Posted 8/27/2002 10:25:00 AM by Douglas

What every happened to Heather Has Two Mommies?? Well, I for one am glad to see more of this sort of thing going on in small communities. Especially right before a $10 Million bond issue.

This is what doesn't make any sense: this book made the School Library Journal's "Book of the Year" in its category in 1994, while also being number 13 on the American Library Association's list of "most challenged" books in the country since 1990. How does it end up on both lists at the same time?

I also have a problem with the ALA's assessment of what a "banned" book is. They say "A banning is the "removal of those materials"

If Stalin, Hitler, or G.W. Bush is using State power to keep subversive literature (whatever that means) out of the hands of it's citizenry, THAT'S banning a book. A community removing any text from a community library because the community finds it offensive, that's not banning.

That's not even censorship.

Anyone with $8.79 can buy that book and read it all the live-long day to their kids and anyone within earshot. It's not banned because the community doesn't want to use their tax dollars to buy it. And don't give me any of that crap about "poor people can't afford books, so you're just banning it among the poor."

I can't afford a Ferrari. Does that mean the State has banned them by not providing me with one simply because it's outside my financial means?