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The School Board in
Conroe Texas banned Perfectly Normal: Changing Bodies, Growing Up, Sex & Sexual Health," by Robie H. Harris and illustrated by Michael Emberley because and this is a quoute That book tries to minimize or even negate that homosexuality is a problem," said County Judge Alan B. Sadler. "This is clearly a book for children about sexuality, and it clearly tries to steer the child toward being pro-homosexual or at least neutral."

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 00:18 (twenty-three years ago)

and banned book week is v. soon.

― anthony easton (anthony), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 00:19 (twenty-three years ago)

oh man. can we start a thread about high school sex ed?

― di smith (lucylurex), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 00:23 (twenty-three years ago)

Go start it di.

― Graham (graham), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 00:39 (twenty-three years ago)

There's also corporate censorship (or what amounts to it):
Can Your Boss Fire You for Your Political Beliefs? -from slate.com today. Sadly, it's all entirely legal.

― lyra (lyra), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 01:56 (twenty-three years ago)

It sounds a terribly boring book that no kids would want to read, except now perhaps it will sound dangerous and exciting and they will want to read it. This is called looking on the bright side. In fact it's appalling, and it's not even Mississippi, where you expect to find these arseholes.

― Martin Skidmore (Martin Skidmore), Wednesday, 4 September 2002 15:50 (twenty-three years ago)

i like the idea of being 'neutral' ! a book
steering you towards being neutral via
3 pages in 89 being about homosexuality -
classic.

― piscesboy, Friday, 6 September 2002 11:42 (twenty-three years ago)

Backwoods Texas = backwoods everywhere = RUN FOR YOUR LIVES!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 6 September 2002 11:56 (twenty-three years ago)

one year passes...

http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20031023/APN/310230935

― anthony easton (anthony), Monday, 27 October 2003 09:13 (twenty-one years ago)

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― Herbstmute (Wintermute), Monday, 27 October 2003 13:10 (twenty-one years ago)

and it's not even Mississippi, where you expect to find these arseholes.

Martin, if you go to Mississippi some day, you'll find that it's better than you think, and worse than you feared, but not in the least how you expected it to be.

― Skottie, Monday, 27 October 2003 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

nine months pass...

More DOJ follies... This time from http://www.boingboing.net/2004/08/03/ashcroft_orders_publ.html

The Justice Department is ordering public libraries to destroy certain books it has deemed not "appropriate for external use."

The Department of Justice has called for these five public documents, two of which are texts of federal statutes, to be removed from depository libraries and destroyed, making their content available only to those with access to a law office or law library.

The topics addressed in the named documents include information on how citizens can retrieve items that may have been confiscated by the government during an investigation. The documents to be removed and destroyed include: Civil and Criminal Forfeiture Procedure; Select Criminal Forfeiture Forms; Select Federal Asset Forfeiture Statutes; Asset forfeiture and money laundering resource directory; and Civil Asset Forfeiture Reform Act of 2000 (CAFRA).

Apparently the order was later rescinded. Still...

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Thursday, 5 August 2004 00:15 (twenty-one years ago)

five years pass...

Man named (blink)RANDY(/blink) praises the banning of dictionaries throughout a South-California school district after some kid found the definition of 0r4l s3x in there.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/25/oral-sex-dictionary-ban-us-schools?DSF

― StanM, Monday, 25 January 2010 19:57 (fifteen years ago)

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