What's going to happen when Progressives run out of books to burn?
Palin continued to inject religious beliefs into her policy at times. "She asked the library how she could go about banning books," he says, because some voters thought they had inappropriate language in them. "The librarian was aghast."
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Dipshit, that's not us. That's you guys. And you know it.
Lawmaker wants Morrison book off Ala. reading list
Here are just some of the books that made the American Library Associations of Banned or Challenged books from over a six-year period of time (2008-2013), and the reason for the ban or challenge.
2013 *Captain Underpants (series), by Dav Pilkey. Reasons: Offensive language, unsuited for age group, violence *The Hunger Games, by Suzanne Collins. Reasons: Religious viewpoint, unsuited to age group
2012 *The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, by Sherman Alexie. Reasons: Offensive language, racism, sexually explicit, unsuited for age group *Beloved, by Toni Morrison. Reasons: Sexually explicit, religious viewpoint, violence
2011 *Brave New World, by Aldous Huxley. Reasons: insensitivity; nudity; racism; religious viewpoint; sexually explicit *To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee. Reasons: offensive language; racism
2010 *Nickel and Dimed, by Barbara Ehrenreich. Reasons: drugs, inaccurate, offensive language, political viewpoint, and religious viewpoint *Twilight, by Stephenie Meyer. Reasons: religious viewpoint and violence
2009 *The Color Purple, by Alice Walker. Reasons: offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group *The Chocolate War, by Robert Cormier. Reasons: nudity, offensive language, sexually explicit, unsuited to age group (this is one of our son’s favorite books)
2008 *Scary Stories (series), by Alvin Schwartz. Reasons: occult/satanism, religious viewpoint, and violence *And Tango Makes Three, by Justin Richardson and Peter Parnell. Reasons: anti-ethnic, anti-family, homosexuality, religious viewpoint, and unsuited to age group
The list goes on. In 2007, The Golden Compass made the list; the reason given was “religious viewpoint.” Religious viewpoint. It is most likely that Senator Pilcher-Cook is a fundamentalist Christian, as are many other conservative Republicans. This means any book that does not conform to their viewpoint could be “deemed harmful.”
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The way you guys lie all the time. If you knew how to look stuff up on the Internet, would you still lie?