CENSORSHIP! Right here in my home town...GRRRRRRR!
LIBRARIANS AND OTHER FREEDOM PROTECTING CITIZENS - U N I T E ! ! !
The following text is the article, verbatim, from The Advocate website. I'm putting the entire article here in case the newspaper link goes dead.
Lawmaker wants libraries to remove some children's books
By BRETT TROXLER
2theadvocate.com staff
From a report by WBRZ's Marvin McGraw marvin@wbrz.com
A state lawmaker has filed a resolution calling for the removal of books with "age inappropriate" material from the children's section of libraries.
The move by Rep. A.G. Crowe was prompted by a children's picture book, 'King and King,' which is a story about a queen mother who tries to introduce her son to potential princesses, but the prince instead prefers one of the women's brothers.
"It only goes through to the two kings meeting, and they get married. Then it ends," said Pabby Arnold of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
The book was pulled from the shelves when a parent complained. That complaint also prompted Crowe's resolution, which has drawn fire from the ACLU.
"Every library in the country has a due process procedure about which a citizen can complain about a book, about the placement of a book," said Al Shapiro of the ACLU.
A spokesman for EBR libraries defended the book, saying it's the libraries responsibility to have children's books that reflect all lifestyles and points of view.
As reported May 20 on WBRZ's 6 p.m. broadcast. If you have information or comments related to this story, e-mail them to news@wbrz.com.
Click here to return to story: http://2theadvocate.com/stories/052005/new_books001.shtml
read the article below. it speaks volumes for itself. i personally find any type of censorship very unsettling. first one book, then another, then a hundred more, then a thousand, until the only books left to read are the bible and "how to be a good citizen of a dictatorship". write the Louisiana congressmen about this issue, even if you're from out of state. this is yet another case of one person or one faction of people attempting to force their personal morals onto the rest of us. this must stop.
if you wish to take some action, click this Contacting the Congress link to find out who you should write to. just click on the state of Louisiana on the map to get a list of all our legislators.
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The following text is the article, verbatim, from The Advocate website. I'm putting the entire article here in case the newspaper link goes dead.
Lawmaker wants libraries to remove some children's books
By BRETT TROXLER
2theadvocate.com staff
From a report by WBRZ's Marvin McGraw marvin@wbrz.com
A state lawmaker has filed a resolution calling for the removal of books with "age inappropriate" material from the children's section of libraries.
The move by Rep. A.G. Crowe was prompted by a children's picture book, 'King and King,' which is a story about a queen mother who tries to introduce her son to potential princesses, but the prince instead prefers one of the women's brothers.
"It only goes through to the two kings meeting, and they get married. Then it ends," said Pabby Arnold of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library.
The book was pulled from the shelves when a parent complained. That complaint also prompted Crowe's resolution, which has drawn fire from the ACLU.
"Every library in the country has a due process procedure about which a citizen can complain about a book, about the placement of a book," said Al Shapiro of the ACLU.
A spokesman for EBR libraries defended the book, saying it's the libraries responsibility to have children's books that reflect all lifestyles and points of view.
As reported May 20 on WBRZ's 6 p.m. broadcast. If you have information or comments related to this story, e-mail them to news@wbrz.com.
Click here to return to story: http://2theadvocate.com/stories/052005/new_books001.shtml
posted by Drolar | 5/24/2005 08:22:00 PM
7 Comments:
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if i read and remember correctly, this bill was defeated, but only by 1 vote. yikes.
-ken
yes. this is getting ridiculous. if something doesn't radically change by 2008 i'm not sure what we'll be forced to do -- either out of desperation or because the conservative lawmakers further lessen our freedoms.
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