Books that have sparked fierce battles in Texas schools over sexually explicit content are available through the library of the Austin church where Democrat U.S. Senate candidate James Talarico both attends and preaches. An online catalog for St. Andrew’s Presbyterian Church includes titles such as “Gender Queer,” “All Boys Aren’t Blue, This Book Is Gay,” and “Me and Earl and the Dying Girl”—books critics have argued contain graphic sexual content inappropriate for minors. [More]
Cue indignant outrage from the same people who want to ban Mark Twain and Harper Lee.
[Via Sweet Babboo]
Democrats say that Republicans want to ban books. And that is 100% Gospel truth. Republicans want to ban books. But hand the average Democrat a copy of “Justine” by the Marquis de Sade, a copy of “The Story of O” by Pauline Reage (a pen name used by French writer Anne Desclos), and a copy of “The Image” by Jean de Berg (a pen name used by French writer Catherine Robbe-Grillet) and you will quickly find that Democrats want to ban books too. Any one of those three titles make “Fifty Shades of Grey” seem like a Sunday school pamphlet. But beware of flying pearls. Those strings can bear only so much clutching without launching their contents.
Before you start screaming about porn, be advised that all three are considered classics of literature and have been made into movies and, (horrors!) even into TV shows/series.
But first a warning. Read any of them, or maybe read all three and it is quite likely you will, as a result, become a book banner as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justine_(de_Sade_novel)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Story_of_O
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Image_(novel)
In the interest of full disclosure, I own copies of all three but would not want to see them in any public library, much less in any school library. So I am also in favor of banning books.
My point is not that we want to ban books. I’m pretty sure most, if not all, of us want to ban books. The issue is which books should be banned, from which places, and perhaps most importantly, who gets to choose?