Laura Lopez wants to ban 80 books from her son's high school library. She based her decision on a simple key word search. If the book contained references to abortion, homosexuality or atheism, it was added to the list. She has not even read the books herself. How stupid is that?
She targets literary genres ranging from reference books to short stories. Among the books she wants removed are "Medical Ethics: Moral and Legal Conflicts in Health Care," "Warriors of God: Richard the Lionhearted and Saladin in the Third Crusade," "Coping When a Parent is Gay" and "The Cider House Rules," a John Irving novel about a rural doctor who runs an orphanage and performs illegal abortions.
Lopez is not only a fundie, she might be simple too. The school board has a process to follow when a book contain objectionable content. Instead of following the process, Lopez chose to ape the language of her fundie masters.
In her objection to "Am I Blue?: Coming out from the Silence," a collection of 18 short stories about gay and lesbian issues, Lopez wrote: "God made Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve, and not Eve and Sue."
It looks like common sense will win out. Lopez goes before the full school board next, she has little chance of winning.
5 comments:
"I think you should leave it up to the parent, because not all parents want
to keep their children totally ignorant." -- Frank Zappa
Parents are should be the first to decide if the book their child brings home is suitable for them.
that woman should be banned with any books she bans as well... Why are people such a waste of oxygen sometimes?
"Where they have burned books,
they will end in burning human beings." -- Heinrich Heine
Yep, that's stupid. People like that interfere with our right of choice. Guess what? We can choose not to read a book if we disagree with it. It's like kicking a kid out of a white school for being black. Idiots.
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