An Alabama lawmaker who sought to ban gay marriages now wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries,” reports Kim Chandler in a Birmingham News story. Saying he’s trying to protect children from the “homosexual agenda,” Rep. Gerald Allen (R-Cottondale), has filed a bill that would prohibit using public funds for “the purchase of textbooks or library materials that recognize or promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle.” He says, “Our culture, how we know it today, is under attack from every angle,” and that if his bill passes, “novels with gay protagonists and college textbooks that suggest homosexuality is natural would have to be removed from library shelves and destroyed.” “I guess we dig a big hole and dump them in and bury them,” he tells Chandler. Southern Poverty Law Center spokesman Mark Potok says, “It sounds like Nazi book burning to me.” Allen’s bill also “would ban materials that recognize or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of Alabama,” reports Chandler. “Allen said that meant books with heterosexual couples committing those acts likely would be banned, too.” Montgomery City-County Library director Juanita Coles commented, “Half the books in the library could end up being banned.”