Gaines and Robertson recall library employees intentionally making loud noises, blaring music, banging books, and kicking cabinets, to disrupt the session. They assert that the noises were clearly “excessive and intentional.”
Robertson went as far as suggesting HPL Director Allan Morales had been purposefully trying to sabotage the event once he realized the extent of Cameron’s Christian conservative beliefs. On the Unashamed with Phil & Jase Robertson podcast, Robertson said, “He started a campaign in the community to shut the event down without officially canceling it because then he knew that it wouldn’t be good for their library.”
Cameron himself felt that Morales was speaking far too loudly at promotional filming sessions as well. In the midst of rising tensions (including bomb threats) leading up to the event, the Sumner County Library board voted 4-3 to fire the director. Mayor John Isbell acknowledged that the dismissal was related to the Kirk Cameron event.