangerous for our kids," said Missick.

Cleveland City Manager Kelly McDonald declined an interview but we have Library Director, Mary Cohn's response to Missick's complaint, as well as to a petition he had signed by a handful of local pastors. She noted only five percent of all the 1,500 titles in the teen section deal with occult, vampires and the supernatural, and then spoke to the mission of a public library saying materials should not be chosen or removed because of partisan or doctrinal disapproval.


Read more: http://www.burntorangereport.com/diary/15617/texas-pastor-calls-for-removal-of-demonic-twilight-books-from-library
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Trillo

(9,154 posts)
2. Vampires stories have always seemed to me like a metaphor
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 02:22 AM
Aug 2014

What sucks blood? Money represents blood sweat and tears (labor), so the vampires are the 1%.

I'm not sure what he means by the sexual references, but we all know that Christianity has sexual repression projections. Jesus was claimed conceived immaculately, born from a virgin mother who never had sex or saw a sperm, never ever!

Ilsa

(61,675 posts)
4. Yeah, my biggest fear is that my kids will
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 06:32 AM
Aug 2014

grow up and become vampires or werewolves.

What. An. Idiot.

I guess he thinks kids should remain children forever.

RussBLib

(8,984 posts)
7. You should always be skeptical...
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 08:35 AM
Aug 2014

of anyone from a church with an odd name, like "King of Saints Tabernacle," or "The Lord Down by the River Bank," etc etc. These are the people that repeatedly get in trouble with the law for sex abuse, theft, forgery, assault, etc etc. It's like anyone who leads or has a position of authority in such a church knows that the flock here will be especially gullible. These people can't seem to get along in a mainstream church.

Religion and politics do not mix well.

Javaman

(62,439 posts)
8. whatever, they should be removed because they are awful.
Wed Aug 27, 2014, 03:11 PM
Aug 2014

but given the fact that this fundie feels they are "demonic", I would want them kept in the library purely out of spite now.

LOL

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