Parents in Illinois community want gay penguin book blocked

[Homo Erectus]

The religious right comes to the rescue again:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...45.story?coll=chi-news-hed&ctrack=1&cset=true

 

[papasmerf]

For parents to object to books proclaiming gay as good, need not be be religious people. You need to realize that not being religious does not mean a person is for every thing goes in the world.

 

[ig-88]

Well, there is such a thing as the First Amendment.

Banning books ... hmm, didn't the Brown Shirts do that?

Don't like it, don't buy it. It's that simple.

 

[papasmerf]

Well, there is such a thing as the First Amendment.

Banning books ... hmm, didn't the Brown Shirts do that?

Don't like it, don't buy it. It's that simple.

Good point.

So you would welcome a book such as the Bible to be required reading in school???

Maybe you would not object to "The Art of War" becoming required reading.

Hiding behind the First Amendment in this case silences you on other books.

 

[Cobster]

Banning books and forcing them to be read (or in other words, made part of the curriculum) in schools are two very different things.

 

[papasmerf]

Banning books and forcing them to be read (or in other words, made part of the curriculum) in schools are two very different things.

The question is if a community decides a book should not be brought into a schools library system is that banning?????

I know many schools in the US have moved to remove Huck Finn from the shelves because of the language used in it. The argument that the terms used within its pages were the vernacular of the time. Still moves have been made to ban it.