TangognaT

Agent Of L.I.B.R.A.R.Y.

March 16th, 2006 at 11:14 pm

Book “Segregation” in Oklahoma

Here’s an LISNews article about a recent bill in Oklahoma that proposes to pull books with “homosexual” and “sexually explicit” content from kids and YA book collections. This seems a little nutty to me, if the bill passes a panel will be appointed that will select the sequestered books? And I love the quote from the sponsor of the bill, that “the American Library Association is out to sexualize our children.”

Amanda
10:34 am on March 17th, 2006 1
Sadly, this doesn’t surprise me one little bit. I’m only surprised that they’re specifying children’s and YA books. Alabama tried to do the same thing but across the board.
Ragnell
7:22 am on March 18th, 2006 2
I hate living in that state.
Nat
7:28 am on March 18th, 2006 3
They can now find copies of Library Journal behind the counter at 7-11.
tangognat
9:22 am on March 18th, 2006 4
And they have to cover American Libraries with a brown paper wrapper.
lgf
8:38 pm on March 18th, 2006 5
So let’s see. In “the land of the free,” one can’t read in Oklahoma, abort in South Dakota, smoke in public in Chicago, buy liquor by the drink in (parts of?) Utah, or say any of this in public in Kansas, lest one be considered unpatriotic. And one of the “hot button” issues in the Illinois primary on Tuesday is whether the kids of illegal immigrants should be allowed to go to school.