#2777: Paul Dorr

Paul Dorr is the director of the Iowa-based drooling fundie hate group Rescue the Perishing (Dorr calls it a “crisis center and pro-life, pro-family movement”), which fortunately seems to be a rather small affair. Dorr himself, however, managed to gain some national attention for his book-burning event in 2018, when he burned a number of LGBTQ-themed library books because the “shameful and wicked” literature should not be read to children. Dorr carried out his book-burning to protest the annual Orange City, Iowa, Pride weekend, and the event accompanied by reading from a blog post titled, “May God And The Homosexuals of OC Pride Please Forgive Us!” in which he blames feminism, Hollywood, basketball, money, and sex-ed for “destroying children.”

 

“I have checked out, from the Orange City Library, several of the books targeting 4- and 5-year olds, which the drag queens will likely be reading to children here in Orange City this evening,” explained Dorr: “These copies, owned by the city of Orange City, Iowa, will not be part of those they get to read, as I am going to do what the German church leaders should have done in 1933. I am now going to burn these copies.” Precisely what he intended to convey with his reference to 1933 is somewhat unclear, but he did at least managed convey (redundantly) that Paul Dorr’s mind is a festering piece of rot.

 

Currently (2024), his website is largely dominated by rabid anti-vaccine misinformation and wild-eyed conspiracy theories, with links to Sherri Tenpenny and America’s Frontline Doctors, though there is of course plenty of anti-gay rants as well for those who go looking.

 

Diagnosis: Dingbat moron. But he is angry, and quite possibly dangerous to his immediate surroundings.