Dorr has pleaded not guilty. According to media reports, Dorr claims that his criminal charge should be dismissed as it violates his Equal Protection Rights and his First Amendment Rights under the U.S. Constitution. He's also upset that Orange City has never criminally charged anyone for failing to return or for damaging any library books.
Then again, he's probably the first person to damage any of Orange City's library books while live-streaming on Facebook!
Meanwhile, KIWA Radio published a press release by Paul Dorr a few days ago:
Paul R. Dorr filed his memorandum and motion yesterday (and amended/clarified today) asking Magistrate Judge Lisa Mazurek to Dismiss the 5th Degree Criminal Mischief charge against me brought by the city of Orange City, Iowa.
The city fathers have sat silent, the college and “Christian” High school sit silent, or worse. And the pulpits and elders of Reformed Christian churches in Orange City, particularly one that holds itself out to be one of the most conservative churches in the city being formed in the mid-1990s, have all been indifferent in the public square while the God they say they worship is being blasphemed. As David proclaimed in 1 Samuel 17: 29, “What have I done now? Is there not a cause?” There is a cause and I cannot sit silent while many in the filthy homosexual movement work to destroy the lives of little Christian children in Orange City by pushing such books in front of them. These are little children who have no ability to discern the evil teaching in the books.
Those promoting the trans-gender agenda are bigoted and intolerant and wish to pass their worldview and filthy practices on to the local children of what had been known to be a religiously ‘conservative’ community. I used to live in Orange City and I graduated from Unity Christian High School there in the community. One can safely conclude from the findings of the American College of Pediatricians, that the city officials of Orange City (particularly those serving on the Library Board) are promoting child abuse.
The Orange City Library Board should be ashamed of themselves. The City Council should be ashamed of themselves. And the board of my Alma’ Mater, Unity Christian High School, should all resign after they adopted a very tolerant view of the myth of ‘homosexualism’, aka homosexual orientation for their student policy handbook. But mostly, the elders and pastors of local churches should be ashamed of themselves for their silence, or worse!
Those who claim to be Christians should heed the warning of Psalm 32:3-4, “When I kept silent, my bones grew old Through my groaning all the day long. For day and night Your hand was heavy upon me; My vitality was turned into the drought of summer.” These God-ordained office-holders need to repent. Failing that, they need to be replaced with men who will fight with the heart/faith of David against the Goliath of our day – that is, the sexual revolutionaries bent on destroying our civilization. I’ve been saying this for 30 years and they’ve always come up with an excuse for their sinful silence. And it gets worse by the year. Though God is long-suffering the Bible and church history are replete with examples of when His patience runs out. I fear we are close. Yet, silence still sacrifices up the next generation of young to this sexual tyranny.
Meanwhile, see some quotes from the closing narrative from my Memorandum filed in court yesterday.
“Dorr was charged with criminal mischief in the fifth degree because of his protest and because he published the protest. He filmed himself burning the books, and then posted the video to the internet and Facebook to publish his message, to encourage public discourse in the marketplace of ideas. In his effort to raise awareness on his side of an issue, the Library ignored its procedural policies and the police responded to the public outcry for prosecution by criminally charging Mr. Dorr. Likewise, Orange City ignored Iowa Code § 714.5, which allows for “arrangements [to] be made to make a monetary settlement.”
Instead, Mr. Dorr was treated unlike other library patrons who had not returned books, and but for his public protest, Mr. Dorr literally had “the book thrown at him” to teach him a lesson. But, what lesson? That the Library can avoid its procedural policy in lieu of protected First Amendment rights? That people can be treated unequally for non-returned books?
As noted before, if Mr. Dorr had protested in silence and destroyed the books yet the, books had been paid for, would he have been prosecuted? He still would be exercising his First Amendment rights. Regardless, the answer would be “no.” The only interceding fact in this case was his published protest. The Library ignored its policies and the police charge was selectively based upon nothing more than an act of protected First Amendment activities.”Dorr's jury trial is scheduled for 9:00 AM on August 6, 2019, at the Sioux County Courthouse.