Principal who banned gay books charged with child pornography

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“As I said to some friends last night when I got the news, ‘You can’t make this sh-- up,'" one of the authors whose books were banned said.

Nov. 13, 2019, 2:05 PM EST
By Gwen Aviles

A former Kentucky school principal has been indicted on child pornography charges, a decade after he first made headlines for banning books with LGBTQ storylines.

Phillip Todd Wilson, the former principal of the Clark County Area Technology Center in Winchester, Kentucky, was charged with 17 child pornography and distribution charges in August, according to Kentucky state police.

A spokesperson for the Kentucky Department of Education told NBC News that Wilson was no longer employed at the school.

Wilson, 54, was the principal of the Montgomery County High School, another institution in Kentucky, 10 years ago when he banded together with other administrators to remove several young-adult novels that had been listed as optional reading in English classes. Wilson fought to ban books with “homosexual content," as well as those that mentioned drugs, sex, child abuse and suicide, because he deemed these topics “inappropriate” for students, according to a 2009 article from The Lexington Herald-Leader.

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https://www.nbcnews.com/feature/nbc-out/principal-who-banned-gay-books-charged-child-pornography-n1081461

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I can just imagine who he voted for in 2016.

[nycbos]

1. I am shocked SHOCKED to find gambling on here.

[BuffaloJackalope]

2. because, of course ...

[badseedboy]

3. This sort of projection

pattern is so well-proven, if only by the sheer number of stories that make it to the mainstream. What should be the early response to these homophobic felons?

[AllaN01Bear]

4. he who yells the loudest has something to hide . always. always.

[MFGsunny]

5. That's EXACTLY how pathology works.

Sick, authoritarian, holier-than-thou fugggggs.

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6. This headline is not even surprising any longer.

Sheesh.

[Afromania]

7. Everytime, every.. single... time