Gay characters no hit in kiddie lit; `The Trouble With Babies' is latest example

The Charlotte Observer (registration required) ^ | 1/4/03 | JOSH GETLIN - Los Angeles Times

[Criminal Number 18F]

At a time when gay culture is gaining wider acceptance in American society...

No, at a time when a narrow, urban, disproportionately gay elite is making wider attempts to force-feed gay culture to an unwelcoming American society...

I mean, if gay culture was gaining wider acceptance, this writer wouldn't be having such great trouble selling her crummy book, now would she?

Apparently she feels entitled to commercial success. People should be compelled to buy her books, whatever sort of countercultural message she includes, 'cause she needs the money for her three kids. (I'd say, "Where's their Daddy?" but considering the subject matter, he's probably in the utensils drawer: the turkey-baster).

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Criminal Number 18F]

Either that, or get smart and use the clue that the marketplace has just handed you.

That's the thing about the marketplace, if you reject the clues it gently proffers, it then forms the clue matter into a giant clue-by-four and beats the snot out of you.

d.o.l.

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[Triple Word Score]

Well, if they want to be "married" they have to stop THIS!!!!!

[Criminal Number 18F]

I'm going to write a kid's book called "Mohammed has 20 Mommies"

Oh, we could have fun with this. How 'bout Mohammed's mommy has a cold wet nose?

d.o.l.

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[little jeremiah]

A noted homosexual spokesman and activist named Michaelangelo Signorile who sometimes writes for the NYT made a statement (I'll try to find it one of the days so I have it verbatim) something like this:

Homosexuals do not want marriage because they interested in being "married", since extremeism in sexual acts and numbers of partners is SOP. The sole reason for pushing for "gay" marriage is to destroy the very meaning of marriage and family, to change the whole social fabric and destroy the moral standard. When the very concept of family and marriage is gone, then children can be educated about the glories of "gay" sex from any early age.

[Criminal Number 18F]

Thanks for explaining a little bit about how libraries buy books for kids (and I suppose, for the adult side of the library).

The library was a magical place when I was a child; I have probably never thought of this but your post reminded me how I come to be fortysomething and struggling with cataloging the thousands of books in my house. I owe this to my parents, to excellent schools (public, mostly) and to a succession of librarians whose names I don't remember. May God smile upon them all.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[Criminal Number 18F]

CatoRenasci....altered" (?) me almost 25 years ago about NAMBLA

truthandjustice1....I suspect you mean "alerted"

Perhaps your friend was looking for.... an "alter" boy?

d.o.l.

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[Criminal Number 18F]

are you saying there are some who GET [HIV/AIDS] on purpose?

I dunno if that's what SamAdams76 was saying, but I can confirm that such behaviour has been recorded. It comes from seeking attention, wanting to be special -- and believing that medicine has beaten the virus.

Only problem for these confused (mostly very young) men is... medicine hasn't. So they have become infected with a fatal pathogen because it is chic in the "gay" community.

d.o.l.

Criminal Number 18F

[applemac_g4]

I'm going to write a kid's book called "Mohammed has 20 Mommies". ...good one!

[Houmatt]

I could not agree with you more.

I, however, have never really been sympathetic toward the homosexual agenda. Not only because of the reasons you already mentioned, but also because they...can't...seem...to...keep...their...hands...off...our...kids.

[sunshine state]

Thank you for your kind words. I truly love my job (most of the time!).

[Houmatt]

I hate to tell you this, but your cousin lied to you.

Everyone knows children raised in same-sex relationship households come out mentally and emotionally balanced.

(And in case you could not tell, I was being sarcastic.)

[Huber]

Actually, "Mohammed has three Gods" (that is the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit) would be better, ultra radical, and cut right to the heart of Islam.

I always thought it was three Persons, one God!

[Devil_Anse]

"Mohammed Has 20 Mommies"

You, sir, have given me my BEST LAUGH of the day!

So "Heather Has Two Mommies" is not gaining the acceptance hoped for? Hey, let's rewrite it as the story of a young muslim girl!! This could be really big...

[Devil_Anse]

homosexuals win victories where the elites make the decisions: courts, fashion, mass broadcast media and the like.

Generally speaking, I think you've got a point. BUT the homosexual activists did NOT win that U.S. Supreme Court case involving homosexuals as Boy Scout leaders. And because they did not win it, they proceeded to act like hate-filled FASCISTS, and are in fact still acting like FASCISTS.

I don't like fascists. I don't wish to tolerate them. Call me INTOLERANT.

[Devil_Anse]

The trouble with babies is, gay folks still have to order out to get them. (Tell those scientists to keep working!!)