ALAN MOORE IS THE NEW PORNOGRAPHY

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Or, “Fear and Loathing In Lexington KY, Part 2”.

Remember that story about the two library workers in Lexington, KY who lost their jobs for deliberately blocking an 11-year-old from checking out a copy of Alan Moore’s The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Black Dossier from an 11-year-old girl, which they did because one of them felt the images were so shocking she required prayer to cope with the trauma?

Apparently the incident came up at a library board meeting, where supporters of the library workers offered a petition demanding that not only LOEG: BD be removed permanently for obscenity, but also the following:

• Snuff, by Chuck Palahniuk
• Choke (based on a novel by Chuck Palahniuk), DVD
• Ron White: You Can’t Fix Stupid, DVD

Why? Because they encourage sexual predators. Obviously.

Meanwhile, televangelist Earl Lee Watts weighs in, waving a copy of LOEG: BD:

“If this is not pornography, what is?”

Luckily, it wasn’t all fear and pitchforks:

DeWayne Brewer, Brookside Baptist's pastor, asking for a little common sense, warned that if the Bible ever went into graphic novel form, the banning committee would have something to really fret about.

Which I guess means that Robert Crumb's Book Of Genesis and the Manga Bible won't be available on Kentucky's library shelves anytime soon.

FULL DISCLOSURE: I’m generally a fan of Alan Moore, but while I have read the first volume of LOEG and liked it, I haven’t read Black Dossier (due chiefly to international licensing issues). But I fully intend to get me a copy now.

Thanks for the recommendation, Fraidycat Christian Librarians!

Church of the poisoned mind,

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