Friday, November 6, 2009

Unsuited to age group

I missed Banned Books Week! It was Sept. 26 to Oct. 3 this year. As it does every year it celebrates the First Amendment by listing the books that are most frequently challenged in our nation's libraries. Mark Twain and his Huck Finn didn't make the list this year. At the top was And Tango Makes Three about gay penguins. Of the books in the top 10, six were deemed sexually explicit, three promote homosexuality, and seven are "unsuited to age group" (yes, all books had multiple reasons). A commenter says that Fundies are now doing things differently. Instead of (or perhaps in addition to) challenging a book, they simply steal it.

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