Here we go again
Sort of old news, but worth rehashing for the sake of completeness:
- Broadminded school council members are still trying to ban books.
The titles on [board member Laura] Pinney's list are "Beloved" by Toni Morrison, "Slaughterhouse-Five" by Kurt Vonnegut, "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, "The Awakening" by Kate Chopin, "Freakonomics" by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner, "The Botany of Desire: A Plant's-Eye View of the World" by Michael Pollan, "The Perks of Being a Wallflower" by Stephen Chbosky, "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers and "How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents" by Julia Alvarez.Thankfully, since this story broke, Pinney has gone away, having been exposed as the moron she is. The fact that she hadn't actually read the books probably didn't help her cause much, which is about as bad as Bob Doyle trying to ban Natural Born Killers without having seen it.
Sigh...
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There's an interesting comment at a conservative-leaning blog which lists practically every instance of sexual decadence to be found in the Bible, in an attempt to try to balance the scales.
But the thing is... if you're looking for what you think is evil, you can find it anywhere, be it the Bible or Toni Morrison or Dan Brown or whatever. That part is a given, especially with the types of people that would rather burn books and deny the existence of things which run counter to their beliefs, instead of trying to understand or embrace them.
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