Librarians Against Censorship?
by L. Brent Bozell
The American Library Association (ALA) has released its annual survey of offenses to "intellectual freedom," the books whose place in public schools and public libraries is the most "challenged" by the public. Leading that list for the second straight year is the children's book "And Tango Makes Three," about a penguin family with two daddies.
Several books on the ALA list are perennially controversial, from "Huckleberry Finn" with its racial iss ...
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Posted by: Scot Penslar
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Fri May 9, 2008 10:52 PM
Does Mr. Bozell honestly think a book titled "A Parent's Guide to Preventing Homosexuality" ought to be taken seriously in this day and age? I imagine such a book probably rehashes the same old quasi-Freudian theories that have been discredited for decades now -- for example, that homosexuality in males is the result of growing up with domineering mother and a weak or absent father. Hell, if that were true, half the men in this country would be gay.
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Posted by: RNJ
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Fri May 9, 2008 5:42 AM
I have read this article, and I want to agree with it. I want to be sure that libraries offer reading material from all perspectives, even if they are contrary (even repulsive) to my own beliefs. I suspect that Mr. Bozell is correct in his assertion that librarians tend to exclude some books from their collections, and that I should be outraged by this action. Unfortunately, I am unable to find any specific examples in his article, so I am forced to consider this an unsupported argument.
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