Anti-Gay Challenge Issued to Kids’ Book About Marriage Equality in ...
The blog of a Colorado librarian documents the first challenge to a children's book about a gay wedding, and predicts, "I suspect the book will get a lot of challenges in 2008-2009."
In anticipation of future attacks on the book, the librarian, Jamie S. LaRue, adds in the July 14 posting to his blog, called Myliblog, "So I offer my response, purging the patron's name, for other librarians."
LaRue posted his long, thoughtful letter to the woman who wrote to challenge the inclusion of the book, Uncle Bobby's Wedding, by Sarah S. Brannen. The letter is consistently respectful in tone, but doesn't back down from stating LaRue's points: children's books are meant to address all sorts of things, including adult issues, everything from terrifying or sad topics like alcoholic parents, divorce, and death, to happier (but controversial) topics like marriage between two devoted people of the same gender.
Anti-Gay Challenge Issued to Kids' Book About Marriage Equality in ...
EDGE Boston -
In anticipation of future attacks on the book, the librarian, Jamie S. LaRue, adds in the July 14 posting to his blog, called Myliblog, "So I offer my response, purging the patron's name, for other librarians."
LaRue posted his long, thoughtful letter to the woman who wrote to challenge the inclusion of the book, Uncle Bobby's Wedding, by Sarah S. Brannen. The letter is consistently respectful in tone, but doesn't back down from stating LaRue's points: children's books are meant to address all sorts of things, including adult issues, everything from terrifying or sad topics like alcoholic parents, divorce, and death, to happier (but controversial) topics like marriage between two devoted people of the same gender.
Anti-Gay Challenge Issued to Kids' Book About Marriage Equality in ...
EDGE Boston -
posted by Tom Jackson @ Wednesday, July 16, 2008
3 Comments:
Not clear which side the librarian is on, but books like these are how you break down the total hatred of gay people by those who would make them untouchables. And those most opposed to gays are the same polluted minds or their descendants who hated Blacks and Jews in earlier times.
And these hatreds are totally opposite to the meaning of Jesus Life on Earth, a message of God's love for all his creations.
It amazes me how the most perverse of activities can be brought to the children under the guise of "adversity" and "alternate lifestyles" when the reality is these are just plain perversion. Nowhere in History have gays been allowed to marry. Not even ancient Rome allowed men to wed men. They recognized that marriage was a man/woman affair and left their perversions where they beolnged....outside the marriage bed. Leave the children out of your perverse games. Let the adults decide right and wrong for their own kids and leave your perverted agenda out of their lives.
While I disagree with most everything 'anonymous' said at 3:39am, I'll agree with two things; First, that people have a right to believe, and say, whatever they like, how ever ill-conceived I might find it, insofar as it doesn't harm another. Second, parents do need to teach their children, and it is not up to Mr/Ms anonymous, nor I, to tell them how they should do that. This means that it is also not justifiable to take tools away from allowing parents to teach their children the way they wish.
Anonymous seems to be under the delusion that because the book is available, that somehow means that it is being forced upon children. Also, Anonymous seems to imply that all parents would only want to teach their children according to his/her viewpoint.
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