Did pro-gay tome earn Palin's ire? (Book Banning news - new)

[FreeState]

http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/2008/09/did-pro-gay-tom.html

While old claims are being shot down, new claims are emerging about the books Sarah Palin allegedly tried to have banned while serving as mayor of Wasilla, AK. And amongst these new revelations is a claim from a former reporter for Wasilla's Frontiersman newspaper, Paul Stuart, who says that one of the books was a pro-queer title called Pastor, I am Gay This from PolitiFact:

Stuart told PolitiFact that in a conversation with Emmons after his article ran, she listed three titles. He said he could recall only two, and initially said they were I Told My Parents I’m Gay and I Asked My Sister. We looked for these titles; they don’t appear to exist.

“ told me that Palin asked her directly to remove these books from the shelves,” Stuart said. “She refused.”

Asked later if the first book could have been Pastor, I am Gay, a controversial book written by a pastor who lives just outside Wasilla, Stuart said that was it.

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And there's still more, this time from ABCNews.com:

Palin's church at the time, the Assembly of God, had been pushing for the removal a book called "Pastor I Am Gay" from local bookstores, according to the book's author Pastor Howard Bess, of the Church of the Covenant in nearby Palmer, Alaska.

"And she was one of them," said Bess, "this whole thing of controlling information, censorship, that's part of the scene," said Bess.

[Ian David]

1. I wonder if the more outrageous version of this tale was chaff thrown-up by KKKarl Rove. n/t