Virginia school board member calls for gay books to be burned
Virginia school board members are calling for the burning of “sexually explicit” books, after a Fredericksburg mother objected to LGBTQ fiction in her child’s high school library app.“I think we should throw those books in a fire,” said Rabih Abuismail, a member of the Spotsylvania County, Virginia School Board, at a meeting on Monday, the Free Lance-Star reports.Fellow board member Kirk Twigg added that he wants to “see the books before we burn them, so we can identify within our community that we are eradicating this bad stuff.”“There are some bad, evil-related material that we have to be careful of and look at,” he said.The call to ban — and potentially burn — books apparently stems from a mother’s discovery that her teenage child could