Signorile Column about hysteria over King & King children's book

[Democrats_win]

One of the networks is even taling about this.

http://365gay.com/opinion/Gist/Gist.htm

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“You know, what’s happening in our society today is that we are becoming so open-minded, our brains are falling out,” Oklahoma Republican state legislator Sally Kern recently opined.

“We need to use common sense and discretion.” She was talking about the danger of children’s books like King and King – about two princes in a far away kingdom who meet and fall in love – a book Kern saw as so treacherous that it prompted her to spearhead a resolution in Oklahoma that would remove all books that “promote” homosexuality from the children’s section of Okalahoma libraries.

Kern surely also finds horrifying books like the just-published and adorable And Tango Makes Three , all about two lovesick male penguins who sit on an adopted egg, hatch it and raise their own chick (a true story about Roy and Silo in the Central Park Zoo in Manhattan). And certainly Sally Kern is targeting books like The Buffalo Tree , a novel for young adults that deals with homosexuality and has been banned in the school district of Muhlenberg , Pennsylvania , removed from the curriculum after a crusade by Christian conservatives.

Actually, three were over 550 books banned or removed from school districts or libraries in the United States in 2004 by religious zealots, according to Judith Krug of the American Library Association. And that was up about 20% from the previous year. Krug says the ALA has been able to correlate the rise in the banning of books with the rise of conservative political climates in this country....

[Maat]

1. Wow.

I took them down. I'm going to order them and read them to my daughter.

We already watched the "Postcards from Buster Episode:" "Sugartime."

[RedXIII]

2. back in the 1987 i....

tried to check a book called Zork the forces of Krill but the librarian wouldn't allow me to check it out because of the themes dealing with the occult.

[RedXIII]

3. bump

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