Homophobic Kentucky Principal Who Banned LGBTQ Books Just Arrested For, You Guessed It…

Clark County Detention Center

Ten years ago a Kentucky high school principal named Phillip Todd Wilson passionately championed for the removal of books including LGBTQ content from an optional reading list provided to English students. Now he's under indictment for seventeen counts of kiddie porn. Sunrise sunset.

Wilson not only targeted books with LGBTQ content, but also ones including a range of themes from drugs to suicide to, hm, child abuse. The story of a homophobe harboring furked urp sexual desires is one as old as time, and what's really crazy is that Wilson diligently worked to deny valuable resources to high schoolers, while he himself obviously would have benefited from a healthier understanding of sexuality. And like, the law. And like, human decency.

The books Wilson banned a decade ago include Twisted by Laurie Halse Anderson, Deadline by Chris Crutcher, Lessons from a Dead Girl by Jo Knowles and Unwind by Neal Shusterman, and when informed of Wilson's arrest, the author Knowles literally stated:

You can’t make this shit up.

Time and time again we've learned that people as outwardly homophobic as Todd Wilson genuinely are some of the scariest people around. He had the nerve to police high schoolers' sexuality while he himself was engaging in deplorable behavior. I mean, what else is there to say? Piece. Of. Shit.