Faith leaders denounce US book burning as hate-fuelled intimidation

Interfaith group responds after books on Black, Jewish and LGBTQ+ history were burned and shared in racist video

A group of faith leaders in Ohio denounced a recent alleged hate crime in the state, in which a man burned books belonging to a public library. The destroyed books were on Jewish, African American and LGBTQ+ history.

Unfortunately, this is one of those things that's, like, I'm shocked, but not surprised, every time it happens," Rev Ryan Wallace of Fairmount Presbyterian told the Guardian in an interview. We need to not get complacent. Every time it happens, we have to be there to say, this is unacceptable.'"