Posted on 11/17/2006 3:29:42 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
SHILOH, Ill. - A picture book about two male penguins raising a baby penguin is getting a chilly reception among some parents who worry about the book's availability to children - and the reluctance of school administrators to restrict access to it.
The concerns are the latest involving "And Tango Makes Three," the illustrated children's book based on a true story of two male penguins in New York City's Central Park Zoo that adopted a fertilized egg and raised the chick as their own.
Complaining about the book's homosexual undertones, some parents of Shiloh Elementary School students believe the book - available to be checked out of the school's library in this 11,000-resident town 20 miles east of St. Louis - tackles topics their children aren't ready to handle.
Their request: Move the book to the library's regular shelves and restrict it to a section for mature issues, perhaps even requiring parental permission before a child can check it out.
For now, "And Tango Makes Three" will stay put, said school district Superintendent Jennifer Filyaw, though a panel she appointed suggested the book be moved and require parental permission to be checked out. The district's attorney said moving it might be construed as censorship.
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that should read "books don't have genders"
And this book has much more to do with "Three Men and a Baby" than "Adam & Steve," although I get the feeling that those who attempt to impart a lesson from the book will not keep this in mind.
Homosexuality is a fetish... animals don't have fetishes...
This indoctrination would make Joseph Goebbels proud !
"And putting pressure on libraries for political reasons just makes the side doing ity look bad."
You are suggesting that it was NOT politics that got the book placed on the library shelves to begin with. That is doubtful. No, that is not believable.
For a reality check of why this book was written, you should check out its page on Amazon.com.
People interested in the book also bought "King and King", a story about a prince who decides he doesn't want a princess, and marries another prince, instead.
They also bought "The Sissy Duckling", a book about an obviously gay duckling.
We are all grownups, here. This isn't really a book about penguins.
If that's true, I don't see how it has any bearing on whether its a sin for two male humans to have sex. The bible still says what its a sin, two birds aren't gonna change what the bible says.
It's a problem because homosexual advocates have used the story behind these two penguins as proof and reason that their perversion should be embraced as normal and natural. Why don't they tell the rest of the story..about how one of these two penguins left the other for a female.
>>Maybe I'm missing something here
Check out this link on the book and its teaching guide. From the link:<<
From that excerpt it sure does sound like the teaching guide has an agenda. Changing the teaching guide is a different issue than rstricting or banning a book from a school library.
For example, I went to a very conservative private high school. We read the Communist manifesto so that we could understand America's opposition and see the weaknesses in Marx's arguments. A different way of teaching that book could have been innappropriate.
Me : If that's true, I don't see how it has any bearing on whether its a sin for two male humans to have sex. The bible still says what its a sin, two birds aren't gonna change what the bible says.
CAPTAINSUPERMARVELMAN: It's a problem because homosexual advocates have used the story behind these two penguins as proof and reason that their perversion should be embraced as normal and natural. Why don't they tell the rest of the story..about how one of these two penguins left the other for a female.
Well if you ban all the other books then the devil will quote scripture for his own ends... It sounds like the problem here is in the teaching not what books are available.
>>You are suggesting that it was NOT politics that got the book placed on the library shelves to begin with. That is doubtful. No, that is not believable.<<
I have no idea how popular the book is or what method of selection was used - the story doesnt go into that.
Don't you ever get tired of trolling?
No. 2 gives you the real story behind this book. We're to accept ALL kinds of families, not just a mommy and a daddy. Hmm, sound familiar?
There is a real simple explanation for this “Children’s book”. Gays and lesbians have no way to reproduce naturally. Homosexuality is a genetic dead end, and IMHO should be allowed to die a natural death.
All religions and Darwin agree that it takes a male, and female to reproduce.
Those who try to “teach” homosexuality to the young are admitting by their actions that it is a disorder that has to be taught.
Homosexuality has no basis in logic.
Homosexuality has no basis in religion.
Homosexuality is a parasite on religious and scientific societies.
This children’s book should be available to all the natural children of homosexuals in a same sex union. Anything else is discrimination.
Flame away, but be prepared for a logical response to illogic, and emotion.
You really needed to use a </sarc> tag. I thought you had lost your mind!
You think that it is "insane" my comment that humans could learn correct behavior from "gay" penguins who leave each other to mate with females? These penguins are not as "gay" as the authors of the book want to make you believe.
Yes.
Homosexuality is largely an early childhood development disorder, why is it so hard for people to understand that NOTHING pertaining to any sexuality should be introduced to young children, even for the sake of (barf) diversity.
>>Don't you ever get tired of trolling?<<
Since you never seem to have anything constructive to say except on those rare occasions when you do good original research and the rest of your posting seems to be an endless series of seeking conflict after conflict and/or blog pimping I would prefer you not post to me.
I can read your blog and and pick out the good stuff.
"Maybe I'm missing something here ...do two male animals, in this case, penguin's sometimes care for an egg and/or young? If so I can see the interest in a having a book about it and don';t see why it should be censored or restricted/ "
Yes they do. The reason the book has caused an uproar, is the way it is present "they must be in love" in one passage in the book, implying they are homosexual, and not acting on normal instinct which is males raising the young.
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