You can’t make this stuff up.

“It’s just all kinds of filth,” said Alton Verm, adding that he had not read “Fahrenheit 451.” “The words don’t need to be brought out in class. I want to get the book taken out of the class.”

He looked through the book and found the following things wrong with the book: discussion of being drunk, smoking cigarettes, violence, “dirty talk,” references to the Bible and using God’s name in vain. He said the book’s material goes against their religions beliefs. The Verms go to Grand Parkway Church in Porter.

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Alton Verm’s request to ban “Fahrenheit 451″ came during the 25th annual Banned Books Week. He and Hines said the request to ban “Fahrenheit 451,” a book about book burning, during Banned Books Weeks is a coincidence.

A highly amusing coincidence though. Hey Alton, if you want to ban books that contain “discussion of being drunk, smoking cigarettes, violence, “dirty talk,” references to the Bible and using God’s name in vain” then I suggest you start with The Bible. It goes against my religious beliefs, afterall.

“We went them to go after God,” said Glen Jalowy Jr., Grand Parkway Church youth minister. “We encourage them that what you put in your mind and heart is what comes out.”

Let’s see, they read The Bible and allowed it to control their lives and now they’ve become unreasonable and oblivious. By golly, I think the youth minister may be on to something here.