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A monthly feature of the EvilBible.com web site is the award of the Retard of the Month to the person or persons who have demonstrated an exceptional level of public stupidity due to religion. Nominees must be public officials or public figures. Suggestions for future Retards of the Month can be made by e-mailing .
[Note: Due to time constraints this Retard of the Month page will no longer be updated monthly. Future retards will be selected as time allows.]
The Retard of the Month for December 2004 was:
Rep. Allen is being named as The Retard of the Month because of his bill to ban books from libraries that promote the "homosexual agenda" and for his cosponsorship of a bill that would allow the teaching of creationism in public schools.
The Birmingham News reported that Rep Gerald Allen wants to ban novels with gay characters from public libraries, including university libraries.
A bill by Rep. Gerald Allen, R-Cottondale, bill would prohibit the use of public funds for "the purchase of textbooks or library materials that recognize or promote homosexuality as an acceptable lifestyle." Allen said he filed the bill to protect children from the "homosexual agenda." "Our culture, how we know it today, is under attack from every angle," Allen said in a press conference Tuesday. Allen said 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 said. Allen pre-filed his bill in advance of the 2005 legislative session, which begins Feb. 1. If the bill became law, public school textbooks could not present homosexuality as a genetic trait and public libraries couldn't offer books with gay or bisexual characters. When asked about Tennessee Williams' southern classic "Cat On A Hot Tin Roof," Allen said the play probably couldn't be performed by university theater groups. Allen said no state funds should be used to pay for materials that foster homosexuality. He said that would include nonfiction books that suggest homosexuality is acceptable and fiction novels with gay characters. While that would ban books like "Heather has Two Mommies," it could also include classic and popular novels with gay characters such as "The Color Purple," "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and "Brideshead Revisted." The bill also would ban materials that recognize or promote a lifestyle or actions prohibited by the sodomy and sexual misconduct laws of Alabama. Allen said that meant books with heterosexual couples committing those acts likely would be banned, too. His bill also would prohibit a teacher from handing out materials or bringing in a classroom speaker who suggested homosexuality was OK, he said. Rep. Gerald Allen also cosponsored a bill (Alabama's HB391) which explicitly allows the teaching of "creationism" in public schools even though there is no scientific theory of "creationism" and that nearly all legitimate scientific organizations have directly contradicted this nonsense about "creationism" being a valid scientific theory.
The Alabama Sate web site has a brief biography of Rep. Gerald Allen and it says that Allen is a Deacon for Gilgal Baptist Church. It is probably his absurd religious beliefs that caused him to engage in his vile and disgusting homo-hating crusade.
The state of Alabama currently has one of the worst education systems in the US and Rep. Gerald Allen's attempt to cripple science education by allowing the teaching of the religious pseudo-science "creationism" could only make Alabama the laughing stock of the world.
Because of Rep. Gerald Allen's extreme stupidity combined with his religiously induced hate mongering, EvilBible.com is not only naming Gerald Allen as the December 2004 Retard of the Month, we are also asking for his resignation from the Alabama state legislature!
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Alabama State Representative Gerald Allen (R). 
