If you read the article, a book about two male penguins from New Yorks zoo decide to adopt a fertilized baby penguin egg and raise it on their own. The book is now "available to be checked out of the school's library in this 11,000-resident town 20 miles east of St. Louis — tackles topics their children aren't ready to handle. Some parents' request: Move the book to the library's regular shelves and restrict it to a section for mature issues, perhaps even requiring parental permission before a child can check it out."
I believe this is a good and reasonable request. You're not banning a book, and you're not shoving it in other people's faces. I think what they are asking is fine. Honestly, I don't think kids will get the homosexual undertones, but it is a little obvious. I am happy that they aren't banning the book like they would over here where I live.
What do you think? Would you let your child read this? Would you ban it?
The book is called And the Tango Makes Three, which I personally find cute. I mean it is a kids book... that's a great title for one.
Take away violence in cartoons and kids become more violent.
Take away cookies from the Cookie Monster and are kids are still obese.
Take away any sign of homosexuality from a child's eyes, and homosexuality will be a brand new wonder when they finally discover it.
We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities ; Oscar Wilde
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I don't see why it should be moved to the adult section. If it indeed a children's book than I believe I can safely assume that there aren't any pictures and discriptions of sex, and that's the only excuse I can come up with to restrict "homosexual content". There are hundreds of children's books about a male and female (most definately some penguins) raising a child, I don't see why this one should be treated any differently. It can only make kids more tolerant.
It contains neither adult langugage nor images, and the story is based on a real situation. There is no more reason to restrict this book than there is to depict ANY children's book that focuses on the lives of real families.
The objection to this book is religoiusly motivated, and the government is not a tool for people to prevent people from being exposed to ideas that contradict their religous opinions, or to obscure the existence of real situations that uncomfortable contradict their mythological illusions about the way the world "should" be.
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