Penguins get march order (Missouri Family Values!)

[brooklynite]

SAVANNAH, Mo. - The children's book about potentially gender-bending Central Park Zoo penguins doesn't belong in the children's book section, Missouri library officials have decided.

The illustrated book, "And Tango Makes Three" by Peter Parnell and Justin Richardson, is based on the true story of male penguins named Roy and Silo who adopted an abandoned egg at the zoo in the late 1990s and raised the baby penguin.

The book was moved to the nonfiction section at public library branches in Savannah and St. Joseph in northwest Missouri after parents complained it had homosexual undertones.

Library official Barbara Read said that, while experts have found adoptions aren't unusual in the penguin world, moving the book to the nonfiction section would decrease the chance it would "blindside" readers.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/396850p-336384c.html
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Couldn't they just balance it with an inspiring story about "ex-gay" penguins who've found the Lord?

[murray hill farm]

1. LOL

"ex gay penquins who have found the lord" soooooooooooo funny!

[CottonBear]

2. That is absurd. What is wrong with those people?

Why aren't they happy that the baby penguin was succesfully hatched?

[xchrom]

3. help save jesusland!

it's under assault from gay penguins!

[Canuckistanian]

4. It's the Gay Penguin Agenda

Soon they'll be recruiting penguin chicks and spreading penguin AIDS.

This is a wake-up call for America and er... Antartica.

[TahitiNut]

5. Their agenda is to get everyone to attend the Black & White Ball.

:silly:

[bbernardini]

6. Can the big library association revoke her membership?

Seriously, she's going against everything they fight for.